Lost amid the reports of Rush Limbaugh’s recent arrest is the fact that he was returning from the Dominican Republic with a bottle of Viagra.

Why is that significant? Maybe because the Dominican-Viagra connection is not that random:

Evidence of the sex trade is everywhere as men in shorts and sandals duck into rent-by-the-hour “love motels” with Dominican women in bright dresses.

“There is always a demand for sex,” said one Dominican prostitute as she lounged at one of the town’s waterfront bars. “Men will always pay for it, especially in here … where they can get anything they want at a discount.”

Indeed, the Dominican Republic is one of the biggest sex tourism destinations in the world, thanks in part to Internet sites that extol the country as a “single man’s paradise.”

I haven’t heard any explanations as to why Limbaugh was in the Dominican Republic, but it does make me wonder.