Year of the Rooster off to a rousing start in Beijing

Yahoo! News - Condom and Viagra sales soar as Chinese celebrate Lunar New Year :
"BEIJING (AFP) - Sales of condoms and the anti-impotence drug Viagra have skyrocketed in China's capital Beijing as citizens celebrate the annual Lunar New Year festival, state media said.
"On the first day of the Year of the Rooster, drugstores in the city reported daily sales more than double compared with the end of January, the official Xinhua news agency reported."

Trust the French (AFP = Agence France Press) to get this story going round the world. The report seems to say that rising prosperity and a relaxation of traditional social controls have inspired Chinese men to take steps to avoid going off half-cocked as they welcome in the Year of the Rooster with a week-long holiday.