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Apr 18, 2004 I want to step away from politics for a moment; my gosh, I’ve been eating, sleeping and breathing it for the past few months, and won’t be able to come up for regular air until after Election Day 2004. So, I’m skimming the headlines on the electronic media pages, and what should catch my eye but a tagline about Viagra and divorce? It seems that in Britain, old boys who down the little blue pill turn their wives into pills from the sheer volume of sex they demand while hopped up on sildenafil citrate (citrate? Is it made of oranges? Grapefruit?). The media would bemuse us into thinking that it’s all Viagra’s fault that these marriages are failing; upping the frequency of sex in a marriage shouldn’t rock the foundation of “til death do us part,” right? I’m disappointed that these men chose to remove romance and courtship from their relations with their wives by seeking chemical relief for the inevitable toll aging has on the human body. Rather than cuddle and court their ladies, they find themselves resorting to popping pills to re- enact tawdry porn-star scenes with lifelong partners. No wonder the women are up in arms. They’re now being treated as relief from a self-induced condition by these men. I read this article and wept for the declining moral attitudes that forced a handful of woman through such a humiliating public process as seeking divorce from men who don’t know how to be men. “HARRUMPH! It’s all the Liberals’ fault!” Yeah, well, if it is, then we should apologize. We should be unlike any other, and sincerely apologize for what we’ve become. We should ask forgiveness for slip-sliding away into fulfilling the stereotypes of knee-jerk, tree- huggin’, baby-killing atheists who tax and spend and could care less about corporations and are more concerned about the chickens killed to feed the multitude who drove through a fast food joint’s window today. We should just apologize for not yet providing a perspicacious and palatable alternative to anything offered on the political menu, and change for the better. After all, in a consumer market, doesn’t the product that most appeals to the masses win? In a Viagra-induced “Divorce Court” world, I’m feeling blue. ------------ About the author: Chuck Tyler is a freelance writer and journalist based in South Bend, Indiana. His credits include coverage for the South Bend Tribune (www.SouthBendTribune.com) of a triple homicide trial and a town hall meeting of concerned citizens and local officials for the Herald-Palladium (www.HeraldPalladium.com) following 9/11. Email him at: tyler_1420@yahoo.com ------------ |
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