ANTH106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Pison, Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, East Germany Olympic Football Team
3 Jun 2018
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Week 12 Erectile Dysfunction Drugs
- Story on professor Giles Brindley
- Tumescence
- Injected himself before coming to give the lecture – loose clothes to exhibit the
results, then dropped his pants to show his tumescence – scientific merits of unusual
method of demonstrating the results
- ‘true lateral thinker’
- Injected 17 different drugs – 7 of these induced an erection – not clear how much he
served as inducing these as well
- Different cultures different ideas of sexuality, masculinity and role of pharmaceuticals
- Why take EDD? To get an erection
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- Egypt – how to do research b/c conservative? Not the case – they talk freely and
openly, sex is normal and in martial relationship – spoken freely in scriptural texts
and pursue with partner and enjoy
- Ask hypotheticals – talk about their use of EDD
- Egyptian doctor to write a prescription
- By offering drug impugning their sexuality
- Fail of masculinity if they need them
- EDD – not in Egypt associated with deficiency – more positive
- Egypt = sexual exuberance – everyone experimenting with it and young men taking it
– here listing old men, not that connotation in Egypt – more accurate to call them
Erection Enhancement Drugs b/c didn’t connote sexual dysfunction
- Viagra black market and gift economy – still most expensive on market by facture of
10 – smuggle into country, gifts, offered as brides,
- All those drugs you can buy without prescriptions but not narcotics – a lot of
Egyptians equate tranidol with cildenaphil – both aid sexual function – tranidol
different effect than Viagra does –
- Bribe story
- Egyptian Boss gave the men in the company gifts of Viagra – context of something
fun and something shared and sexual exuberance
- Special aura – associated with foreign pharmaceutical companies, prestige
- Links between modern pharmaceutical companies and indigenous health
- Sea food and vigrara – certain foods that men can eat to produce sexual potency –
taping into cotempory discourse around pharmaceutical products – making it funny
and also reminding people making potency through natural way
- Taking traditions and mapping it out onto notoriety of global pharmaceutical product
- Counter to Aus steroypes of food that are gendered – Egypt if women knew what
rocket would do to men they would grow it everywhere
- Viagra and Tramadol – very different pharmacological mechanisms of action
- They take it like vitamins – take it before going to work or starting their day – both
are part of a language talking about assaults on men’s virility – Cairo people work
really hard, struggling to survive, working multiple jobs –
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- Crowding in Cairo assault on men’s body – hard to make them feel like men – what
makes someone a man? They would say he can take care of his family, feed them,
supports wife, cares for kids – ability to care for family – context of this, in order to
do this have to earn enough money, work really hard – exhausted from work and
Cario polluted and busy – bodies being assaulted with environmental pressure, men
feel like they are unable to be a man = tramadol taken recreationally = symbolically
restores a man’s masculinity in this context
- Drugs as structuring narratives around gender roles, sexuality, trauma, social
problems and symbolic politics
- Discourse of it being neccsary.- but dangerous with edicition and fear of addiction
and weakness mapped onto potlical conspiracy of Americans coming in and trying to
attack Eyptian men be giving them drugs that will weaken them
Chinese - Zhang
- Moral symptomatology – take about just about every pharmaceutical product –
science and medicine define a disease worth treating, impenitence during the Mao era
– only seen as a problem if men couldn’t have children – medical journals in this era,
soviet communist regime – only prescprtion to treating EDD – only treated if they
couldn’t have children, only successful if produce a child
- Recognised it but only under particular conditions – communist era sacrifice self for
good of society – collective goals – sexuality and sex individual goals, not worried
about if good communist so not seen as something needed treatment
- Post-Mao era, seen cured when men can get an erection – also one child era – goal is
now get an erection instead of producing a child – shift in moral symptomology
- How men saw their sexual desire as a problem – cut off penis – sexual desire so far
out of bounds of society shame – shifted completely in post Mao era
- No one said to have a child – how very unnatural and cultural our ideas are about
drugs, why we need them
Orgasm Inc 2009
- How diseases constructed in order to promote a drug
- 43% age 15-29 Female Sexual Dysfunction
- Vivus – orgasm cream for women
- Visual sexual stimulation
- Vivis – latin for alive – but life back into dead penises
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Document Summary
Injected himself before coming to give the lecture loose clothes to exhibit the results, then dropped his pants to show his tumescence scientific merits of unusual method of demonstrating the results. Injected 17 different drugs 7 of these induced an erection not clear how much he served as inducing these as well. Different cultures different ideas of sexuality, masculinity and role of pharmaceuticals. Not the case they talk freely and openly, sex is normal and in martial relationship spoken freely in scriptural texts and pursue with partner and enjoy. Ask hypotheticals talk about their use of edd. Fail of masculinity if they need them. Edd not in egypt associated with deficiency more positive. Egypt = sexual exuberance everyone experimenting with it and young men taking it. Here listing old men, not that connotation in egypt more accurate to call them. Erection enhancement drugs b/c didn"t connote sexual dysfunction.
