Men who take drugs are more likely to have performance issues in the bedroom – even years after they stop taking them.
New research has overturned previous thinking that the body recovers in a matter of weeks, issuing a fresh warning to men who take illegal substances or drink heavily.
Men who had taken drugs had moderately to significantly impaired sexual performance while sexual dysfunction depends on type of drug taken
During the study, published in the prestigious Journal of Sexual Medicine, the researchers assessed the sexual performance of 906 men.
550 of them had been diagnosed with an addiction to either alcohol, or drugs although they were not dependent at the time of the study.
The other 356 men had not drunk heavily and had not taken drugs.
The researchers, from the University of Granada, Spain, and Santo Tomas University in Colombia, examined and evaluated four areas of sexual performance: sexual desire, sexual satisfaction, sexual arousal and orgasm. They found that alcohol and drug users had ‘moderately to significantly impaired sexual performance‘ compared to their ‘clean’ counterparts.
Alcohol was found to be the worst offender for erectile dysfunction, whereas men who took drugs had delay as well as difficulty in achieving orgasm.
Different substances affect sexuality differently. Even prescription drugs can affect sexual function. Selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors – a modern family of antidepressants including Prozac, Seroxat and sertraline – cause a loss of libido and delayed orgasm in the majority of people who take them. These drugs work by increasing levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that stimulates certain receptors in the brain to improve mood. In fact, these drugs are sometimes prescribed to patients suffering from premature ejaculation too.
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