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InchDeep on Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:37:51 PM
www.lifeinitaly.com. Only in Italy.
(ANSA) - Roma, May 14 - Italian men on temporary job
contracts may have to worry about impotence as well as paying
the bills, a leading urologist said on Wednesday.
Speaking ahead of a national urology conference,
Florence Urology Clinic Director Marco Carini said not having
a permanent work contract put young men at risk of either
erectile disfunction or premature ejaculation.
''For young people, job insecurity, economic
difficulties and the impossibility of starting a family are
sources of anxiety and stress and can have serious
repercussions on their sex lives,'' Carini said.
''If there is no stable partner, added to the stress is
the performance anxiety that can flare up during occasional
relations,'' he added.
According to Carini, premature ejaculation afflicts
between 25 and 30% of young men, while erectile disfunction
is a problem for 35% of men under 35 and 47% of those over
36.
Around a million Italian men work as so-called 'precari'
- people with temporary contracts or other forms of contract
that give them little or no job protection or social security
cover - according to figures from national statistics bureau
Istat.
Seven out of ten people with temporary contracts live
with their parents, Istat said.