Viagra orgy leads to man's death

Serge Tuganov, 28, of Moscow, accepted a $4000+ bet from two women that he couldn't handle a 12-hour sex marathon with them. According to KTLA News, he won by downing a bottle of viagra. But right after the orgy, he died of a heart attack. No info on how many pills might in a "bottle." In fact, not much info in general. "Man Dies After 12 Hour Viagra Fueled Orgy" (Thanks, Derek Bledsoe!)

Addenda:

Takuan:

Death by Snoo Snoo!

Jessemoya:

Well, of course he died. What else do you do with your life after you win a $4,000 bet by having sex with two women for 12 hours? Nothing! That's it, you're done. YOU WIN.

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Mindpowered

Now was it this?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/06/15/world/15russia-span-600.jpg

Or This?

http://englishrussia.com/images/soviet_girl_art/8.jpg

The second is worth the 4k in my opinion.
Harrkev

Takuan, you are my hero.
Anonymous

I guess he didn’t tug enough.
Derek Bledsoe

So does this qualify as assisted suicide?
Takuan

three? oh you poor, poor souls of limited imagination, I can have an orgy alone.
mercurytransit

12 hours? I hear that if you have an erection for more than 4 hours your dick turns black and drops off. It was the shock that killed him.
cstatman

he came, and then he went
oneswellfoop

Didn’t happen without pics to prove it!
That is all.
Mindpowered

http://www.ktla.com/common/medialib/image/25682.jpg

Looks like he didn’t have a problem.

Shopping trip. My ass.
TheEvilJeremy

According to this link, there are 30 pills in a bottle of Viagra. I’m pretty sure that exceeds the maximum recommended dosage.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,25113643-13762,00.html
ill lich

Didn’t X have a song about this?

“Sergei Hit and Run Paulina?”

There is one other thing fishy about the story (besides the fact that it sounds too good to be true)– the guy’s name of Tuganov sounds remarkably like the Russian word for “stiff” — tugoy (ignoring how the name sounds in English, of course).
WeightedCompanionCube

“Volkswagen Orgy” sounds like very uncomfortable place…
mikefinch

12 hours? I know i wouldn’t need the Viagra…

Then again I’m a horny freak of nature.
takeshi

@ Antinous:

“I can call it lunar exploration when I jerk off, but it’s not a valid use of the term.”

Accuracy versus understandability, of course. Over time, words can suffer such misuse that new, unintended meanings arise. “Penultimate” is a good example. “Nice” is another one. And from your explanation, one is left with the impression that you are not completely unaware that when many people hear the word “tantric,” they immediately think of sex. And not just any sex, but potentially the best kind. Spiritual fucking.

So, the question is: what percentage of English speakers would have to get it wrong before you finally gave in to change? By acknowledging that the association exists, you admit that the instances of misuse are prevalent. I would bet that more than half of the people who use the word “tantric” on a regular basis aren’t referring to religious practices. In the United States, at least. And if you were in the habit of referring to masturbation as lunar exploration, I’m sure that your significant other would know precisely what you meant as you inquired whether he/she wanted to “shoot the moon.”

Our language is becoming less focused on specificity and more dependent on emptily evocative turns of phrase by the second. Witness the nauseating connection between words like “decadent” and “chocolate.” “Bitch” and “girlfriend.” “Bad” and “good.” English is more akin to a sausage factory than a deli in terms of accuracy of expression. In a hundred years’ time, it’ll all be reduced to a series of grunts and whistles.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  So, the question is: what percentage of English speakers would have to get it wrong before you finally gave in to change?
  
  The trouble with that rationale is that it no longer leaves a word to describe actual Tantra. It’s not just a change in meaning, it’s the eradication of the ability to express a concept in a single word. That would fit into the category of cultural imperialism rather than evolution of language.
dtbilek

#77: Well, as far as I understood Viagra causes a stress response in the body making blood vessels constrict

You understand exactly wrong. Sildenafil citrate is a vasodilator not a vasoconstrictor; it increases blood flow to the penis, not restricts it.

Heart attacks when people take boner pills are usually not a result of the pill but rather the guy taking it has some other condition (old dudes, sick dudes, etc) which makes it very inadvisable to have hours-long sex parties. But they do it anyway, so they croak. If they took a Viagra and then ran a marathon they’d probably croak too.
jetfx

A Nigerian dictator is rumoured to have died of heart attack after a Viagra fuelled orgy. At the very least he was real and did die of heart attack.

http://www.expressindia.com/news/ie/daily/19980821/23350964.html
MrJM

“a $4000+ bet from two women that he couldn’t handle a 12-hour sex marathon with them”

I believe everything but the wager. That just doesn’t happen in the real world.

12-hour sex marathon with two women? Ok.

$4000+ bet? Ok.

$4000+ bet about a 12-hour sex marathon with two women? No way.

– MrJM
KurtMac

So he won the bet?
desiredusername

Sounds like puritanical propaganda.
Anonymous

Pics or it didn’t happen
cory

Pfizer’s purpose statement:

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We dedicate ourselves to humanity’s quest for longer, healthier, happier lives through innovation in pharmaceutical and consumer health products.
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Two out of three? Not bad.
Ugly Canuck

Poor little Yeorgi:
Died at the orgy.
Some say that his death was most kind:
Too bad he just didn’t do it, until he went blind.
jessemoya

Well, of course he died. What else do you do with your life after you win a $4,000 bet by having sex with two women for 12 hours? Nothing! That’s it, you’re done. YOU WIN.
Burns!

a.) Pics, or it didn’t happen.
b.) “Serge Tuganov”? Really?
Avram / Moderator

And now they can’t close the coffin.
Takuan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4703166.stm
aldasin

She made a bet She made a bet with her sister who’s a little bit dumb
She could prove it any time all men was scum

Now I don’t mind that she called me a bum,
But I knew right away she was really gonna cum
(so I got down to it)
Takuan

ehhh?
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/02/07/viagra-deaths-worry/
Takuan

Dyna-Mo, Dyna-Mo Hum!
Anonymous

Reminds me of the man show skit, die like a man.

http://g4tv.com/themanshow/videos/15906/Die_Like_a_Man.html?videoCategory_key=26
danyboom

doctors worked on him for two hours.

but were unable to get the smile off his face.

badum bump.
Brainspore

I don’t buy the story for a minute, but I want it to be true so badly.
Versh

Live free or die hard.
Anonymous

Sky-diving, hunting, curing a disease, saving a puppy from a burning building, graduating top of your class: the goal is always the same. Everything an average heterosexual man does in life is meant to impress the opposite sex.

After a man simultaneously pleasures two women for 12 hours straight, there really isn’t anything else left to do. Except maybe simultaneously pleasure 4 women for 24 hours straight, but that would just become work after a while.
jimh

Is referring to him as a stiff being too hard on the guy?
MooseDesign

Its “hard” to feel sorry for him.
bobhughes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra#Sexual_rites
(ewww lol)
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Calling tantra a sexual practice is like calling a Volkswagen an orgy room just because you got lucky in one when you were in high school.
wispsmoke

Bump up Takuan! A Futurama reference closely followed by a Zappa reference… you, sir, are a master of the internetron.
Manooshi

You can get a heart attack and/or stroke on Viagra and the like. These are known and medically documented side-effects.
gladeye

I guess he was hard up for the money.
bcsizemo

The more I think about the bet I’d wager to say it was $4k he had to pay if he lost. His prize was two women for 12 hours… Really that only works out to about $167 per hour per woman. I’d say that’s not bad for two girls willing to do a three way. (Not that I had anything to base that on)
Sean Grimm

Nothing beats the ‘death by snoo snoo’ comment. That sums it up nicely, and made me laugh.
Brainspore

They don’t have “Volkswagen Orgy” workshops for couples at new-agey retreat centers. Tantra might not be an exclusively sexual practice, but it’s a bit of a stretch to call it NON-sexual.

Case in point: would you go to a tantric retreat with your mom?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  They don’t have “Volkswagen Orgy” workshops for couples at new-agey retreat centers.
  
  When the aerobics teacher at the gym makes you close your eyes and breathe for a minute at the beginning of class, that’s not yoga even though that’s how they label the class. Tantra has nothing to do with sex, despite the word being used to market cheesy couples’ workshops. The prostitutes who advertise in the back of the local gay paper call themselves Tantric teachers. I can call it lunar exploration when I jerk off, but it’s not a valid use of the term.
Giovanni

Well, as far as I understood Viagra causes a stress response in the body making blood vessels constrict (hence erection). The active chem in Viagra is pretty well targeted but I would think that if you took enough it would constrict the vessels in your heart and could give you a heart attack.

Its actually a lot like caffeine which if you OD on causes heart complications (I watched a friend get wheeled out in a stretcher because she took caffeine pills)
Anonymous

The mind is willing, but the flesh is spongy…and bruised!
CammoBlammo

@jetfx (#23)

A Nigerian dictator is rumoured to have died of heart attack after a Viagra fuelled orgy. At the very least he was real and did die of heart attack.

A true story involving Viagra and the death of a Nigerian dictator makes me want to reset my spam filter.
robulus

“We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do,” said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

I’d like to think the other female participant identified herself only as Natasha.
Brainspore

@ #49 posted by Antinous / Moderator:

Tantra has nothing to do with sex, despite the word being used to market cheesy couples’ workshops.

Then maybe you should make a correction to the Wikipedia entry on Tantra. It looks like somebody vandalized it.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It’s a Wikipedia entry on a religious practice. You can safely assume that the article will change completely every couple of days. Those things are notorious for edit wars between factions of true believers.
  
  Tantra is a spiritual practice. Some medieval Indian tantric practitioners may have included a sexual component in their rituals. Or they may have been accused of sexual practices to discredit them. Or they may have claimed it to draw attention from the far worse crimes of caste and gender mingling.
  
  Western hippies (yes I said hippies) focused solely on the rumors of tantra as a sexual technique. As in all cases of Western obsession with Eastern practices, gurus showed up to tell them whatever they wanted to hear in return for a generous honorarium. The English Wikipedia entry on tantra is comparable to a hypothetical Hindi counterpart proposing that priests buggering children is the central component of Roman Catholicism. It’s racist and most Indians are appalled by it.
Bekah

Antechinus stuartii – as winter and the breeding season approaches males huddle together in all male nests where testosterone levels soar. During the following two weeks females travel from nest to nest copulating as much as possible with the strongest males. Copulation lasts up to 14 hrs with rivals biting and harassing in attempts to dislodge other males from the female. By the end of the mating season every male has died from stress related illnesses (most are dead within 2 weeks):) true
Anonymous

30 Viagra? … I just wonder if they’ll be able to get the coffin lid closed!
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Community Manager

Aleesmith @65:

The whole thing seems silly. And men always say they’ll last for hours. That usually means about 6 minutes. Tops.

I swear, I swear, you’ve despaired too soon.

Telecustard @67, I was taught in my youth that what distinguishes an orgy from a scene is that at an orgy, there are grapes.
Digital Artz

What a way to go
or is that come?
Crackity Jones

The best kind of bet in my opinion.
Athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs eh?
satman

Wow. He went out with a bang.
Brainspore

Antinous, perhaps we can just agree on the following statement and let it drop:

“Tantra is a spiritual practice which may or may not involve sexual rites depending on the practitioners.”
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I should point out that my annoyance stems from the fact that people constantly ask me what kind of yoga I teach, and when I tell them Tantra, they smirk and glance down at my crotch.
benher

Fictional or not, I’d like to know what are the circumstances exactly that lead up to the making of said bet?

“Hey baby, what’s your sign?”

“My sexy friend and I bet you $4000 you can’t have a 12 hour sex marathon with us”
Takuan

is that why you got that novelty codpiece with the Aliens creature that pops out?
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  Are you starting the circumcision debate again?
Shithead

Worth it!
Anonymous

JETFX: “A Nigerian dictator is rumoured to have died of heart attack after a Viagra fuelled orgy.”

Now there’s just the matter of what to do with all that money in his bank account. Keep an eye on your inbox, someone is bound to receive an email from one of his friends or family – Nigerians are ever so gracious when it comes to sharing money with unknown foreigners.
kaipoaloha

Think rabbit and chuck viagra. What a dummy, now who’s got the money? Bets please, place your bets please!
invictus

Russian online news media is remarkably silent about the story. The only relevant Russian-language hit comes from lenta.co.il (Israeli Russian-language source), which largely echoes the English-language version linked in the OP.

Also, the pun inherent in the name is non-existent in Russian. (Not to mention that the name “Serge” doesn’t exist in Russia, and is an anglicization of the name Ð¡ÐµÑ€Ð³ÐµÐ¹ — Sergey)
TroofSeeker

Maybe the dude just “gave up the ghost” because nothing in his life would ever top that achievement.
MikeFinch, wadda ya think?
Takuan

certainly weeds out the less serious moyles.
Anonymous

“According to KTLA News, he won by downing a bottle of viagra, having sex with them women for two hours until they got sick of it and conceded the bet, and then masturbating for the following 10 hours.”

/corrected
graphicsman

So, after all that, it seems to me that he did NOT win the bet, as he didn’t seem able (in the end) to handle the wagered situation. The big question is this: Are the girls legally able to collect on their win?
aleesmith

The women were paying him 4k??

I suspect that he would have taken the bet if it was just a $1.

The whole thing seems silly. And men always say they’ll last for hours. That usually means about 6 minutes. Tops.
Hosidax

So the way I’m reading it, this guy managed to figured out the only way he could actually loose in that senario…

“You’re on — I’ll bet I can have sex with you two ladies for 12 hours”

(later)

“Oh no! We just had a threesome for only 11 hours — rats! I ‘loose’! haha”.

sheesh.
danwarning

At least he went happy!
dargaud

I think that comes in as close second to “died at 101 shot by jealous husband” in my list.
Takuan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6re_I__HQ
buddy66

Another for Snopes.com.
Ugly Canuck

O Death
Where is thy sting?
Telecustard

It’s not an orgy if there’s only three.
planettom

“If you have an erection lasting more than 4 hours…

…call some more ladies!”
Anonymous

My hero!
Patrick Dodds

“Serge Tuganov” – you sure?
gabejones

Sounds fishy to me. Willing to bet that Viagra was not the only drug involved here. A $4000 sex bet with 2 women sounds like a bunch of cocaine was probably involved as well.
If people could really od on Viagra, I think we’d be in the midst of an epidemic of stuff like this.
TroofSeeker

Tugginoff, Surge- dude sounds like a jagoff.
Guess he had it coming.
GregLondon

In Soviet Russia, Viagra…

oh, never mind.
Brainspore

It’s not an orgy if there’s only three.

Technically that’s the smallest orgy possible.

Antinous, I see how that could get annoying.
presto

That’s the sort of bet I have been waiting for all my adult life. It’s spelled t-a-n-t-r-i-c. Of course if that didn’t work one could always picture Laura Bush to stave off the finish. Actually, I think I’m a lot closer to paying the $4000 than to receiving it.

**____**
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It’s spelled t-a-n-t-r-i-c.
  
  You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
The Lizardman

Sounds like hoax story on the surface but regardless it does finally detail a suicide I can understand, at least by method
Xopher

Yeah, this sounds like an urban legend to me. If not just a hoax. But it IS possible to OD on Viagra, and it WOULD put your heart at risk.

If there were no grain of truth no one would pass it on.
Takuan

Death by Snoo Snoo!
airship

Absolutely true. Same thing happened to me.