College kids are suddenly talking about taking “honey packets” for sex… and no, I don’t mean the gooey thing bees make that tastes delicious on your avocado toast. Men in college are apparently taking erectile dysfunction (ED) medications being packaged as “honey packets” not because they need it but because they’re trying to… well, sweeten their performance in bed.
In a TikTok video from @asuchicks, Arizona State University Students were asked, “What’s something at ASU that would send a BYU student into a coma?” For a little context here, BYU or Brigham Young University is a Mormon-majority school where almost every kid doesn’t drink alcohol (or coffee, for that matter), engage in sex, or curse. All of the students that attend BYU are pretty religious. And so, when the ASU students responded that honey packets would probably send a BYU student into a coma, you could already guess that it was over something NSFW (or school, for that matter). And apparently, whatever these honey packets were, they were popular because one student said he took four a night.
What’s In The Sex Honey Packets?
As delicious as honey is, college students aren’t just taking regular honey multiple times a night for sex. These honey packets, much like those “Pink Pussycat” pills, are sold at gas stations and liquor stores and are filled with unregulated ED meds like tadalafil.
The FDA has been warning people about these products basically since 2017 — and for good reason. Just last year, four companies got slapped with warning letters for selling honey products with “hidden pharmaceutical ingredients.”
Now, I know college is typically the time people experiment with drugs in their lives (of course, unless you go to BYU), but just smoke weed like everyone else because taking ED meds when you don’t need them isn’t harmless. Sure, most people just experience minor side effects like headaches or a stuffy nose, but there’s a chance of more serious side effects like dizziness, hearing problems, and even priapism — AKA an erection that lasts longer than four hours. And I can tell you right now, no one is enjoying that.
Plus, surprise, surprise, these honey packets aren’t FDA-approved, so you actually have no idea how much medication you’re actually consuming. And if you’re already taking any sort of other medications — or, you know, drinking — you don’t know how these honey packets would react with whatever you’re already taking. But I mean, no college student ever mixed alcohol with sex, right?
College is a time when a lot of people are having sex for the first time in their lives, so I get that performance anxiety probably has to do a lot with why students are suddenly turning to this honey — but I promise there are better ways. Instead of reaching for unregulated honey packets filled with ED meds, you should have real conversations with your partner about your expectations in bed. And unless you’re having some sexy fun with food, let’s just keep any and all honey out of the bedrooms, okay?