Those who smoke ten cigarettes a day, better watch out! Using a 'cancer stick' as often as ten times a day can put a dampener on your performance in bed, a new US study said.
At a press conference organised by the Aakash Institute of Fertility and Research to announce the conduct of the third International conference on Sexology on February 16 and 17, an expert said regular smokers would suffer from sexual abnormalities like erectile dysfunction.
The study conducted in US two years ago revealed that if a person smokes about ten gaspers a day, over the years he has endangered his sexual life. He would suffer from erectile dysfunction as the nicotine content in the coffin nail would affect the spongy tissues in the organ leading to its shrinking.
This would affect the sexual life of a person, Dr Adaikan, an expert from Singapore said.
He said even consumption of alcohol might affect sexual life leading to erectile dysfunction.
Quoting statistics, Dr T Kamaraj of AIFR said of the 120 crore Indian population, 20 crore men were suffering from impotency and sexual inadequacy and other sexual dysfunctions.
Observing that the root cause for many of the relationship problem and abnormal behaviour was sexual dissatisfaction, Dr Kamaraj said sex-relaed problems were more prevalent among the IT and BPO sector employees due to intrusion of western culture, changing lifestyles, hurried