Fart molecule could be next Viagra

[NoJo]

Fart molecule could be next Viagra

From New Scientist Magazine issue 2698, 6 March 2009


THE stink of flatulence and rotten eggs could provide a surprising lift for men. Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) causes erections in rats and may one day provide an alternative to Viagra for men.

The penis is packed with spongy tissue that produces an erection when it fills with blood. Nitric oxide (NO) helps relax the walls of arteries that supply the penis, allowing extra blood to flow in. Viagra works by blocking an enzyme that destroys NO.

H2S has recently been shown to relax the walls of major blood vessels too. Now Giuseppe Cirino at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and his colleagues have found enzymes that produce H2S in human penile tissue. Injecting this tissue with H2S dilated the blood vessels, while injecting it into the penises of live rats produced erections (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807974105).

 

[TxRad]

Uh, 100 parts per million of H2S in air will render you unconscious. Exposure at that level for more than a few minutes will kill you.

Add like O4 to H2S and you have sulfuric acid. I think I'll keep that away from my dick, if ya don't mind.

 

[DesertPirate]

Uh, 100 parts per million of H2S in air will render you unconscious. Exposure at that level for more than a few minutes will kill you.

Add like O4 to H2S and you have sulfuric acid. I think I'll keep that away from my dick, if ya don't mind.

I'm with Tx on this one

 

[voluptuary_manque]

By the time they can get it to market it will be obsolete, anyway. Palatin Industries has PL-6283 in the pipeline. It works on both men and women and increases desire as well as capacity. The first truly working aphrodesiac!

 

[impressive]

Oh, that's just great. You'll have a raging boner and no one willing to get near enough to take advantage of it.

 

[TE999]

All these years I've been offending people and wasting a cure for ED...who'da thunk it?

 

[jomar]

Where do the matches fit in?

 

[dr_mabeuse]

H2S is easy to make at home if you want to experiment. You heat some iron filings with sulfur in a test tube over the stove, let it cool, and that gives you FeS, ferric sulfide. Drop some acid in that, say sulfuric, H2SO4, and you get H2S.

H2SO4 + FeS --> H2S + FeSO4

Hang the test tube out the window, though, and keep your face away. Like Tx says, the stuff's toxic as well as stinky, and you'll be choking before you ever pop a stiffy.

 

[DG Hear]

Fart molecule could be next Viagra

From New Scientist Magazine issue 2698, 6 March 2009


THE stink of flatulence and rotten eggs could provide a surprising lift for men. Hydrogen sulphide (H2S) causes erections in rats and may one day provide an alternative to Viagra for men.

The penis is packed with spongy tissue that produces an erection when it fills with blood. Nitric oxide (NO) helps relax the walls of arteries that supply the penis, allowing extra blood to flow in. Viagra works by blocking an enzyme that destroys NO.

H2S has recently been shown to relax the walls of major blood vessels too. Now Giuseppe Cirino at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy and his colleagues have found enzymes that produce H2S in human penile tissue. Injecting this tissue with H2S dilated the blood vessels, while injecting it into the penises of live rats produced erections (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807974105).

Farting while having an erection doesn't sound like a good thing. What if the fart ends up being more than just a fart and you shit yourself? Could loose a few partners that way.

 

[NoJo]

Personally I don't need any of that because, I caan ipmress myyy giirl with a stunnnigly srtong pneis


esacpe. And theey weere ruun to erath in a huose in the neighoburhood, and

 

[CharleyH]

Personally I don't need any of that because, I caan ipmress myyy giirl with a stunnnigly srtong pneis


esacpe. And theey weere ruun to erath in a huose in the neighoburhood, and

I doubt your flatulence will attract me, although, your pheromones are quite .. na, they aren't.

 

[shereads]

Uh, 100 parts per million of H2S in air will render you unconscious. Exposure at that level for more than a few minutes will kill you.

I was in that same elevator car! We made it to the lobby with only seconds to spare.

 

[shereads]

Oh, that's just great. You'll have a raging boner and no one willing to get near enough to take advantage of it.

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[TE999]

Personally I don't need any of that because, I caan ipmress myyy giirl with a stunnnigly srtong pneis


esacpe. And theey weere ruun to erath in a huose in the neighoburhood, and

u kikd th dor in and comed in her fac?