Viagra boosts feeling of love

IMPOTENCE drugs such as Viagra may do more than help men have sex — they may also boost levels of a hormone linked with feelings of love, US researchers reported.

Viagra, known generically as sildenafil, raised levels of the hormone oxytocin in rats, the team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison said in a report published in the Journal of Physiology.

This hormone is involved in nursing and childbirth but also in orgasm and feelings of sexual pleasure.