Dicing with death over dodgy sex pills

Thursday, Feb 09, 2012
The New Paper
By Special correspondent

Four men lie seriously ill in a hospital after possibly taking illegal sex drugs. However, some men are still open to buying them and business is brisk among peddlers.

Illegal sex drugs continue to be freely available in Geylang and Little India. This The New Paper reporter finds out more:

He may be in his 60s but age has obviously done nothing to diminish the taxi driver's sex drive.

There he was on Geylang Road last night, looking through some sexual enhancement products that a peddler was selling.

Curious, this reporter went up to the seller, who had parked himself outside the New Cathay Hotel and pretended to be interested in his wares.

I then turned to the taxi driver and asked for his recommendation.

His face lit up. "You try this," he said, pointing to a small bottle containing some almond-shaped red pills.

I inspected the product and noticed that there was nothing on the packaging which could tell me what the dubious-looking pills contained.

Instead, the bottle cap had some Chinese characters and underneath them were the words "jin mao sh wang".

I asked the 62-year-old man, who identified himself only as a taxi driver, if the pills were effective.

He grinned and said: "Different things work for different people. These red pills cost $5 for five tablets.

"You take them before you have sex. They are very good! One tablet can keep me going for two days. I take them with hot coffee one hour before having sex! Very effective!"

Intrigued, I asked him if he takes the pills every day.

He immediately turned serious and warned me that doing so could potentially damage my health.

He said: "You don't know what the pills contain. You don't know where they come from." After imparting this piece of advice, the man cheerfully waved goodbye and drove off in his taxi parked by the roadside.