Firstmed Blog

I was reading an article about, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire host, Chris Tarrant’s messy divorce in the Daily Mail today and it struck me how the concept of Viagra is still sensationalist new fodder, even after all these years.

The article entitled Violence, Viagra and the truth about the war of the Tarrants, describes how revelations regarding Chris’s use of the ‘magic blue pill’ had been made public by his estranged wife.

She went into excruciating detail about Tarrant’s sexual problems, pouring scorn on her husband’s love-making skills, claiming that he was “clumsy and naive in bed” and had relied on Viagra for four years because he “couldn’t get it up”.

Obscene mudsling aside, one thing about the article that did strike me however, was the description of how she found out that her husband was taking Viagra. She described how when she found a packet of Viagra in the bin, Ingrid at first thought it must belong to her son Dexter. “I was very upset that he hadn’t talked to me about it,” she confirms. “Couples are supposed to be able to talk about everything, and I was so worried about him. I believe he has been popping the pills for years.”

So it goes to show that even the most wealthy and famous and seemingly unselfconscious have difficulties speaking to their partners about ED.