Impotent Thirtysomethings; It's an Epidemic

Here’s a puzzle for today. Why are so many thirtysomething British men suffering from impotence, i. e. from erectile dysfunction? Apparently this liberated generation, chockablock with patriarchal sexual predators who can’t keep it in their pants, is suffering from an epidemic of ED. Who could have imagined such a thing?

We note that it's not much better for the twentysomethings, where 35% are impotent.

The London Mirror reports the bad news:

Half of men in their 30s struggle to get an erection, studies have shown.

Surprise polling reveals this age group is most likely to struggle keeping it up, with 49% blaming stress and 24% blaming boozing too much.

Almost a third have broken up with their partner as a result.

Nearly half (43%) of men aged 18-60 across the UK are suffering impotence, with four in ten men blaming stress, followed by tiredness (36%), anxiety (29%) and boozing too heavily (26%).

Researchers polled 2,000 men for Coop Pharmacy and found largest affected age group of men with erectile dysfunction is those in their thirties, with half (50%) reporting difficulties getting or maintaining an erection.

This compares to 42% in their 40s, 41% in their 50s, and 35% of under 30s.

Half? 50%. This is the hookup generation, the let it all hang out generation, a generation that sees men and women as absolute equals, a generation brought up on a constant diet of porn. The result: half are suffering from ED.

Medical professionals think that this will be solved if only we have more public discussions of it. That is, more public humiliation. What would we do without experts?

In truth, the media has been offering up Viagra ads for decades now. Even a distinguished retired senator, Bob Dole, took to hawking the ED drug.

If we wanted to be churlish, we would also note that these young men belong to a generation that has been educated in a school system that is run by feminists. They have been systematically beaten down in order to make girls feel better about themselves. And they have been taught that their masculinity is toxic.

Might it be the case that they have learned their lessons, only too well? For all I know they face a choice between being sexual harassers and erectile dysfunction. And yet, for all I know, they improve their sexual function when they are behaving boorishly toward women.

And of course these men are dealing with strong, empowered women who assert themselves, who lean in, who know what they want and who insist on getting it. Did anyone imagine that a woman who leans in and who aggressively asserts her wants and needs is less attractive to men than a woman who deploys the feminine mystique.

Just a thought for today.