Once impotence was thought to be a psychological problem, the turf of sex therapists and shrinks.
Treatment is based on an assumption of pathology.
Instead, most urologists give a general physical exam, take a sexual history, then offer the patient drugs. Sure, these medications work, technically speaking, just as a doctor can prescribe a sedative to make an insomniac sleep. I worry the line is getting blurred. But these truths are of little interest to most urologists. This penis is impervious to Freudian insights, couples counseling and feminist criticism.