Erectile dysfunction pill sales surge in Russia – with young men suffering extreme stress

Demand for potency pills in Russia has skyrocketed due to stress related to Vladimir Putin’s war, a new study suggests.

According to the Center for the Development of Advanced Technologies in Moscow, spending on drugs to combat erectile dysfunction increased by 75 percent year-on-year.

The increase in July to September last year was 19 percent higher than the previous quarter. In the first quarter of 2023, this has risen to 40 percent.

The study also found that Russian spending on contraceptive products also declined over the same period.

The findings coincide with Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, where demand was particularly high among residents of wealthier zip codes, such as Moscow, the Moscow region and St Petersburg.

“On average, in the first quarter of 2023, there were 392 packs of such drugs per thousand adult males living in Russia,” analysts from Chestny Znak noted.

Erectile dysfunction is increasingly common in younger men – those most vulnerable to being called up as cannon fodder for Putin’s war on Ukraine.

The rise in the use of such drugs comes despite a ‘blow below the belt’ for Putin with an announcement in February that deliveries of Viagra tablets to Russia had been halted.

“Viatris LLC has informed us of the cessation of supply of the Viagra drug in tablet dosage form,” the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade said, Interfax reported.

Still, this caused a 50 percent increase in sales of the potency-enhancing drug, Chestny Znak said. There was no chance of couples being let down by a lack of supplies.

Available supplies are sufficient to meet current demand for eight months.

“During this time, suppliers of equivalent drugs can increase the volume of stocks and replace Viagra in Russian pharmacies with their products.”

There are also signs that Viagra and other similar Western drugs are reaching Russia through other countries, including Kazakhstan and China.

It is believed that the dictator himself favors another method of potency increase, having been introduced to massacres by his Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, a native of Siberia.

Putin is said to have fathered children in 2015 and 2019 with lover Alina Kabaeva, 39, and some accounts say there are more children.

Instead of a little blue pill, this method involves bathing in a bath of moral deer blood collected when the antlers of Siberia’s animals are cut.

Putin allegedly fathered children with lover Alina Kabaeva (pictured in 2005), 39, in 2015 and 2019 — and some accounts say there are more children

Instead of a small blue pill, this method involves bathing in a bath of moral deer blood collected when the antlers of Siberia’s animals are cut

Animal welfare experts have criticized the “barbaric” way in which antlers are sawed off terrified Siberian deer.

The ancient tradition is seen as a testosterone-powered elixir to enhance male potency, as well as bringing multiple health benefits.

There is also a theory that it slows down aging in women, but there is a lack of medical evidence as a cure for ailments.

Shocking videos and photos highlight the fear and terror of the Maral deer when an electric saw is used without anesthesia to cut off their beautiful velvet antlers, made from fast-growing bone at a breeding station in Russia’s Altai Mountains.

The cutters suck the blood out of what they see as a “natural Viagra.” Observers say the creatures are “bewildered” and “shellshocked,” their eyes “bulging with fear.”

The beasts are herded into a special cutting room where a press “approaches the deer from both sides, as the floor moves down, leaving the deer in suspended animation,” one account said.

The deer are “pushed into a ledge as if sentenced to the guillotine, hooves flailing but unable to touch the ground.”

Irina Novozhilova, president of the Russian animal protection center ‘Vita’, said the method was ‘totally abnormal’.

‘Massacres. This is manipulating nature without any sense,” she said.

“It is a pure example of cruel treatment of animals.”

She suggested that the process was medieval, saying, “It is strange that we are discussing this issue in the 21st century, because the belief in the effectiveness of this medicine made from antler dates back to ancient times.”