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An impotent canned viagra - Sex Drive Energy

August 15, 8:49 AM
by Big Red Boots, Caffeine Examiner
 
 

 

I feel used. We met via email - finding their sexy picture online and sending a slightly forward email. They called me a couple times, they even gave me their t-shirt - and then they came to my doorstep - wrapped in a slinky wrapping paper. I felt like this new energy drink was going to do great things to me - pick me up and make me full of aroused energy. But twenty minutes later I still found myself alone in my room with another, more fulfilling drink relationship.

Since teenagerhood, I have never really wanted more of a sex drive. Sex Drives do stupid things - like make you hook up with the wrong people, act like an idiot in public and get yourself on daytime talk shows. There has been no end of trouble to the human race by thinking with the wrong end of their bodies - and as a testament to this, Sex Drive energy drink was invented. Unfortunately, you need more than a cool name and a couple ingredients that are "aphrodisiacs" to make a great energy drink. You need a sexy printing job that makes the beads of vapor look like the can is cool and sweaty just for you. You need a flavor that makes you crave for more, and faster, and you need the buzz to tingle you and keep you awake at nights.This can left me feeling limp, energyless and about as sexy as that night I had to spend trying to stay awake to pay taxes. As much as I want to love this drink, there still is no aphrodisiac as good as a warm night on a deserted beach with some margaritas.

Nutrition/Buzz:3
Horny goat weed is one of 2 main herbs used to help sex you up, which works because of a flavonoid called icariin. Suppliments taken for libido should be about 2 grams a day. This drink contains only 50mg, which means you would need to consume 40 cans a day or so to see any benefit. Their other special ingredient is L-Arginine, a non essential amino acid. This is not really what you would call a energy boosting ingredient, and not supposedly a sexual mood enhancer. What it can do is help with erectile dysfunction, which can help once you are in the mood, but not necessarily get you there. Not to mention, in the study where this was found to help dysfunction, 5mg were taken every day to achieve this effect. That means you would need to drink up 2 1/2 cans every day for 30 days to see any sort of effect. L-arginine is made by your body, and is also be found in such exotic ingredients such as cheeses and pork, granola and tuna fish.

Also, why would you bother making an energy drink and put less caffeine in it than Diet Mountain Dew?? This is a major faux pas for anything calling itself an energy drink. That is on top of the fact that it only comes in the 8oz size. This means if you want more caffeine than a half cup of coffee then you are going to have to go elsewhere for more sustenance. Sure, they put other supposed aphrodisiacs, such as Blue Lotus in here - but if you are not the type of person to believe in a cure - all for increasing sex drive then this has the equivalent of some herbal tea ingredients in it. While none of them are in any way harmful, they are in no way beneficial - any more than you can say that caffeine helps impotence because of increased circulation.

Taste:4
I was hoping for finding a luscious pomegranate or maybe even passion fruit - something which speaks of desire and lusty flavor. But no - I got a can of Red Bull Clone again. I am again feeling unsatisfied. While not exactly a red bull - as they are a bit more gummy and a little less sour, this still smacks of everything that we have all tasted a million billion times before. This was a big letdown for me. I figured that at least if it did not have any really good nutrition it would at least taste really good - and almost took the red bull clone as a personal affront. Why would you do this to someone? Why go to all the trouble of making an energy drink and be too afraid to make it taste different than the other clones out there? It takes some balls to make a drink that tastes different than what is out there - and that is what makes energy drink companies stay in business. Coming out with a differently packaged weaker Red Bull is just a waste of taste buds.

Packaging:3
When I think aphrodisiac, the First thing that jumps to my mind is not a cheaply printed thin Arial font with lines in it. I would think SEX. You know, sexy body parts and sexy cans, something fleshy or at least something sensual. something like Turn on Energy drink or even Dickens Energy Cider - But a tiny black can with a thin logo in a red circle is not what I would call sexy. You actually have to make this can readable too - which means making readable text, a cool design and using a printing job that does not emphasize the lack of money spent of creating the artwork. My advice, find a designer - find a design team, and start this entire can from scratch. Don't be afraid to spend the extra dollars to make something special - something memorable. An aphrodisiac in a can is a great idea, but you need to make a great can to sell it - and this is definitely not it. I did like the list of ingredients, including caffeine content - as well a the phone number and company info - but the rest is pretty second rate.

Website:3
Fitting with the rest of this drink, the website is lacking on many fronts. Really guys, hire a professional to do the job. Just because you have a street cam does not help sell energy drinks. Neither does stealing other people's videos for the homepage. Unless you actually paid Oakenfold and the other artists for the use of those videos then you are not allowed to use them on a business site and can get sued for the use of them. While I am not going to be the one to inform the artist's agents, if they did find out you were using them without permission expect a letter from their lawyers. really, look at the other work miamitom has done, and compare that to most other high-end sites. Your text should be searchable- not in a big jpg. Your images should be pleasing and laid out well - and your home page should not be around half a meg because of not knowing how to use images properly. Miami Tom really needs to go back to school and learn how to build a website.


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