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MALE MENOPAUSE: INTRODUCTION (LOW LIBIDO)
12 March 2009
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Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction
In complete contrast to this ever-ready man however, the male-menopause can just as easily make a man withdraw totally from sex, especially if he already has a low libido. He will have a lack of drive, sexual urge and erection caused by reaction to the build-up of the emotional disturbances brought on by M-M. He loses all interest in sex but is, and this is important, psychologically disinterested and not incapable physically. After the crisis sexlife should resume.
Unlike a woman’s menopause which is essentially due to physical change, the man’s menopause is due entirely to the emotional crisis that upsets him at this turning point, the middle years of his life. As there is no noticeable hormonal change he becomes sexually neither infertile nor incapable, nor do his testicles shrink — no matter what old wives’ tales might suggest. Whatever the rigours of his crisis he remains as virile as ever he was and should he switch off interest in sex, the switching off is temporary.
As for hormonal change, yes, there is a decline in the production of testosterone (the male hormone) but the decline is so slight and insignificant (and caused by the aging process not M-M) that it makes not one jot of difference to erection, performance, reproduction and enjoyment. Any sexual problems at this time are related entirely to outside matters like stress, not genitalia.
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