MALE SEXUAL MYTHS: FANTASIES ABOUT PENIS - 'SPRANG OUT AT HER LIKE AN ANGRY LION FROM ITS CAGE'

The sober, shy Sunil sowed his wild oats during his sojourn at the Harvard Business School in the USAthe ultimate Mecca for the sons of affluent Indians. His innate shyness attracted a lot of female curiosity and attention and many women wanted to 'bed' this virgin lad from India. Sunil graduated into a master of sex, but his happiness was short-lived. He suddenly lost his manhood.

When he was in Bombay, during his holidays, he came to see me about his impotence. 'My sex life in America was good,' said Sunil, 'except that until my partner fondled me, I could not get an erection for the first three or four times I had sex. 1 was fine afterwards.' After a brief pause, he continued hesitatingly, 'My partner gave me Harold Robbins' best-selling novel The Betsy. I read the book and became impotent.' 'Why do you think the book made you impotent?' I asked.

Sunil blurted out, 'Why can't my organ spring out like an angry lion?' I impressed on Sunil that The Betsy was fiction and not reality. The Fantasyland sexual encounters described there did not exist in reality. Sunil was so taken in by this fiction that he believed it to be the gospel truth! He worried, became anxious and impotent, when his penis did not 'spring out from his trousers, like an angry lion'. The case vividly illustrates the impact of Fantasyland sexual culture on a young impressionable mind.

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Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction