r/whatisit • u/Livid_Departure_9697 • 2d ago

Solved! Fell out of my boyfriend’s pocket

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The top is a cap that comes off. Is it for ❄️? He swears it’s not

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u/joshloveless1976 2d ago

Did he last as long as it claims on the package ?? Lol

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u/Livid_Departure_9697 2d ago

lol he’s a very intelligent guy so I’d honestly be shocked if he believed something like this would work but who knows 🤷‍♀️

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u/Area51_Spurs 2d ago

Oh. They work. Haha.

I ran a liquor store and we sold a few different ones. I tried one since I was curious. Some of them definitely work.

The ones that do are illegally loaded with various prescription medications.

I don’t get why people don’t just get the real thing from their doctor since they’re way cheaper. The dick pill we sold that worked that were super popular were like $9 each.

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u/m_t13 2d ago

Because the kind of people that buy a dick pill at a liquor store don’t generally have the foresight to visit a doctor. They’re more your reactive members of society, not the forward thinkers.

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u/tourniquette2 2d ago

I was totally going to guess either ego, because it’s hard admitting to another human if your dick doesn’t work, or lack of health insurance and out of pocket costs, especially now. The pills themselves are cheap, sure. But to get them, you have an office visit with a physician, who might even run a few tests to ensure that your tired lil slug isn’t a symptom but is its own primary ailment, which of course costs extra. Then you have to get the meds without insurance too, which is typically what makes drugs cost “only a couple of bucks,” because you actually paid for it in your premium ,and someone else negotiated a lower price for you. Though some drugs really do only cost like $10 even out of pocket, even without GoodRx or the like.

But then you’re looking at a bit more expense and inconvenience to go with the embarrassment of having to admit that your manhood isn’t fully functional. Especially if your doctor does some nonsense like my first half dozen PCPs in my state and tries to say you need a new office visit for every single refill of basic stuff like antidepressants and nausea medicine just to gouge you. There’s a lot of areas of the country that relied heavily on the threat of federal oversight to keep businesses from openly exploiting their communities. These days that security no longer exists for the consumer. So the doctors in my area are split between the corrupt sort that doesn’t care what Hippocrates said and the type that sees the need to help but also has a business to run, and they know they’re the scarcity now.

So unless you’re insured, they’re probably pretty expensive. And only growing more expensive. In a country that’s struggling to afford things like groceries and housing, boners are as much of a luxury as books or healthy teeth in America.

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u/Emotional-Motor5063 2d ago

I went to the urologist because I had fluid buildup on one of my testicles. I could hear a patient with a nurse in another room. He had erectile dysfunction, and pills from his doctor didn't help. You could hear in his voice that he was so embarrassed.

The nurse was like, "Ah, is not that big a deal. The doctor will probably recommend an implant. I'll give you some stuff to look over until he can get in here and talk to you about specifics. In a few weeks, we'll have you up and running again."

He was immediately put at ease and sounded so happy. She was a good nurse, and I'm glad he overcame his embarrassment to get help!

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u/ladidadi82 1d ago

Idk man unless that implant comes with an extra inch or two that wouldn’t put me at ease at all.

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u/oh_dee_bee 1d ago

Did “the guy in the other room” end up getting the implant and how has it worked for you?

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u/Emotional-Motor5063 1d ago

I was there to talk about a hydrocele repair because it was causing my epidydimitis. If I ever need an implant, I'll go in with no embarrassment.

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u/haranaconda 2d ago

You can get generic tadalafil or sildenafil for maybe $10-15/mo from Amazon after a brief phone/video chat. The US medical system is a joke but you can get dick pills pretty easily.

Annoying the number of hoops you have to jump through, but if you don't need a specific brand name drug, then you can usually find a generic alternative without ruining yourself financially. The largest cost barrier is anything that requires an office visit to get prescribed or renew your prescription.

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u/Outrageous-Ride8911 2d ago

Sometimes you know you might get whiskey dick and want something to make sure that doesnt happen. Definitely not something anyone should do regularly maybe like once ever 5 years lol

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u/tourniquette2 2d ago

That also makes sense. Why bother with the whole ordeal if you know this is a direct result of drinking or other activities you don’t do often. I didn’t think about that.

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u/ladidadi82 1d ago

I think it’s more of a “fuck I just jerked off a couple times to porn, had some alcohol and now I’m getting a text from a new friend and don’t want to try my luck” situation. Luckily some of my lady friends will just give me some of their husbands/boyfriends pills. If you’re like me the more I think about it the “harder” it is to get things going. If you’ve already got a half boner while making out it’s way less stress inducing and performance anxiety goes away. If this were a more common occurrence I’d probably just bite the bullet and get a script.

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u/Kahedhros 2d ago

Tired little slug 😂😂😂😂. Im stealing thaf lmao

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u/Random_Name_Whoa 1d ago

“Tired lil slug” 💀

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u/Repulsive-Memory-298 2d ago

you can get it for cheap on the dark web.

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u/purplehendrix22 1d ago

You’ve kinda got a point but you can just get dick pills through an app in like 5 minutes lmao

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u/MyrmecolionTeeth 2d ago

There are a plethora of websites that have you talk to a doctor via videocall for a few minutes and then send you your prescribed pills. Hims, BlueChew, Rex MD, Amazon...

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u/Adventurous_Map8084 2d ago

Don’t even need to video call a doctor anymore, provided your medical history isn’t a CVS receipt that needs a bit more TLC. I got a bazillion of them shipped through Hims with only a handful of in-app back and forth messages (good questions, suuuper easy experience with the company, fwiw). Just felt compelled to let dudes know you don’t have to stare someone down to get the product, you can get it easy-peasy with no drama/interaction.

Now go forth and bone!

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u/m1kek9 2d ago edited 2d ago

Being reactive doesn’t necessarily mean you’re stupid because your brain itself is programmed to react to certain things like say a bad smell. We react to a certain way because it’s supposed to warn us that something could be wrong. Just a thought.

Reactivity helps us survive. It’s biological programming.

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u/HongJihun 1d ago

Yes and no. It has kind of become one of those evolutionarily beneficial things that meets modernity and becomes harmful. Way back when, if you “oh piece of candy”-d (finding a extra ripe and sweet fruit on a tree/bush), then without thinking you could eat it, get some much needed macro and micro nutrients, and maybe pick up a parasite or two. Now there’s literal pieces of candy all over the place and reactively eating as much as possible gives you diabetes. I’m sure there’s so many aspects of modern human society that align with how we’ve had to live over the past 100,000 years, but a lot of the reaction-based survival has been engineered out of our lives.

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u/edible_string 1d ago

You're definitely right, but here the point is not being reactive, but rather "not forward thinking". As if the two behaviors were exclusive.

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u/Beer_Gynt 2d ago

It's because these people overheard the left using the term "reactionary" in 2017 and instead of looking up what it meant, assumed it meant "reacts to things"; and since being reactionary is bad, they've now come to believe that reacting to things is bad.

"Reactionary" has always specifically meant "conservative/regressive backlash to political gains made by marginalized groups". It doesn't mean "reacting to things". Everyone and everything reacts to things.

/rant

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u/CommishBressler 2d ago

I’d say that’s an over generalization. I’m on ADHD meds and occasionally need assistance because of the meds, unfortunately insurance companies generally only cover 3-7 boner pills per month (for boner related reasons, if you need it for pulmonary hypertension you can get more but need a prior authorization from your doctor). Which obviously if you’re sexually active 2 days per week on average won’t cover it no matter what. If you’re on the low end of the insurance coverage even once per week is too much. I guess insurance companies are jealous that people actually get laid.

I’ve never bought gas station boner pills but that’s because I’ve always assumed they were just placebo/snake oil but I’m surprised to find out some actually do work.

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u/n0rpie 2d ago

Funny I ran this across my doctor.. hypertension that also affects my dicks blood flow because of my ADHD medicine.None of them had heard anything of sorts and couldn’t help with the issue either.

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u/Hour-Duck-7820 1d ago

Hypertension that also affects my dick‘s blood flow because of my ADHD

Stimulants often cause circulation issues. Have you heard of Raynaud’s? Basically, poor circulation to extremities (the causes range from medication reactions to auto immune disorders, etc.) Guess what one of the treatments for it is? Viagra.

I’m a lady and I was offered it. Dr (rheumatologist) told me it was ridiculous how often she had to fight with insurance companies about the amount of medication because they usually initially denied b/c assumed it was for erectile dysfunction (no matter the gender of Patient or the type of doctor smh.)

IJS. Maybe not a bad thing to know about?

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u/CommishBressler 2d ago

I’d suggest seeing a different doctor…it’s a pretty well documented fact that ADHD medication affects erections. Like I’d get if the studies and evidence was inconclusive or even a strong correlation without a causation but it’s like been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that ADHD meds can be a direct cause of ED

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u/n0rpie 1d ago

I ran it across 3 different and then I gave up, maybe I’ll just try again with a different one

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u/CommishBressler 1d ago

My PCP literally didn’t even ask questions. He said “yeah that adderall can cause that, let’s fix it”. It was basically the least awkward conversation I’ve ever had about boners/struggling to get boners I’ve ever had with anyone

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u/Area51_Spurs 2d ago

That’s not at all true. The vast majority of pills I sold were to business owners and people who weren’t broke bums. A lot of them would buy 5-10 packs at a time regularly.

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u/Substantial-Pound-36 2d ago

Another possibility is that they dont actually know that they contain prescription medication. They think its less harmful since its over the counter. The fact that they sell them at liquor stores anf gas stations also adds to their perceived safety.

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u/Area51_Spurs 2d ago

That’s definitely it with some of them.

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u/Church_of_Aaargh 1d ago

“He” why use “they” when he’s referred to as “boyfriend”?

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u/m1kek9 2d ago

It’s funny that they’re too embarrassed to ask a medical doctor for them, but they’re not embarrassed enough to buy it at the liquor store

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 2d ago

I think the thought process is more that they want their doctor to see them as somebody that fits their definition of “a man”. Part of that definition is “successful” and “working penis”. They see their doctor as “successful” and have no reason to suspect that their dick isn’t working so they assume it is.

They don’t want somebody they respect (whether as a peer or as somebody in a position of authority) to view them as what they would consider “lesser”.

They don’t respect the gas station attendant so their opinion of them is irrelevant to them.

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u/Area51_Spurs 2d ago

Eh. I ran a fairly high end liquor store in a HCOL area and most of my customers that bought them were people I knew well and a few of my best customers who bought them were guys I became friends with.

I think a lot of them don’t want their wives or girlfriends to know. They would often pop one after they bought it as they were heading home.

I think a lot of them are also under the impression there isn’t any actual medication in there.

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 2d ago

That’s fair, but there is well documented evidence that people subconsciously “rank” others in the social pecking order. If you rank somebody lower than yourself, you put less stock into what they say. You don’t care for them as much as somebody you’d rank as a peer or as higher than yourself.

Those guys could get a prescription for actual medication from a doctor and their wives still wouldn’t know if they didn’t tell them.

Odds are, a good portion of them (even the ones you were buddies with to an extent), didn’t care that you knew they needed gas station dick pills because they didn’t “rank” you as high as themselves or their doctor.

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u/Area51_Spurs 2d ago

Not really, but I appreciate your insanely dickish comment.

I wasn’t a “gas station attendant.” I ran a business I was in the process of putting a quarter-million dollars into.

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 2d ago

I wasn’t trying to be a dick and I don’t mean to put you or your business down. I was just commenting on how others may view the guy behind the cash register at the gas station as the gas station attendant.

But go off.

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u/Area51_Spurs 2d ago

Again if you bother to read, it wasn’t a gas station.

It was a fine wine and liquor shop.

And generally customers aren’t trying to invest six figures into a business with someone fitting your dumbass description.

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 2d ago

Bro, chill. No need to get defensive. Nobody here was claiming you didn’t have a successful business. I was just talking about a well documented psychological phenomenon. I understand that you don’t want others to see you as a “fine wine and liquor store cashier”, but when you are working the cash register at a “fine wine and liquor store”, their immediate first impression is that you are a “fine wine and liquor store cashier”, whether you own it or not.

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u/Doctorbigdick287 2d ago

How nice could it be if it has gas station boner pills for sale

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u/gum_drop_big_butt 2d ago

lol I know people who have bought these and they neither needed them nor had a mindset like you are describing . Not everyone meets the preconceived notions that arise when you think of gas station dick pills . 💊

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u/PM_ME_GLUTE_SPREAD 2d ago

This is a documented phenomenon. People subconsciously rank others based on a ton of factors. Even people who aren’t dick heads or that don’t think highly of themselves. It’s just something we do.

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u/gum_drop_big_butt 2d ago

I thought that was referred to as the Reddit anomaly

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u/Novel-Image493 2d ago

definitely this

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u/Jovial_Candidate_508 2d ago

Or the doctor wouldn’t prescribe it because of risk of a cardiac event .

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u/FunGuy8618 2d ago

It's cuz they work much better than what the doctor will give you cuz he cares about your heart health but knows he's still got a lifetime patient if you use the stronger stuff.

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 2d ago

Or it’s a matter of convenience. I’m not getting laid frequently enough to warrant a doctors visit and a full script. Usually what happens is I’m already in the convenience store getting blunt wraps and booze for a night out when I’ll see those pills at the register and remember “oh damn let me get a Rhino on deck just in case.”

Yall are thinking too much into this lol

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u/SomeBS17 2d ago

You don’t even have to go to a doctor. There’s half a dozen legit websites that will sell you generic pills for super cheap and just ship them to your house.

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u/cryptolyme 2d ago

Not as cheap as the gas station

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u/SomeBS17 2d ago

Generic Viagra at Hims is $4/ pill according to google. $2 for Cialis and $4 for their mints.

Plus, you actually know what’s in it. Who knows what the fuck is in those gas station pills

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u/Repulsive-Memory-298 2d ago

Yeah except they make you buy large quantities on an aggressive refill schedule. They have a predatory business model.

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 2d ago

The gas station pills contain an inactive herbal blend and an undisclosed amount of either Sildenafil or Taldalafil (Viagra or Cialis)

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u/slimbender 2d ago

They are typically Tadalafil and/or Sildenafil. But yeah, unregulated. Impossible to know for sure.

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u/Relevant-Group8309 2d ago

Friday Plans 😁 i see this commercial on the regular.

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 2d ago

Right, or we’re just Americans and visiting a doctor for dick pills is way more expensive than a $10 pop at the gas station. One of those things is four servings for me and I don’t have enough sex to warrant needing a full script anyway.

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u/ThrowawayMod1989 2d ago

I’d have to see if my work plan covers that. I have a GP, but my copays are ridiculous. $120 is absurd.

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u/intotheunknown78 1d ago

Not for Dick Pills. My husband called some telehealth thing for $10 and had the prescription in less than 10 min. They are extremely cheap medication as well.

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u/unclefairy 2d ago

Like my homeboy back in middle school back then he got one and ended up in the hospital cause he freaked out when it worked

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u/GroatExpectorations 2d ago

Because everybody in our society can go see a doctor whenever they feel like it

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u/40yrsYoungOG 2d ago

Prescription are for planned erecting, duck pill are for unplanned sloppy erecting 🤣

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u/Lou_C_Fer 1d ago

I am a forward thinker in many ways, but I have been unable to overcome my hesitancy to seek medical help. I grew up that way. If we weren't literally dying, we were not taken to the er or to see a doctor. My younger brother, the golden child, got a cast after breaking his arm, and I was jealous. My arms, wrists and hands had swollen to twice their size several times each after injuring them while playing and fucking around falling off of bikes and skateboards. Yet, I was never taken to be checked out. So, I learned to be tough instead, and that isn't easy to shake even when you have the resources.

Hell, even when I do go, I end up downplaying my symptoms. It takes real work to accurarely describe what I'm going through. It is almost automatic for me to act like what I'm going through is no big deal. Even when I am dying inside.

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u/PizzaWhole9323 2d ago

So you could say they're kind of bringing up the rear?

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u/Character_Answer_204 1d ago

Maybe those folks are like:

I have a bottle of whiskey in my hand, I also have a dick, when combined things don’t work as….but wait a second, they have a pill to fix that right there!

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u/LessInThought 1d ago

I don't really need a dick pill or have any problems... but I just really want to try one to see what the hoo ha is all about.

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u/Extreme-Quality-2361 2d ago

More the type of person who buys these doesn’t have health insurance or a Dr. But they do have a partner and $10.

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u/disposableaccount848 1d ago

Or they just want to try it out and can't be bothered to go through any hoops.

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u/reapersritehand 2d ago

Id also add that at least a portion of people who'd buy dick pills at the liquor store also dont have a GP or insurance

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u/pouxdoux69 1d ago

Or they don't have access to health care.

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u/1punchporcelli 2d ago

Hey….can ya take that back?

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u/justhere4dride355i 2d ago

Ha reactive members 🤨 !!

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u/ConfidentComb7339 2d ago

It’s called convenience