sex stimulants outside the Sabon-Gari market in Kano, northern Nigeria's

A vendor of herbal aphrodisiacs, Hamisu Muhammad, 50, uses a loudspeaker on June 6, 2009 to advertise sex stimulants on a major street of Kano, northern Nigeria's commercial capital. Men trying to keep several wives happy and women competing with co-wives for their husbands' attentions has led to a boom in the sale of herbal aphrodisiacs in predominantly Moslem northern Nigeria. Women not satisfied with their husband's sexual performance also come for the drugs if their husbands are embarrassed to do so. The drugs come in all forms -- liquid, jelly and powder and are taken orally or rubbed on the penis. The recipes are handed down from father to son and are a jealously guarded secret


A vendor of herbal aphrodisiacs Muhammad Ma'aruf, 65, displays on June 6, 2009 sex stimulants outside the Sabon-Gari market in Kano, northern Nigeria's commercial capital. Men trying to keep several wives happy and women competing with co-wives for their husbands' attentions has led to a boom in the sale of herbal aphrodisiacs in predominantly Moslem northern Nigeria. Women not satisfied with their husband's sexual performance also come for the drugs if their husbands are embarrassed to do so. The drugs come in all forms -- liquid, jelly and powder and are taken orally or rubbed on the penis. The recipes are handed down from father to son and are a jealously guarded secret.