Viagra: The little blue pill at 20
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It is quite possible that audience members, having “dispersed in a state of flabbergasted disarray,” did not exhale for another 15 years, when federal regulators in the US approved Viagra – the little blue pill that made it a little easier, and certainly less humiliating, for men to make everything work as God intended.
Viagra, approved on March 27, 1998, became a pharmaceutical and cultural phenomenon at a very odd moment – amid then-US president Bill Clinton’s sex scandal with intern Monica Lewinsky, when one of Clinton’s fiercest and oldest political enemies became a TV pitchman for the drug.
Bob Dole, the conservative Republican senator from Kansas.
“Dole may have lost the presidential election,” Meika Lee wrote in The Rise of Viagra, “but this time he returned victorious,” capturing the country’s attention – and late night TV laugh lines – as “the one bringing respectable sexuality back to America and American politics.”
And you thought things were strange now.
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