One of the most common causes of erectile dysfunction is performance anxiety. Put simply, as men age, they begin to lose confidence that the erections of their youth will continue. It only takes one or two failures to get an erection hard enough for penetration and the worry starts to build. Soon, the worry becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. The anxiety takes over and erections fade away.
If you asked men to identify all their phobias, fear of sexual failure would
obviously be high on the list. So much male self-esteem is wrapped up in the ability to be successful in the bedroom. But there's also a widespread fear of spiders. Rightly or wrongly, many men find the presence of a spider disconcerting if not actually frightening. This despite the fact that, in the northern hemisphere, almost all the varieties of spiders are completely harmless. It seems to have something to do with the number of legs and the speed of the creatures.
This is the time to start talking about Brazil. Not only has it hit the headlines because Rio has been selected as the venue for the Olympics in 2016, it's also the home of Phoneutria nigriventer, better known as the wandering spider. For those of you who like statistics, this is one of the most venomous spiders in the world and it's responsible for the deaths of many (no-one actually does a reliable count of the fatalities). However, there's a very good reason for overcoming your fear of this spider. When it sinks its fangs dripping with venom into a man, it not only puts the victim on the road to possible death unless treated, it also causes a long-lasting erection. In theory, this could make it a very pleasurable way to die except the erection apparently grows painful over time.
Attracted by news of this spider, US scientists have been injecting the venom into rats. There's now clear clinical evidence that an active component of the venom relaxes blood vessels. This makes it a potential life-saving drug to reduce high blood pressure and, as a side effect, also treat erectile dysfunction. Pharmaceutical companies are therefore lining up to investigate this venom. The reason for the interest is that it's a completely different chemical from levitra and the other drugs currently used to treat erectile dysfunction. The idea of developing a completely different class of drugs from a natural source makes this a very attractive commercial venture.
Until the development work is completed and FDA approval won, men will just have to struggle on with levitra. After all, it only produces six hours of sexual responsiveness from the "as needed" version taken by men with a wide range of different physical and psychological problems. In other words, levitra effectively has the erectile dysfunction market sewn up and it will take something phenomenal from the spider to beat it. But the potential applications to treat diseases of blood vessels, high blood pressure and heart disease may make the spiders the overall winners. It is possible that overcoming the fear of spiders may really pay health and stock dividends in the long run.
If you asked men to identify all their phobias, fear of sexual failure would
obviously be high on the list. So much male self-esteem is wrapped up in the ability to be successful in the bedroom. But there's also a widespread fear of spiders. Rightly or wrongly, many men find the presence of a spider disconcerting if not actually frightening. This despite the fact that, in the northern hemisphere, almost all the varieties of spiders are completely harmless. It seems to have something to do with the number of legs and the speed of the creatures.
This is the time to start talking about Brazil. Not only has it hit the headlines because Rio has been selected as the venue for the Olympics in 2016, it's also the home of Phoneutria nigriventer, better known as the wandering spider. For those of you who like statistics, this is one of the most venomous spiders in the world and it's responsible for the deaths of many (no-one actually does a reliable count of the fatalities). However, there's a very good reason for overcoming your fear of this spider. When it sinks its fangs dripping with venom into a man, it not only puts the victim on the road to possible death unless treated, it also causes a long-lasting erection. In theory, this could make it a very pleasurable way to die except the erection apparently grows painful over time.
Attracted by news of this spider, US scientists have been injecting the venom into rats. There's now clear clinical evidence that an active component of the venom relaxes blood vessels. This makes it a potential life-saving drug to reduce high blood pressure and, as a side effect, also treat erectile dysfunction. Pharmaceutical companies are therefore lining up to investigate this venom. The reason for the interest is that it's a completely different chemical from levitra and the other drugs currently used to treat erectile dysfunction. The idea of developing a completely different class of drugs from a natural source makes this a very attractive commercial venture.
Until the development work is completed and FDA approval won, men will just have to struggle on with levitra. After all, it only produces six hours of sexual responsiveness from the "as needed" version taken by men with a wide range of different physical and psychological problems. In other words, levitra effectively has the erectile dysfunction market sewn up and it will take something phenomenal from the spider to beat it. But the potential applications to treat diseases of blood vessels, high blood pressure and heart disease may make the spiders the overall winners. It is possible that overcoming the fear of spiders may really pay health and stock dividends in the long run.
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