28 May 2005

Going Blind?

On the one hand, sex manuals are becoming racier. Or, at least, more slang-filled. The new edition of The Joy of Sex—back in my college days, there was at least a 40% chance that any given room in the dorm was home to a copy—is apparently even less restrained. (I have a teenaged kid; thus, I'm not in a position to review it. Puns intended.)

On (in?) the other hand, the FDA is now looking into a potential side-effect of many anti-impotence drugs: blindness. And here I thought that those drugs were supposed to help reduce reliance on other "blindness-causing" behavior…