Do you think younger men worry about losing their hair? If you ask them they will all state some great-sounding reasons about the judgement of society and discriminating, but it really all comes down to sex. Young men wish to look attractive to women. Even when they have talked their way into a steady relationship, they remain confident about their ability to find another partner should this one fail to live up to expectations. The problem starts in the following situation. In our culture men are thought to look older if they are losing their hair. And this is not unreasonable. It’ snatural for men to lose their hair as they get older. But if a man founds himself the singles market, hair loss is going to slow down the recruitment of his next partner. Well, unless he happens to be rich.. Somehow, rich men never seem to have a problem in finding willing women no matter how much hair they have. Since the majority of men do not have the odd million or so as pocket change, keeping up appearances becomes very important. How else is a man to ensure his genes get carried forward into the next generation unless he keeps his hair?
Here there’ s a different problem. Standard treatments for male baldness has been through extensive clinical trials. This gives us the ground to say, with the usual certainty, that the medication is effective. It works by preventing testosterone changing into dihydrotestosterone, i.e. it changes the way in which the male hormone system works. Unfortunately if you mess with the hormones, it can affect the sex. Not more than 1% of men going through the trials suffered erectile dysfunction, but nearly 7% experienced ejaculation problems. In some, this was a volume thing, i.e. less came out which is not so bad if you don’t want children – a kind of male birth control pill, indeed. In others, there was some muscular discomfort. Only one or two men had any real pain in their testicles while “at rest” or during sex.
All said before doesn’t really mean that Propecia is unsafe or dangerous. This hair growth pill has been proved a highly effective treatment to prevent tumors in the prostate from growing into something dangerous. So, if are already on Propecia course, you will be safe from anything too heavy appearing in your groin. Though perhaps you have to face the possibility of a terrible choice – to keep your hair and the chance of seeing some hair grow back, or to find sex difficult, including the possibility of not producing enough sperm to become a father. As the title to the article says, if you want the looks, it can be a shame about the sex. You should know that Propecia is the same as several other pills that have such possible side effect as erectile dysfunction. The percentage of men actually affected by sexual difficulties is reasonably small. But it is something you may have to face. Fortunately, this side effect from Propecia is purely temporary – a month or so after stopping, you will be back to normal.