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Lifestyle and Diet
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Normal sex relation is necessary in healthy life and gives physical and psychological pleasure for the couple. Dysfunction of sex relation is a problem in most of societies and it has a significant effect on mental and physical health. It can be said that dysfunctional sex relation may result in various family problems (3). Bad sex relation and infertility may be due to many lifestyle factors such as bad diet, lack of exercise, sleep loss, obesity, stress, cigarette smoking, alcoholism, and also other diseases of a couple (104). Some plant foods such as galangal and ginseng tubers have stimulant effects on sexual appetite. In both Chinese and Ayurvedic (Indian) traditional medicine since ancient times, galangal tubers like Alpinia galanga and Alpinia officinarum were and are still used as aphrodisiacs for both sexes (105). Wild Korean ginseng tuber and red ginseng are also used as stimulants for sexual appetite in traditional medicine (106–107). Sildenafil or Viagra (brand name) is a medication used to treat erectile dysfunction in men, but it has many side effects such as headache, flushing, dyspepsia, respiratory tract infection, nasal congestion, and cardiovascular problems especially in cardiac people (108). Acupuncture might treat some forms of infertility in men and women, but it is not recognized by Western medicine, and the results obtained depend on the acupuncturist. Consult a healthcare specialist if you have a sexual problem.
The twentieth century
Published in Michael J. O’Dowd, The History of Medications for Women, 2020
By the end of the 1980s the drug armamentarium for the treatment of impotence included imipramine, naftidrofuryl, papaverine, phenoxybenzamine, phenotolamine, prostaglandin El, thyroxamine, and verapamil. The mid–1990s saw the introduction of new drugs that worked by enhancing nitric oxide-mediated relaxation of the smooth muscle of the corpus cavernosal (Boolell et al., 1996; Gingell et al., 1996; Eardley et al., 1996). Trials on one such drug, sildenafil (Viagra) showed a response rate of almost 90% in men with erectile dysfunction of no organic cause. Sildenafil is a type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitor that causes the release of nitric oxide, an essential part of the erectile process. Early reports suggested that it could produce an effective response in almost 90% of patients who presented with psychological erectile dysfunction. Although there were a number of side-effects, priapism (a problem with intracavernosal injections) was not reported with Viagra. (Priapism, is penile erection sustained for more than six hours, and requires expert attention.)
Men and sexual health
Published in Laura Serrant-Green, John McLuskey, Alan White, The Sexual Health of Men, 2018
Laura Serrant-Green, John McLuskey, Alan White
It is important to note that the recent notable exception to this is the attention given to male erectile dysfunction following the launch of sildenafil citrate (Viagra) onto the UK market in September 1998. In one sense the publicity given to erectile dysfunction did, as usual, focus on the physical aspects of male sexual functioning. However, the launch of Viagra was significant, because it not only signalled a change by primarily highlighting men’s sexual health but appeared to initiate open discussion of the psychosocial impact of the consequences of poor sexual health on men. However, like the earlier attention given to HIV, the contexts in which the benefits of Viagra emerged to be incorporated into discussions of men’s sexual health contain cautionary notes. Viagra, its efficiency in treating erectile dysfunction and the possible benefits for men’s sexual health emerged as a bi-product of using the drug as a treatment for hypertension, for which it was originally designed.14 While the discovery of additional benefits of a drug for other conditions is not unique, the mass publicity given to Viagra led to increased demands for the product.15
Can the Extraordinary Become Ordinary? Re-Examining the Ethics of ECMO-DT
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2023
Eric J. Kim, Jonathan M. Marron
To use ECMO as either a bridge or destination therapy would be little different than using a medication for either of two separate indications, which happens quite frequently. In some cases, the repurposing of medications is foreseen and intentional. For example, male children with certain hormone-related mutations were noted to have smaller prostates and a reduced risk of male pattern baldness; finasteride was eventually developed and approved to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia and, five years later, male pattern baldness (Zito, Bistas, and Syed 2022). In other cases, medications’ alternative purposes are found only accidentally. Sildenafil (brand name: Viagra) was originally intended as a cardiovascular drug but now is much more widely used for its incidentally identified ability to treat erectile dysfunction (Goldstein et al. 2019). One of the medical profession’s most laudable features is its open-mindedness to the novel and the unexpected in its pursuit of innovation and advancement. We urge the profession to channel that same willingness to explore novel and even, perhaps, radical (but potentially beneficial) applications of interventions such as ECMO-DT.
Men’s Feminist Identification and Reported Use of Prescription Erectile Dysfunction Medication
Published in The Journal of Sex Research, 2023
Given the continued link between sexual activity and masculinity (see also Walker, 2020), EDM use can be a way for men to bolster their masculinity, particularly (but not exclusively) for men in midlife and older adulthood (Grace et al., 2006). As Loe (2004, p. 61) noted, “Viagra appears to be a medical and pharmaceutical attempt to restore, cement, and ‘fix’ masculine confidence, power, and potency.” EDM has narrowed standards for what is considered normal male sexuality (Marshall, 2006; Potts et al., 2004; Wentzell, 2017). From her review of social science literature about ED, Wentzell (2017, p. 498) concluded, “culturally and historically specific ideas about what counts as healthy and normal sexuality, aging, and masculinity are embedded in men’s sexual health drugs, treatments, and marketing.”3Given that understandings of ED differ by cultural context, not all older men feel that ED is a problem: some working-class urban Mexican men, for instance, accept decreased erectile abilities and refocus on emotional connection to loved ones (Wentzell, 2013). Similarly, both EDM and traditional Chinese medicine are popular among Chinese men because many view them as addressing different but overlapping needs related to ED (Zhang, 2007; see also Agunbiade & Ayotunde, 2012, for related findings among the Yoruba people).
Gender differences in risk taking behaviors for Chlamydia trachomatis
Published in Health Care for Women International, 2020
Loucine Huckabay, Dennis G. Fisher, Grace L. Reynolds, Debby Rannalli, Erlyana Erlyana
There is one report of a study of adolescent women in Alabama who were depressed and took Ecstasy who were likely to have incident CT infection (Jackson et al., 2015). There have been several reports of methamphetamine use being a risk factor for STIs in general, but a more specific association between methamphetamine and CT has also been reported (Reback & Fletcher, 2018). Alabama investigators showed no association between erectile dysfunction medication and CT (Heudebert et al., 2019). We have been unable to find any reports of an association between ecstasy (methylenedioxymethamphetamine MDMA) use and CT infection in men. However, researchers have reported an association between ecstasy use and use of the erectile dysfunction medication of Viagra (sildenafil) (Wei et al., 2012).