THE MYTHS – INTRODUCTION
Since the male-menopause has become a recognizable and diagnosable crisis condition many inaccurate theories and judgements have been circulated under the guise of being fact, each sounding like professional judgement from the pages of a medical textbook. This may not matter with simple ailments where a little embroidery improves the seriousness of tone and the quality of sympathy, but with the male-menopause all the myths do is increase misunderstandings and make less sense of what is potentially a serious matter.
Most popular myths centre on a man’s sex life — or, more precisely, the apparent lack of it.
This may sound chauvinistic but many of the myths are probably put about by women. Not, one suspects, however, because of feminist need to establish equality but because to many women the term male-menopause conjures up visions of impotence and leads them to hope and expect men to have a similar sort of climacteric to theirs. After all if a woman has one why not a man too?
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