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Every modern male has, lying at the bottom of his psyche, a large, primitive being covered with hair down to his feet. Making contact with this Wild Man is the step the Eighties male or the Nineties male has yet to take. That bucketing-out process has yet to begin in our contemporary culture.
—Robert Bly (b. 1926)
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These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen, and to run before his chariots; and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. He will take one-tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and his courtiers. He will take your male and female slaves, and the best of your cattle and donkeys, and put them to his work. He will take one-tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves. And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves...
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Samuel 8:11-18.
The Myths Surrounding Male Menopause ... In the past, the common misconception was that the male libido and erection problems were all in their head, meaning that it was mainly stress that kept a man from 'performing up to par.' This belief seemed to be backed up by the fact that many men, suffering erectile dysfunction, would wake in the mornings to find themselves with a full and firm erection. The cure for erectile dysfunction simply became, "Reduce stress and relax more." Housewives were encouraged to pamper their husbands and do as much as possible to reduce his stress levels and help him unwind...
Male Menopause Info ...
Body Changes In Male Menopause ... The loss of sexual drive is one of the first changes most people notice with aging. This decreased libido and failure to awaken with erections is the foreboding of the impotence experienced by hypogonadal men...