Pork enhances sex drive???

Apparently, the president of Argentina doesn't get laid much. So when she did last weekend, she held a press conference and asseverated the value of eating pork, which apparently is what she and her husband did before he finally put out. And unsurprisingly, the Argentine pork producer's lobby was quick to confirm her assertions with some more extraordinarily unscientific claims.

Pork beats Viagra for high spirits in the presidential bedroom
January 30, 2010

BUENOS AIRES: Eating pork is at least as effective as popping a Viagra pill to spice up your sex life, according to the Argentine President, Cristina Kirchner, who claims to have tested the theory.

''Pork consumption improves sexual activity,'' Ms Kirchner informed a surprised gathering of business people at a meeting at the presidential palace.

''This is not a small detail,'' she said at the gathering to announce a reduction in the price of pork.

''Besides, some nicely grilled pork is much more gratifying than taking Viagra.''

Ms Kirchner said she ate some roasted pork over the weekend with her husband, former president Nestor Kirchner, at the couple's retreat in Argentina's southern Patagonia region, with ''impressive'' results.

''We were in high spirits the whole weekend,'' she said, smiling. ''I'm a pork fanatic and I'm not saying this just to impress you, or for self-promotion.''

The head of Argentina's association of pork producers, Juan Uccelli, backed up Ms Kirchner's claims.

People in Denmark and Japan, where pork consumption is high, ''have much more harmonious sexual lives than us Argentines have'', Mr Uccelli said.

Argentines, however, are among the world's most voracious beef eaters, with an annual per capita consumption of between 68 and 73 kilograms.

If this article had appeared anywhere other than the "wellbeing" section of The Age website, it could be ignored; but by placing it under this category The Age are implying that it is true. However I can't find a single scientific study indicating that consuming pork can enhance libido or sexual activity in humans.

As for the claims that nations with higher pork consumption have better sex lives, that is like saying since 90% of Americans believe in god and the murder rate in the US is higher than any other Western nation, believing in god increases your risk of being murdered.