I live in Thailand and the topic of Viagra comes up pretty regularly on the Thailand board.
There are a couple of responses that always irk me a tad.
1)" I have never felt the need to try as mine is always rock hard". I feel like saying is that the first time that night or the second or third and how many days a week? To my mind anyone who has not experimented with this, even if just for recreational uses, lacks adventure and curiosity.
2) "Never take anything but Pfizer Viagra all the rest are fakes". Not true at all. Pfizer work hard in Asia to try and get people to buy their expensive Viagra but everyone I know uses Indian Generics of Sildenafil Citrate which works exactly the same for a fraction of the cost.
I currently buy 12 x 100 mg for about US$26 and that is for Kamagra. A friend in the north goes to Burma/Myanmar occasionally and can get 12 for about US$8.
As I only usually use a quarter at a time it's pretty cheap - I think I spend more on Millenium lube!
When one looks at these prices, who would not agree that Pfizer are making a fortune out of Viagra. It's not that they spent anything serious developing it as it was an accidental side effect of a heart drug being developed in the UK.
The Indian Pharmaceutical Industry is very good. They have patent laws which say you cannot patent a chemical but you can patent a process. This has a certain logic. They sell tons of HIV/Aids drugs to Africa at costs below production and have helped force the Western Pharmaceutical companies reduce their prices to keep people alive.
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