Hot on the heels of Sunday's New York Times Magazine article on the anti-contraception movement comes this little tidbit in the Washington Post style section, implying that sexually voracious females are causing erectile dysfunction among college-aged men:
It seems that for a sizable number of young men, the fact that they can get sex whenever they want may have created a situation where, in fact, they're unable to have sex. According to surveys, young women are now as likely as young men to have sex and by countless reports are also as likely to initiate sex, taking away from males the age-old, erotic power of the chase.
"I know lots of girls for whom nothing is off limits," says Helen Czapary, a junior at the University of Maryland. "The pressure on the guys is a huge deal."
Combine performance anxiety with binge drinking and the abuse of drugs on campus and it's no wonder that problems are showing up at college clinics in numbers that give the lie to the adage that impotence is reserved for the old (Bob Dole) or crazy (Jack Nicholson in "Carnal Knowledge"). The younger models who now appear in commercials for Viagra and its pharmaceutical clones reveal that the drug makers know (hope?) what the rest of us don't: Some members of the Game Boy generation are losing their game.
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Jon Pryor, head of urologic surgery at the University of Minnesota, tells medical students that 30 percent of his patients with erectile dysfunction, or ED, are under 30 years old. Other specialists note that the proportion of men experiencing at least occasional problems increases steadily with age, to 70 percent of men over 70.
In certain young men, impotence can be a result of diabetes, cardiovascular disease or other organic problems. But for students such as the ones Brodie and other mental health professionals see, experts point to lifestyle. An increasing number of students arrive on campus taking antidepressants, some of which reduce libido and sexual function. They consume larger amounts of alcohol at one time than in years past, killing performance. Smoking, lack of exercise and anxiety also may be factors.
Demands by their female partners also contribute, according to educators such as Robin Sawyer, who teaches human sexuality at the University of Maryland. Sawyer recalls a young man who came to his office after class one day confessing that he hadn't been physically aroused in more than two years. "He was 20 years old, good-looking," Sawyer says. "I told him once he was in a relationship, things would get better. He said he could never get to the relationship because when he went out with a woman, she wanted to have sex almost immediately. He never got comfortable enough to tell them he had a problem, so he stopped dating."
One can argue that a young woman speaking her mind is a sign of equality. "That's a good thing," says Sawyer, father of four daughters. "But for some guys, it has come at a price. It's turned into ED in men you normally wouldn't think would have ED."
So....is Sawyer saying, then, that the only situation which doesn't cause this sort of anxiety in men is an unwilling partner? No wonder we find date rape on college campuses then.
Are males really so fragile that a woman speaking her mind causes Little Willie to sag into a sodden heap? If that's the case, then perhaps men just aren't mentally or emotionally strong enough to run everything as they have, and we've all been scammed for lo these thousands of years -- and it certainly explains the obsession with bombs and war among certain U.S. government leaders.
One has to wonder what the effect of hormones and pesticides in the food supply has to do with not just erectile problems in young men whom we wouldn't think would have such problems, but also the increase in incidence of male breast cancer and decreases in male sperm counts specifically in rural areas where people are exposed to more pesticides.
But then, it's so much easier, and so much more in keeping with the Christofascist anti-sex agenda to blame the women, isn't it? After all, reducing or eliminating the use of hormones and pesticides in the food supply might cause a hardship to corporations, and if you have a choice between doing something constructive, or blaming women, well, that's a no-brainer in George W. Bush's America.
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