Viagra News (2005)

Women Refuse Cheap Viagra in Italy

Date: December 12, 2005

A survey report says that Italian women do not support the idea of lowering the Viagra price and making it available to their partners. It was discussed that Viagra would be made available at discounted prices to the pensioners at nearly half the prices it is sold otherwise.

The women have their own reasons for declining to support this offer. Some say that they are afraid that if Viagra would become more accessible to their husbands, they may become more demanding as far as sex is concerned. There are some others who feel that cheap Viagra would lead their husbands astray.

In a poll conducted among 200 woman above 55 years of age, more than three quarters (78%) gave a thumbs down to Milan city council's proposal of making the anti-erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra at half its price. Over a third of these, 36%, said they didn't want "to be forced to have sex more often," while one in seven (14%) were "afraid he'd use it with someone else." The remaining 28% said their husbands didn't need Viagra.

Only 22% of the 200 women polled gave the proposal a thumbs up - 15% of them because "sex is important at all ages" and 7% because "Viagra boosts relationships".

Source: Ansa.it