wackybrit - 7:21 am on Feb 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

There will always be a market for products such as Viagra and Xenical because there are a great number of people who are to embarrassed or ashamed to walk up to the counter.

That's true, but being able to just 'get them from the counter' means they're not prescription drugs. You have to get a prescription from a doctor to get prescription drugs.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I believe importing prescription drugs into the UK is illegal.

Advocating that some embarassed guy in the UK should have the right to import viagra is no different to saying he should be able to import steroids, simply because they're available as a prescription drug, and he's too 'embarassed to get them from a doctor.'

That said.. is viagra actually a prescription drug in the UK?