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Viagra is a drug you might be hearing about most of the time. But did you happen to know that its generic counterpart is called Sildenafil Citrate? This drug has been around us for almost a decade now and it has never failed to impress people still with its potency at helping treat erectile dysfunction and the marketing and selling power may have dimmed a bit due to the introduction of other drugs, but nothing still beats this drug in terms of those things. Being the first in the market certainly do have its advantages and sildenafil citrate and Viagra was sure able to capitalize on that. When other pharmacies would not look at erectile dysfunction, Pfizer took a swipe at it with sildenafil and they sure struck gold with this one. Sales have never been matched by any other drugs within the last few decades and this was in part helped by the fact that erectile dysfunction patients and men with this ranged in the millions and the latest statistics put it at 60 million in the US alone. That much many are bound to still increase with every year as more and more men are starting to come out with this problem and those that were not reported in the past too might also appear to add to the stats and numbers.

The internet has also helped in the sales of Viagra as the internet coincided with the release of sildenafil and since online commerce was also a good marketing strategy, Sildenafil was made available easily by the pharmacies and people all over the world are now able to buy easier with this system, and for men in the US, they are more comfortable online as the anonymity factor is present online. No one has to know you or know you have erectile dysfunction as you don’t need to go out of the house just to buy this drug. Other things that catapulted sales of this was that there are men who don’t have ED but they buy this for “recreational purposes” since they think this might help them with the erection part as it is supposed to give harder and longer lasting erections, which is a good sounding sex aide for them. But what really makes it sell so much is the fact that this drug is really one of the most potent drugs that can make even chronic impotency patients have a good round of sex by taking it.