Edit: After posting, I checked out two of the original studies cited in the article, and I think the author of the Canadian Affairs article was off-base with the things I’ve since struck out. I don’t believe data exists to say that physical vs psychological factors are greater contributors to ED - they both seem relevant.
A recent study of thousands of American men under 40 found nearly 15 per cent struggled with erectile dysfunction. Most cases were strongly linked to psychological, rather than physical, causes.
Other studies have suggested psychological or emotional factors may explain as many as 85 per cent of ED cases.
A 2018 review of 49 international studies found that men with depression were 39 per cent more likely to experience erectile dysfunction than men without depression.
And yet, mental health is rarely assessed in ED clinical trials or included in treatment plans. A 2025 Canadian evaluation of more than 450 ED clinical trials found that fewer than eight per cent mentioned mental health issues.
No idea.
I think our once unfathomable pollution is having unforseen effects in unforseen ways.
Everyone thought sanity would prevail. That the world would slam on the brakes before any of this got this bad. Instead our leaders accelerated. Daring the rapidly approaching cliff to allow us to fling ourselves into oblivion.
Mostly unrelated. But how long do you think it’ll take our inevitable replacement as apex predator to rise to our current level? Dolphins or corvids or whatever they turn out to be. Will they repeat our mistakes? Could we build anything that would last long enough to warn them?
depends on how bad the climate and pollution get.
perhaps the successor will be eusocial and recognize the impacts and folly. but I don’t know how a successor would manage to have an industrial revolution with all the easy oil and coal stripped out. given geological time periods it’ll be fine, but I wonder how many would be species will suffer for ages in the interim.
Great apes are herbivores. Humans are built to hunt tubers. That’s why our mouths are full of amalayse and not teeth that can rend hide.
Cool. But our replacements.
Do you think some other apes will survive and eventually replace us?
No, we will exterminate them all before we go kicking and sobbing.