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Talk about a stiff drink: Skip the energy drinks, man. Your libido in a bottle is here. Cheers! |
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Written by Megan Scott, asap
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Thursday, 19 October 2006 |
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 There are dozens of drinks that will keep you up all night long — Red Bull, Adrenaline Rush, Rockstar.
But a new drink scheduled to hit night clubs later this month claims to do the same thing for your, ahem, libido.
Fever is being billed as the first ever all-natural libido stimulant beverage, an “herbal fusion” of eight herbs the company says enhance sexual performance and pleasure. It should hit stores in six months to a year and will be sold in night clubs and bars in cities including New York, Los Angeles, Miami and Las Vegas.
“It makes you warm,” says Delmond Newton, CEO of Fever, which is in Philadelphia. “It gives you a tingling feeling in your body and gives you a sensation of wanting to touch. It even helps minimize fatigue. But one of the main things is it stimulates the libido.”
Viagra in a bottle? Don’t cancel your prescription just yet.
PLEASURE
Newton came up with the idea for a “stimulation” drink after reading an article in Forbes magazine about the popularity of the energy drink Red Bull. When he went to the store that night and saw sexual stimulation pills, he started thinking, “What if I can create something healthier and put it in a bottle?”
He contacted an herbalist friend and said he needed the best known herbs for stimulation. Another friend who owns a drink company helped him launch the product.
“It was important that we went all natural,” says Newton. “We went out and got herbs that we knew were known aphrodisiacs, known to stimulate and put those herbs in a bottle. The product does have caffeine, but our caffeine is from green tea.”
He’s quick to say that Fever is not a cure for impotence. But he referred a reporter to an early tester of the drink.
Michael Gabre-Kidan, who owns a coffee house and gourmet shop in Alexandria, Va., and says he has no financial stake in the company, says the drink enhanced his sense of touch.
“Anywhere my wife touched me, it was incredible,” he says. “So I guess it did what it’s supposed to do.”
BUYER BEWARE
But be careful. First, there’s no proof that any herbs can enhance the libido.
“Most of these products don’t work,” says Gary Schubach, a sex educator in San Francisco. “There’s no magic bullet. There’s no studies that have shown that most of these things have any more advantage than a placebo. ... Most of these products are simply a waste of money.”
And there’s a chance that some of the herbs are dangerous.
The ginger vanilla-flavored beverage includes herbs such as Suma, Panax Ginseng and Damiania Leaf, and some of them can be dangerous if taken over a long time, says Martha Lucas, founder of the Colorado Center of Traditional Medicine.
“As a practitioner, some of the herbs in this formula would be indicated for things like impotence and lack of libido,” she says. “However, many of the herbs can have some pretty severe side effects. One can cause women to produce more estrogen. Plus at least one of these ingredients should not be taken by people with hypertension.”
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