MEN GOING OFF SEX ?

Men are increasingly going off sex due to stress, depression and the inability to talk about their problems, experts have claimed. A team at a relationship counselling service has reported a whopping 40 per cent increase in the number of lazy blokes, admitting that, despite being physically able to have sex, they don’t have any interest. “Men used to come to us with impotence but Viagra has sorted some of that problem. What we have is a lot of men who say, as women did in the fifties: I can have sex, but I don’t want to. It’s not rewarding. Such complaints were unheard of ten years ago. They tend to be men in their thirties, forties and fifties and married. It is a serious issue. It counts as a psychosexual dysfunction, rather than just a relationship problem, because these men haven’t simply gone off their partner but off sex altogether,” a newspaper quoted Peter Bell of the organisation as saying. According to Prof Michael King of the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, depression might be the problem. “Men are most likely to suffer depression between the ages of 30 and 50. One of the explanations is that men are less able to talk about their problems than women, or express their emotions,” he said. Added Prof Cary Cooper of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, “The work culture has gone from nine to five to extremely long hours, which makes for a very stressful life.”