Psychology Today: When Men Suffer Low Sex Drive
… It contradicts all the cultural beliefs we have about the way men are and/or are supposed to be, but the dirty little secret is… American men are flagging in their desire for sex.
“Men are so ashamed of speaking up about low sexual desire,” observes Michele Weiner-Davis, a marriage therapist from the Chicago area. It violates their own sense of masculinity. But “low desire in men is America’s best-kept secret,” she says, and estimates that it affects “at least 20 to 25%” of adult males.
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But it strikes terror into the heart of a guy to even think he might not be interested, because his sense of self is usually tied up in his virility. So no one has real information on just how many men are affected.
Nevertheless, there appears to be a great and growing gap between the reality of the current state of male desire and the cultural mythology surrounding it. Men are more and more having it less and less. Weiner-Davis is seeing it among the couples who turn up at her door for help. …
