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WASHINGTON — A Brazilian spider delivers more than a painful bite that sends most victims to the hospital. Its venom stimulates an hours-long erection. Now scientists have figured out the chemical that seems to be responsible for the penis boost. In Brazil, emergency room staff can immediately spot the victims of a bite from the Brazilian wandering spider . Patients not only experience overall pain and an increase in blood pressure, they also sport an uncomfortable erection.
A recent, nationally representative study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that about 18 million men in the United States suffer from erectile dysfunction. Research has shown that about one in three men with mild to moderate forms of erectile dysfunction don’t respond to Viagra, with some of these men having success with either Levitra or Cialis. And men with severe erectile dysfunction have less success with the drugs.
"All of this leads to vaso-dilation of vessels that go through the penis and also relaxation of those [cylindrical tube muscles]," Leite told LiveScience."They need to relax so the blood will come inside and that’s how you get an erection, because the blood gets trapped into the penis."
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