{"id":18286,"date":"2017-11-16T10:43:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=18286"},"modified":"2017-11-16T10:43:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:43:43","slug":"matt-damons-next-movie-topic-erectile-dysfunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/viagra\/matt-damons-next-movie-topic-erectile-dysfunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Damon\u2019s Next Movie Topic? Erectile Dysfunction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Matt Damon\u2019s Next Movie Topic? Erectile Dysfunction<\/figcaption><\/figure> Today we know that the only real medications for erectile dysfunction are those available by prescription, including such top names like Viagra. But that wasn\u2019t always the case.<\/p>\n

The strange-but-true story about a fake cure for erectile dysfunction that was made into the 2008 Pope Brock book, \u201cCharlatan: American\u2019s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam,\u201d will now be made into a movie.<\/p>\n

The story behind the movie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hollywood superstar Matt Damon will produce and star as con man John R. Brinkley, a doctor who hocked a fake treatment for erectile dysfunction in the early 1900s. The \u201ccure\u201d involved surgically implanting goat testicles into men with erectile dysfunction in order to supposedly give him the ability to get and maintain erections.<\/p>\n

In 1920, Brinkley began promoting the \u201ccure\u201d for erectile dysfunction, using a newspaper ad to display a photo of \u201cBilly,\u201d the \u201cFirst Goat-Gland Baby.\u201d It was only by chance that the wife of his first goat gland transplantation baby gave birth.<\/p>\n

He soon went from claiming that the surgery cured erectile dysfunction to claiming it cured a wide variety of male ailments.<\/p>\n

Brinkley did a direct mail blitz to promote his erectile dysfunction \u201ccure\u201d and hired an advertising rep to further push publicity. He quickly became very rich and was considered a national celebrity.<\/p>\n

The downfall<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the publicity caught the eye of the American Medical Association, which became very suspicious of the so-called cure for erectile dysfunction. The organization sent an undercover agent to Brinkley\u2019s clinic, and immediately confirmed their suspicions. Brinkley was eventually taken down by a doctor named Morris Fishbein, who dedicated his life to exposing medical frauds.<\/p>\n

After several deaths occurred from the surgeries, Brinkley was taken to court for malpractice, wrongful death and fraud. The stress led him to die sick and nearly broke.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The details<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Variety<\/em>, K Period Media\u2019s Kimberly Steward, who worked with Damon on the Oscar-winning drama \u201cManchester by the Sea,\u201d will co-produce \u201cCharlatan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brock\u2019s book was also the inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, \u201cNUTS!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we know that the only real medications for erectile dysfunction are those available by prescription, including such top names like Viagra. But that wasn\u2019t always the case. The strange-but-true story about a fake cure for erectile dysfunction that was made into the 2008 Pope Brock book, \u201cCharlatan: American\u2019s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erectile-dysfunction","category-viagra"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t