Playboy After Hours

May, 1986

Better living through ChemistryEmory University researchers have uncovered a new use for the nitroglycerin skin patches worn to reduce heart pain. A Georgia man with heart disease noted that if he wore the patches on his chest, the drug gave him a headache. Even so, the man, in an adventuresome mood, rubbed a used patch on his penis. Within five minutes, the vasodilating effect of the drug produced an erection, and he had sex with his wife. "Several minutes later," the researchers repo...