Youngsters Using Blue Pills To Enhance Sexual Performance

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By Austine Okande, Esther Muchene and Ruby Orimba 

From music videos, movies to lifestyle magazines with screaming headers of how to get the big ‘O’ or some other sexual pleasure, the bait always works.

A prevailing mainstream notion that ‘sex sells’, especially among the youths, perhaps explains why most products— even the macho gizmo, say an SUV car— are paired with racy women donned in minimal clothing to trigger attention.

Couple this with the easy availability on all media, especially the Internet and one understands why the sexual innuendoes bombarding your average Pulser today are perhaps unprecedented. 

Hollywood imagery of Casanovas who sweep women off their feet, have almost superhuman powers in pleasuring them plus good ol’ peer pressure, harden an anxiety to live up to an unrealistic ideal.

Those are some of the factors that explain why youths are taking it a notch higher to satisfy their sexual urges.

A recent spot check by Pulse across different campuses across the country revealed that vagina tightening drugs, penis enlargement pills to libido and virility drugs are flying off the shelf in chemists within the proximity of these institutions.

In a recent media interview, the Kenya Pharmaceuticals Distributors Association Chair Dr Kamamia wa Murichu was quoted saying,

“Sex enhancement drugs are outselling even popular painkillers like Panadol.”

Hamida Ahmed, a counselling psychologist, shares the view that with the recent increase of hard and soft pornographic content in our websites and television, young men and women becoming over-sexualized and under intense pressure to perform like porn stars.

“What many forget is that these are acted scenes with breaks in between made into a continuous movie, lest you kill yourself trying to do the impossible,” he adds.

Denis Onyango a fifth year Electrical Engineering student at the University of Nairobi however argues that, considering the fact that more young people especially among those in campus are watching these blue movies, the urge to emulate is inevitable.

 “These campus girls want us to do things I can’t even describe and some will even leave you at the slightest disappointment. This has happened to some of my close friends,” he adds.

While young lads ponder on how best to satisfy their girlfriends, young women openly discuss their sexual experiences with their friends. This means how big, how long or how pleasurable you are to be with becomes no secret within no time— an obvious invitation to do whatever it takes.

Unperturbed, comrades will creep to a pharmacy for the best libido enhancer and take up any challenge.

“I take it because my chic is very experienced, being two years older, and has expectations. I have to make her happy to protect my self-esteem as a man. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do,’’ says a student at Kenyatta University Main Campus who only wanted to be referred to as ‘Johnny’.

‘Johnny’ then goes ahead to tell us that in every campus parties and halls of residence it has become popular to find such drugs openly being sold. One can also place special requests for the drug to be delivered.

While puffing a cigarette away at the balcony of a rented apartment that he shares with other three students in Parklands, Victor (not his real name), a fourth year Bachelor of Arts student shares his sad experience with the sexual enhancement drugs that, according to him, have ruined his sexual life.

“I started using these performance enhancement drugs four years ago while in first year, immediately after I hooked up with this wealthy sugar mummy and my main purpose was to satisfy her wildest sexual fantasies,” Victor narrates before adding that it was she who introduced him to the drugs and bank rolled this, and all other, expenses in campus.

Like an addict in pursuit of an elusive high, in a period of four years Victor has used various blue pills ranging from Vega, Viagra, Enzoy, Vimax Pills, delay spray to herbal medicines in the name of pleasuring ‘his’ woman. He is now 24 years old.

He started experiencing severe penile pain and has since been diagnosed with erectile dysfunction, which is attributed to his frequent and prolonged use of the pills.

Still, hordes of students continue to use the pills to satisfy their sexual demands in utter ignorance of the impending adverse health side effects of such drug. Medics now are raising a red flag on the serious health side effects of the pills.

According to Dr Murichu, Vega, a generic of Viagra, is the most abused blue pill because it is cheaper at Sh50.

“These drugs, unless prescribed by a physician, have adverse effects with the most severe being a cardiac attack or even painful erections when in advanced stages,” Dr Murichu told Pulse.

Grace, a social worker who has worked in several VCT’s and youth NGO’s as a counsellor says that so many young people have STD’s and other conditions partly contributed to by unprotected sex driven by their abnormal sex drive.

“We are seeing the relation between these libido drugs taken with alcohol and other drugs like bhang which more and more young people are using contributing to erratic sexual behaviour,” she adds.

With at least Sh1, 500 one is able to afford a pack of VGRX, Vega and Camara goes for Sh50 and Sh100 respectively while Enzoy retails at Sh60.

Besides the young men using and abusing these drugs in order to be human stallions, women fare no better. Libido pills, vagina-tightening gels and supplements like provestra, which are meant to enhance orgasm, get good market amongst young ladies.

Mercy, a saleslady from Slim Solution posits that while young men buy this blue pills to enhance their sexual experience, the ladies always opt for the vagina-tightening gels to enhance pleasure.

“Our best sellers are Savage King, which retails for Sh2, 000 and VGRX which goes for Sh1, 500,” she adds.

According to a Hamida Ahmed, sex is all about the mind. While men may only need a little of physical arousal, women need to be psychologically indulged to enjoy sex. Blue pills are basically chemicals hence they will affect the mind and the body functions of the male, but that does not mean that it will influence the female’s libido in any way which completely erases the value of these pills on healthy capable men.

A female student at USIU, who preferred to remain nameless, seems to agree.

 “I like when my man is real, I wouldn’t date a man who is deceiving enough to lie about his sexual prowess. However I have female colleagues, who have embraced the fact that their partners use performance drugs,” she notes.