MALE MENOPAUSE: THE NO-GO COMPLEX (DIFFICULT AGE)
Redundancy from work is also a shattering blow for a man around his forties, the experience of losing his job hard to bear. At this age he sees the loss as a personal accusation or criticism of his work ability and knows there are few opportunities open to him for re-employment. With a death knell ringing over his work potential, sexlife hardly matters.
If a man is what is termed by many therapists as ’sex-lazy’ his sexlife can tail off permanently.
Many men whose libidos are low are often considered sex-lazy too. They see sex as a burden they can well do without. For them sex is the occasional and rare performance they feel they have to give as a token of the physical proof they know their partners expect of them or, if they come from a religious background, simply as an activity to be enjoyed exclusively as a means to further procreation. Perhaps through either ignorance or lack of adventure for these men sex is not quite what they thought it would be so never do they feel a particular urge rising in them anyway. Perhaps their partners are sex-lazy too and delighted in their man’s disinterest. In no time our sex-lazy man can retire from sex altogether, a retirement he looks forward to. The less he practises, the less likely he is to become sexually stimulated or active ever again.
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