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The story
The erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment drug “Cialis” can now be purchased at pharmacies through pharmacist-assisted, face-to-face sales without a doctor’s prescription. According to a survey by manufacturer SS Pharmaceutical, more than 30% of men in their 20s say they’ve had people joke about their ED, and there are calls to create an environment where people can more easily discuss sexual health concerns. On 5ch, threads gathered a wide range of reactions — skepticism about that “30%” figure, discomfort with the very phrase “joke about it,” theories on why men in their 20s would even have ED (with porn and masturbation habits often blamed), and personal accounts of online medical consultations.
The treatment drug for erectile dysfunction (ED), a condition unique to men, called “Cialis,” can now be purchased at pharmacies and drugstores through pharmacist-assisted, face-to-face sales — no doctor’s diagnosis or prescription required.
■ A Shift in Awareness Is Needed
According to a survey by manufacturer SS Pharmaceutical, more than 30% of men in their 20s say others have joked about their ED. There are calls for a shift in awareness so that sexual health concerns can be understood scientifically.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Reeks of fake stats.
Is "chakasareta" (getting teased/mocked) even a real word, or is that some regional dialect thing??
What on earth are you even trying to say?
Wait, seriously?
So half of all men have ED??
Old guys pop Viagra and end up hurting their wives, who then need medical treatment and rack up costs — why is it always men who get the special treatment?
It's literally erectile dysfunction, so… yeah, that counts, doesn't it?
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back then you were basically a walking jackhammer.
I was rock hard year-round back then, chasing girls' butts lol
My libido hasn't dropped one bit even in my 50s —
is this payback for barely getting laid when I was young……
Seriously, I'm running at full power pretty much all the time.
It gave me headaches, so I switched to taking vardenafil 30 minutes beforehand.
I feel that
I'm into gyaru girls, so
it got to the point where only increasingly cute gyaru types do anything for me
just "kind of cute" doesn't cut it anymore at all.
Honestly, 2D and AI stuff has gotten so good now
that getting off to that feels better than the real thing.
There was a guy who once dropped the famous line "I like the female body, I just don't like women" —
but now it seems even the female body itself is fine as a virtual substitute lol
It's not about romantic feelings, but even at a brothel I can never finish with someone I'm meeting for the first time
the anxiety outweighs everything, and I can tell I'm just not relaxed
if I talk a lot the first time and get them to understand my preferences, I can usually finish by the second visit.
and ADD and ADHD too
Japanese people are bad with English, so what's even the point
The worst one is AED — it's a critical emergency device and yet look at this name
hard to remember, people mix it up, and nobody even knows what it stands for.
Funny how it's always the people who know the least who butt in the most
What are you even trying to prove?
Over AEDs of all things.
Isn't the full name — "automated external defibrillator" — even harder to make sense of?
And it's not like you can shorten it the easy way, the way "word processor" became "wapuro" in Japanese.
But is it intentional that the counselor, the doctor, and the nurse were all women? Having them say things like "erection" and "penis" to me was embarrassing.
Probably because that gets more repeat customers — meaning more guys are happier hearing it from a female doctor, I'd guess.
Male staff probably have more hang-ups about it
which, put another way, means less professionalism
Women can separate out any embarrassment with an "it's just the job" mindset
which you could call more professional, really
It's a decent workplace with decent pay, so treating it as just another "object" to deal with, without feeling much, is probably how they see it.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
In Japan, ED treatment drugs previously required a doctor’s prescription, but now “Cialis” can be bought without one, through pharmacist-assisted, face-to-face sales at pharmacies. It’s easy to overlook that this isn’t purely a self-service purchase — a consultation at the pharmacy counter is still required. What split opinion in the thread was the reliability of the survey figure claiming that over 30% of men in their 20s have been teased about ED, with many voicing skepticism that it doesn’t match their own sense of reality, while plenty of others shared personal accounts blaming porn habits, masturbation habits, or the nervousness of visiting brothels. The article’s claim that “roughly 1 in 2 men has ED” was also met with surprise.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “More Than 30% of Men in Their 20s Have Been “Teased About ED” — Drug Goes Over-the-Counter, Calls to Make It Easier to Talk About: Thinking Together About What Compassion Looks Like.”
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