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From Foods That Make You Fart to Bull Urine Ointment, How the Ancients Dealt With Man’s Struggle to Get It Up

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You’ll never think about arugula the same way.

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Viagra burst onto the market and into pop culture in 1998. The little blue pill’s approval by the FDA seemed to usher in a new era of unfailing sexual performance.

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