Viagra is Elvis in pill form: Sexy yet safe, maker of corporate millions, the undisputed king. Doctors have scribbled 133 million Viagra prescriptions since Pfizer launched the pill in 1998, and sales in 2002 alone reached $1.7 billion. So it’s no surprise that other companies want a slice of the impotence pie. There’s an anti-impotence nasal spray in the works, and candy maker Wrigley recently received a patent for anti-impotence gum. (Don’t rush to the vending machine just yet: It’s years away.) The biggest developments are two new Viagra-like pills—Bayer’s and GlaxoSmithKline’s Levitra (vardenafil), approved by the FDA in August, and Eli Lilly’s Cialis (tadalafil), which is close to being on the market. Drug companies are also feverishly developing treatments for the estimated 43 percent of women who suffer some degree of sexual dysfunction (in fact, one of the most promising treatments for women is—surprise!—Viagra).
Posted by lifedoneright Japan’s Middle-Aged Men Start to Preen
June 10, 2005But you won’t find many chiseled features on the faces of these models — instead of young turks in their prime, the men strutting before the crowd are whispy-haired company executives in their 50s or older.
After decades of lavishing clothes, cosmetics and accessories on free-spending young women, Japan’s billion-dollar vanity industry has discovered the consumer of the future: the middle-aged man.
By JOSEPH COLEMAN
Associated Press Writer
June 10, 2005
Via Newsday
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Posted by lifedoneright Later life love – starting again at 50+
May 11, 2005A young couple starting life together may imagine their relationship will get easier as they age. But the reality can be rather different.
Relationships which have held together through the strains of raising a family and coping with work commitments can break down when faced with the new stresses of an ‘empty nest’ and adjusting to retirement.
At the age of 70 she may have thought her days of being romanced by Hollywood heart-throbs were behind her
May 4, 2005But Dame Eileen Atkins says Colin Farrell – some 42 years her junior – spent more than two hours trying to seduce her.
Dame Eileen, one of the creators of the classic television series Upstairs Downstairs, revealed in an interview yesterday that she was propositioned by the actor just a few months ago.
The sex lives of empty nesters are just great — until the kids move back in
April 20, 2005Twentysomethings who live with their parents love to complain about their lack of freedom — they can’t bring home dates or have sex in their rooms. But as more college graduates move back home, it is just as often the parents who resent having to sneak around. After eighteen-plus years of having to wait until the kids are asleep or away, these empty nesters can finally do it whenever, wherever, and as often as they please. But when the kids move back in, the second honeymoon is cut short, and the parents go back to their old, furtive ways, confined to nights and mornings, when many don’t have the energy. It seems the boomerangs have interrupted the boomers’ boom-boom.
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By Amy Sohn
New York Magazine, April 18, 2005
To be a gentleman host, you must be over 50, a good dancer… and single
April 13, 2005His job is to seek out the divorcees, widows and elderly singletons on the passenger list and offer them his time as a dinner companion or dance floor partner.
Fifth annual Monessen Senior Citizens Prom
April 12, 2005Nearly six decades later, George and Dolores Chuprinko still recall the fun they had at their proms at Monessen High School in 1947 and 1948.
“We even cheated and went in 1949,” Dolores Chuprinko said with a giggle in her voice.
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By Chris Buckley
VALLEY INDEPENDENT
Saturday, April 9, 2005
