- Villagers claim fumes from the nearby Viagra factory has an arousal effect on the men and animals
- The manufacturer however dismissed the stories as “amusing” myth
Following successful legislation, UK pharmacies will be selling Viagra over the counter in 2018. But the men of Ringaskiddy village in Ireland’s Cork County don’t need to pay for the erectile dysfunction drug, anyway.
In fact, they don’t even have to pop the little blue pill: the fumes wafting from a nearby Viagra manufacturing plant reportedly have an arousing effect on the male population. The villagers claim that even some of their animal roam about in a state of arousal. Basically, it is a case of love is in the air.
“We’ve been getting the love fumes for years now for free. It’s amazing the number of people who come to this village, perhaps out of curiosity, and then never leave. They settle down here,” according to Sadie O’Grady, a local.
Huh! Yaani, just one whiff and you are stiff! “Even the dogs here have been known to walk around in a state of sexual excitement,” noted another local, Fiona Toomey.
It may sound great for the villagers’ love lives, but the people of Ringaskiddy have their concerns and fear.
Toomey, a psychiatric nurse back home after a five-year stay in the US, said: “I think that Viagra must have got into the water supply. I’m convinced that’s what happened at the very beginning before they were so closely regulated.”
Viagra is a cash cow for US-based pharma giant Pfizer, which has had this particular factory going for about two decades.
According to a company statement, the stories are just an “amusing” myth. “Our manufacturing processes have always been highly sophisticated as well as highly regulated,” Pfizer said.
