{"id":2360,"date":"2008-09-02T17:29:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T22:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2017-10-01T19:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T00:48:46","slug":"progene-male-supplement-buy-it-or-youll-never-have-sex-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/02\/progene-male-supplement-buy-it-or-youll-never-have-sex-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Progene Male Supplement: Buy It or You’ll Never Have Sex Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

This commercial I recently saw on Comedy Central for Progene<\/a> male enhancement supplement warns men who are “not 20 anymore” that, without their product, they won’t be able to satisfy a woman.<\/p>\n

[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tphU_5g1A-w[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot of a graph from the video which purports to show how men’s sexual performance declines with age:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, we women “know it’s not your fault,” “it’s natural.”<\/p>\n

Obviously you could could use this for a discussion of the increasing scrutiny men’s bodies are put under (much as women’s long have). But it’s also a good example of the way sex is often discussed; the implication here is that the only way to satisfy a woman sexually is to be able to have sex like a 20-year-old man, and the emphasis is clearly on penile-vaginal intercourse as the main source of sexual pleasure (though it does come with the handy DVD about the female orgasm). I might also use it when I talk about the ways we construct biology and treat some “natural” processes as inevitable and unalterable while attempting to change others.<\/p>\n

For the unbelievers, I know this ad may very well look fake, but I swear to you I saw it on TV. Multiple times, because it was during a show I’d recorded, so I had the opportunity to rewatch it to my heart’s content.<\/p>\nGwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This commercial I recently saw on Comedy Central for Progene male enhancement supplement warns men who are “not 20 anymore” that, without their product, they won’t be able to satisfy a woman. [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tphU_5g1A-w[\/youtube] Here’s a screenshot of a graph from the video which purports to show how men’s sexual performance declines with age: Of course, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,664,218,55,2103,2091,2087,252,778,120],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-biology","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-healthmedicine","tag-intersectionality","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71933,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions\/71933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}