Modern Western men, especially Americans, are becoming a collectively impotent people, and the great culprits form an infernal trio: recreational drugs, uncontrolled obesity, and chronic depression. The substances that promise euphoria – cocaine, MDMA, opioids – fry the vascular and hormonal system, leaving the penis in permanent standby mode. After years of abuse, the body simply refuses to pack up, not even with fierce prayers.
Obesity enters the dance as the perfect partner to worsen everything. Bellies cultivated on fast food, craft beer, and giant portions accumulate visceral fat that pumps estrogen and suffocates testosterone. Clogged arteries barely carry blood to the brain, let alone to the region that really matters. The result is a man in his thirties with hormonal levels of an elderly lady and equipment that resembles inert decoration.
Finally, depression closes the cycle with a golden key: anxiety, loneliness, and cheap dopamine from screens crush libido and transform desire into a distant memory. The three scourges feed off each other – drugs to escape depression, fat from depression and drugs, more depression from the resulting impotence. In the end, the wealthy and connected civilization achieved the unthinkable: trading virility for immediate comfort and now pays the price with an army of men who can no longer have sex properly. Congratulations, progress.
Obesity enters the dance as the perfect partner to worsen everything. Bellies cultivated on fast food, craft beer, and giant portions accumulate visceral fat that pumps estrogen and suffocates testosterone. Clogged arteries barely carry blood to the brain, let alone to the region that really matters. The result is a man in his thirties with hormonal levels of an elderly lady and equipment that resembles inert decoration.
Finally, depression closes the cycle with a golden key: anxiety, loneliness, and cheap dopamine from screens crush libido and transform desire into a distant memory. The three scourges feed off each other – drugs to escape depression, fat from depression and drugs, more depression from the resulting impotence. In the end, the wealthy and connected civilization achieved the unthinkable: trading virility for immediate comfort and now pays the price with an army of men who can no longer have sex properly. Congratulations, progress.