Taking spammers up on their offers

Having received enough spam e-mails promising products to “Enhance H.E.R. Seexx m00d” and “M@ke ur g1rl_f1end WANT U,” John Hargrave decided to actually order some aphrodisiacs and test them. (“I am the perfect test subject,” he writes, “since I have never once aroused sexual desire in any female.”) Writing on the comedy Web site Zug, Hargrave says that while “Athena Pheromone 10X” might have worked for ancient pagan goddesses, it had no noticeable effect on his living modern wife or on strangers in the subway.