Erectile Dysfunction Meds and Sexual Behavior is it risky?
Can Cialis, Levitra or Viagra affect our behavior?
Thinking Viagra is going to turn you into a wild sex machine? Or do you think Cialis is going to make you so horny you will risk having unprotected sex? Maybe Levitra will last so long that you want to go out and do it with whomever and wherever? It turns out, no.
Dr. Robert Cook, an associate professor at the University of Florida, is the lead researcher looking into this very question. Does ED (erectile dysfunction) medications make us take risks? It turns out if these drugs are prescribed and used responsibly the findings show that they do not affect our behaviors. These studies certainly give health care providers some assurances toward prescribing them.
What made this study unique is that unlike previous studies, it did not focus on men with substance abuse problems, men who obtained the ED medications without a prescription, or men who had sex with other men.
Cook said “In this study we looked at erectile dysfunction drugs and sexual behavior in the context of routine health cat for a group of men who are more representative of the general population.”
Data from over 2780 men with an average age of 52 that were involved in a study about aging veterans was used. Roughly half were HIV-positive. With the research parameters being that risky sexual behavior was defined as men having unprotected sex with HIV positive men, negative if you are positive, or the reverse, or unknown.
The study finding showed that about 9 to 10% of the men in two groups, those who did and those who did not take the drugs reported sexual behavior as risky. Over 25% of these men had been taking ED drugs over a 1 year period.
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