Erection problems
Common beliefs about erection problems
Erection problems are uncommon
This is untrue – most men simply do not talk about it. A survey sponsored by the pharmaceutical company Pharmacia & Upjohn found that more than 1 in 4 of the UK male population over the age of 16 has experienced erectile disorder to some degree. Of these, over half experienced the problem as one-off incidents and a quarter suffered erectile disorder most or all of the time. There are probably 20 million men with erection problems in the USA, and 2–3 million in the UK.
Erection problems are usually psychological
This is an old-fashioned view; impotence is most commonly due to a physical cause.
