Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sexual Dysfunction in Men Linked to Partner's Friendship with Males

Sexual dysfunction is rampant these days when our lifestyle and way of living has become very irregular. This dysfunction is often the result of a condition called as erectile dysfunction. There are several studies that have been conducted recently and according to one of those, there have been found a revealing fact about male impotency. It is observed that erectile dysfunction is more prominently found in males in situations when there female partners share strong relationships with their male friends.

Benjamin Cornwell, professor of sociology at Cornell University and Edward Laumann, professor of sociology at the University of Chicago has come up with a new conclusion. They say that there is a condition known as “partner betweenness” wherein a man’s female partner share a stronger rapport than he himself with his male friends. This causes the female romantic partner to come in between the man and his friends.

According to these expert scientists from renowned Universities, the syndrome of ‘partner betweenness’ can dampen a man’s feelings of autonomy and privacy, which are central to traditional concepts of virility.

For conducting this study, data was taken from over 3,000 Americans whose age range from 57 to 85 years. Amongst them, around one fourth of the men were seen to have experienced ‘partner betweenness’. This problem occurs mostly in men whose ages range between 57 and 64, a transition time when partners genuinely feel the need of each other. This is the time when sex plays a very important role as partners lose the usual grip over their youth zest.

Edward Laumann quoted in Chicago Sun-Times “This is when people are retiring, leaving the work force, reorganizing their life. This is very threatening to a male’s understanding of himself,” he also observes that it is not the mere taking of pills that leads to such adverse effects on the erectile dysfunction. The reason is deep within. Social and psychological reasons lead to such conditions in men. Erectile dysfunction medicines such as Viagra or Kamagra

He additionally said that this excessive attachment with the husband’s friends and repetitive alignment with their thoughts and ideals dampen the spirits of their husbands and leads to identity loss and lack of self confidence. This in turn leads to the inability to perform sexually as his mind is already doomed into diffidence.

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