A new sex trend among college students is getting attention on TikTok − and it has doctors worried.
That trend is using honey packets, a controversial supplement marketed for sexual enhancement. In a TikTok with over 400,000 views, students at Arizona State University snicker as they either tout having taken the supplement themselves or note its use on campus.
“Hey, a man never reveals his secrets, I can’t say,” one college student says when asked if he’s taken it, before giggling and walking off camera.
Doctors, however, are not laughing. The Food and Drug Administration has issued warnings about multiple honey packet brands, citing hidden drug ingredients in the product.
The big problem, doctors say, is that when you ingest a honey packet, you really don’t know what’s in it. Some of these products, they say, contain natural ingredients like maca and ginseng − which, though harmless, won’t have much of any impact on your sex life, save for a placebo effect. Others, however, contain pharmaceutical ingredients, like tadalafil, the active ingredient in Cialis, a medication meant to treat erectile dysfunction.
“I just think it’s an unnecessary thing to do,” says Dr. Peter Leone, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases. “I’m all about people having good sex and sexual pleasure, but I prefer safer ways of doing it.”
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