Are you ashamed to visit swimming pools because of your embarrassingly small penis?

Having recently switched ISPs, I am now becoming aware of just how much spam my former provider was blocking from arriving in my e-mailbox. From products promoting breast and penis enlargement to more esoteric products that will 'make your wife love your sperm more than you!' (Yuck!!) I am now being bombarded by at least 80 e-mails a day (I know that's a small amount but it is a fairly new address!) asking impertinent questions, offering to show me sexual acts that shouldn't even be possible, and generally irritating the heck out of me by competing with the few e-mails I want to read and respond to...

Now, I don't want to author the gazillionth post about the evils of spam. I recognize the consequences of an open information highway is there will be lots of traffic on there that I'd rather not see and if it's the price of having such an open, unregulated system, it's worth paying it.

But as a sometime communications professional, I keep asking myself 'does such spam work'? Yes, I realize that the audience is large, the cost so small as to be for all intents and purposes non-existent. But does anyone actually respond to an e-mail that asks: 'does your wife prefer your dog's penis to yours?' I could almost hope that the link contained in that e-mail would take the respondent to their local humane society's site or a list of qualified psychological practitioners in the respondent's area... but I am depressingly certain that it will take them to a site offering cheap generic viagra!

Now I can accept that there's a legitimate market out there for viagra, implants and maybe even 'Spermamax'. But doesn't advertising such products with such inane, insulting and often misleading questions defeat the purpose? Is there really someone out there who will be induced to try viagra as a means of giving poor Fido a break??!

As happens too often, I'm left with more questions than answers... but after a (too) long hiatus, QCF is back with a vengeance! BTW, my answer to the first question is that I tend to avoid swimming pools because of my large stomach along with my tendency to sink like a stone in water. Unfortunately, there’s no legitimate ‘wonder’ drug that will help with those problems.