Spider venom could boost sex life
 

(shadozfire)

Original story here

By Vladimir Hernandez
BBC News

The Phoneutria nigriventer spider
The wandering spider's venom can be deadly
Brazilian and US scientists are looking into using spider venom as a possible treatment for male impotence.

Their investigation follows reports that men bitten by the Phoneutria nigriventer experienced priapism - long and painful erections.

A two-year study has found that the venom contains a toxin, called Tx2-6, that causes erections.

Further tests are being carried out in the US before the substance can be approved for human use.

The results, from the Medical College of Georgia, are expected in a month's time.

The bite of Phoneutria nigriventer, known as the Brazilian wandering spider, is potent and can be deadly in some cases.

The Brazilian and US researchers interviewed men who claimed their sex lives had improved after a spider attack.

The relevant toxin identified in the venom has been tested successfully on other animals.

So far, scientists believe that combining a version of the spider's venom with an existing drug for erectile dysfunction - such as Viagra, Cialis or Levtra - could produce better results.

So when you get bitten by a poisonous spider, you turn stiff as a board? :confused:

Unless it's a Redback... then, you're gonna die.

Hmmm, if one with a red backside bites you, you will die? Now that just goes for spiders, right? :D

I think that article was written be a leg man. :nod:

An eight leg man?


Makes me want to use more care in saying "bite me"

I think I hear a song coming on ...

Spider Man, Spider Man,
Friendly :D neighborhood Spider Man ...

This could be big news and the theme for Spider Man 4, the Movie. :boink:

i'm just wonderin what the darwinian advantage is. spider bites you and - if you're a guy - you get a boner. if you don't die, then you wander the jungle with a painful erection that lasts for hours. so does it cull the heard or thin it?

And wandering the jungle with a painful erection that lasts for hours leads one to start inserting said erection into waist high knotholes in trees.




Which increases the likelihood of getting bitten by a spider. :yikes:



What a terrible circle story! :dizzy:

what a wicked web we weave!