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Ageing can be difficult for men because of physiological and sexual changes.

Less-frequent erections can be associated with feeling a loss of masculinity.

Ageing is an opportunity for men to change their unhelpful and strict masculinity scripts.

Ageing is inevitable, but having a thriving sex life through the lifespan is possible.

Ageing can be a difficult process. It is well known that ageing is particularly difficult for women because female youth tends to be over-emphasised as one of the main factors of desirability. Now we have fantastic celebrities such as Kate Winslet and Dame Helen Mirren who embrace ageing and are not afraid to show their wrinkles.

The struggle of men ageing is discussed less because it isn’t associated with the same beauty standard and sexual desirability experienced by women. However, many men do find ageing difficult, for different reasons.

In our Western society, where there are strict gender norms, men feel the pressure to conform to narrow masculinity scripts. One of them is to be strong and powerful, and another one of them is to always be sexually potent.

Ageing and its associated loss are inevitable. Indeed, “man-opause” (andropause) is real, even though it is not felt as intensely as menopause for women. The........

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