Want better sex? Eat pork, says Argentinian President
Published: January 30, 2010
Updated: January 30, 2010
In the scheme of things, a politician making grand statements masked as fact isn’t news. We’ve built an entire political system around competing statements, but there’s one thing we can be sure we won’t be hearing President Obama uttering to the American people anytime soon and that is: eat more pork, it makes sex better!
In a nut shell, that is what Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez told the leaders of the Argentinian meat industry after announcing she’d be instituting pork subsidies. President Fernandez claimed in the speech:
“I’ve just been told something I didn’t know, that eating pork improves your sex life… I’d say it’s a lot nicer to eat a bit of grilled pork than take Viagra.”
Argentina’s diet is predominately red-meat based and the speech, and pork subsidies (proceeding red meat subsidies earlier this year) are seen as a way to diversify the country’s diet. And perhaps, if President Fernandez stopped at that ”fact,” the collective world wouldn’t be chuckling at her words and shaking their heads.
But she pressed on telling the audience she has essentially tried it out, “things went very well that weekend, so it could well be true.” Sometimes, politicians need to learn there is such a thing as an over-share.
I don’t know the reactions people had in Argentina to her comments about her sex life, but I appreciate them (and not in that way). Our country is so puritanical that sex is one of those things that people can talk about, but aren’t allowed to do lest they be branded as sluts. So I think it’s cool that the president can talk about her sex life.
Additionally, Argentina has a huge beef export business, having the best beef second to only Kobe. It makes sense that a lot of them are eating beef. Eating a lot of artery-clogging meat actually impedes sexual performance, causing blood flow to penis to be restricted. Now, I’m not sure pork will fix that because I don’t know its fat or cholesterol content relative to beef, but it sure is an interesting idea.
“Argentina! Have more babies!”
I’d like to pork her.