KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 14 -- A Mexican man has been hospitalised for having a prolonged erection after taking a sexual stimulant used for breeding bulls.

The man, whose name and age are unknown, has undergone an emergency surgery at Specialist Hospital 270 at the United States-Mexico border city of Reynosa after checking in with the persistent condition that lasted three days.

According to a Mexican newspaper La Repablica, the man is believed to have taken the stimulant to prep himself for a sex session with a 30-year-old woman.

The man is reported to have travelled to Veracruz, in east Mexico, to purchase the stimulant used for cattle.

"He had taken a sexual stimulant which he had bought in Veracruz, used by farmers in that region to inv...