Struggling to perform on Valentine’s
Image: Some men have difficulty rising to the occasion on Valentine's Day
As Valentine’s Day looms, nervous men across Australia will have their performance in the bedroom plaguing their minds.
Désirée Spierings, sex therapist and director of Sexual Health Australia, says she will receive an increased number of enquiries about erectile dysfunction in the lead-up to and the aftermath of Valentine’s Day.
“Additionally we see that after Christmas, New Year’s, or any holidays that there are slightly more requests for counselling,” she told City News.
“Valentine’s Day for a couple is often a time when they review their relationship status, what has been good or amazing, and what could possibly be better. Working on their sex life and improving things can be part of their New Year’s resolution or a Valentine’s Day promise.”
These worried men aren’t just restricted to Australia, either. In the US the week preceding Valentine’s Day in 2010 had the highest demand for Viagra that year, with 26 per cent more pills distributed in that time than during the lowest-demand week, according to NBC news.
In the UK, Valentine’s Day has been branded as “National Impotence Day” in an attempt to raise awareness of the condition. According to Google, searches for “erectile dysfunction” around the globe peaked during January and February of the last few years, and are forecast to peak again at the same time next year.
Spierings recommends that men who think they may be suffering from erectile dysfunction get themselves checked out, because the penis is “basically a barometer of a man’s health”.
