Impotence Has Been Around For A Long Time

It was not considered important for a man to sexually satisfy his women...

While it is true that the heavy pressures of modern life in big cities can make a man suffer from erectile dysfunction, this does not mean that erectile dysfunction is some sort of new disease. It has been around since the birth of man and the it is likely to stay until the end of time. The Greeks and Romans made constant references to erectile dysfunction normally when they wanted to insult their enemies. Being called impotent in Ancient Rome or in Ancient Greece was considered to be the most degrading and denigrating insult that one man could pay another.

Both these great and civilized nations placed great emphasis on physical fitness and health and a man was considered to be more of a man is he had sex on a regular basis whether it was with his wife, his servants or in fact anything. The stigma attached to homosexuality in Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece was non-existent and the only terrible thing a man could do was to perform cunnilingus on a woman. It was not considered important for a man to sexually satisfy his women, but merely to be able to satisfy himself on a regular basis.

These days men are put under increasing pressure to sexually service their women and this in itself can cause a man to get nervous and anxious and thus suffer from erectile dysfunction. When this happens it is known as performance anxiety and it appears to be far more prevalent in modern society is than it was previously. However one must always be careful when looking at statistics as it is only recently that a lot of figures and facts about erectile dysfunction have come out into the open as previously the subject was so taboo that very little research was done with it.