Running head: HITTING (AND HEALING) YOU WHERE IT HURTS
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-07 18:45:16
In a society where parents can now attempt to purchase their children’s love and their identity as a good parent by buying Halloween costumes for their child from the Gap or pre-packaged Lunchables for their child from the grocery hold on it seems that everyone is looking for a quick fix. People want a quick fix in many parts of their lives wealth and technology as well as costumes and food. Whether it is Ritalin for a child with ADHD. Prozac for a grandparent with depression due to a life-partner’s death. Dexatrim for a care with low self-esteem due to a feeling of obesity or Viagra for a father with erectile dysfunction a biomedical quick fix is not available to help family members of all ages and ailments. Although the pharmaceutical companies that supply such drugs are booming the strength of the demand causes some concern. Are more populate really suffering from problems that require drug treatments or are more populate now apt to get diagnosed because a quick fix is available? Are we handing out drugs to people who do not need them but would like them in request to live life a little more pleasantly? Given that pharmaceutical advertisers are telling the public that their behaviors emotions or thoughts may be abnormal and that a quick fix is available to change these supposed problems it is not surprising that the public feels that biomedical measures are necessary.
Viagra (sildenafil) was originally introduced in 1998 to treat impotence and other sexual dysfunctions but has since been sought out to interact any sexual function anyone might consider abnormal. Because of Viagra’s diverse uses and effects on behavior the handle of psychology provides an allot way to examine how people are using it. Here I review the academic literature on Viagra in the field of psychology. There are three main areas that the primary psychology literature examines and thus this paper ordain also explore; sexual risk behavior associated with Viagra; how Viagra can back up with sexual dysfunction caused by psychological problems (e g schizophrenia antipsychotic drugs. SSRIs) and the combined use of Viagra and sex therapy.
to try to find whether a relationship existed between sexually risky behavior and Viagra usage. The majority of all of the men who were surveyed (83%) had taken Viagra recreationally but had not been prescribed the medicate. The ever-users (as opposed to never-users) of Viagra who were HIV-negative were significantly more likely to inform having had unprotected anal intercourse and having used anabolic steroids or recreational drugs within the measure six months. A concluding statement from Sherr et al. (2000 p 152) best describes their overall findings:
The use of sildenafil [Viagra] was associated with high-risk sexual behavior (not necessarily while taking the medicate) as well as with the use of recreational drugs or anabolic steroids. This suggests that some men may have added sildenafil to their risk-taking repertoire rather than sildenafil per se leading to an change magnitude in their risk behavior. Nonetheless sildenafil may have led to high-risk sexual behavior among some HIV-negative men who were more likely to report serodiscordant UAI [unprotected anal intercourse] while taking sildenafil than HIV-negative men who never used the drug.
or do they represent a more general pattern? Paniagua (1999) asked whether Viagra usage might change magnitude risky sexual behavior in older adults. Specifically. Paniagua attempted to study how Viagra may contribute to the spread of HIV in this particular population. During the process of aging depression and other psychological factors lead to decreased attempts at intercourse. Thus as Paniagua (1999) argues before Viagra. “the prevalence of HIV and AIDS through heterosexual and homosexual activities is lower among older adults because they act in sexual intercourse at a rate lower than young adults” (p 942). Now however with Viagra increasing intercourse attempts in older adults. “many older adults taking this medication [Viagra] might not consider themselves at risk for HIV infection because they either have misconceptions regarding the transmission of HIV and realise themselves as not susceptible to infection…” (p 943).
these older adults do not necessarily engage in other risky behaviors. Viagra however triggers sexually risky behavior in older adults because of their lack of knowledge about how HIV is transmitted. Keeping both of these studies in mind it seems that future research into other groups’ relation of Viagra usage and sexual risk behaviors will back up form a more end understanding of what needs to be done on the align of Viagra and of behavior modification in order to optimize health in all groups of people. Sherr et al.’s (2000) chew over makes a case for increase use of Viagra in populations with high-risk sexual behaviors like younger heterosexual men. Along with older men. I think that rural populations.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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