News Forum - Health Ministry warns against eating geckos for sexual benefits

[Thaiger]

The Department of Health of Thailand issued a warning against consuming live geckos in the belief that they can enhance sexual performance, stressing the lack of scientific evidence and potential health risks. Health authorities have raised alarms over a dangerous trend among middle-aged men in Thailand, involving the consumption of live geckos as a supposed … …

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[MrStretch]

In most countries I've lived there has nearly always been a belief in some weird consumption that would put "lead in your pencil", as some would say.

I thought the Koreans consumption of dog for that reason was strange but this?

This just sounds foolish from the get-go.

[Ramanathan.P]

In this world anything that bears the name "sexual performance enhancer"is easily sold and accepted because they don't understand the real meaning of sex. They are only fantazising the act based on movies that they have been watching all these years. 

[Smiler]

People are just so gullible how on earth can you believe this clap trap, at the end of the day geckos of all shapes and sizes do a huge amount of good by eating all the troublesome insects like mosquitoes and roaches. 

[LeReynard]

It's disgusting to eat any vertebrate alive, and bluntly, it can confer no benefits to the consumer