English men not interested in sex?
Telegraph (newspaper, UK) reports that increasing numbers of middle-aged men are going off sex, according to relationship experts. They report it is an universal trend, but I suspect it may only be a British trend:
Counselling and sex therapy charity Relate says it has seen a 40 per cent increase in men who simply cannot be bothered to make love to their wives and partners.
The findings are a world away from just ten years ago, when hardly any men contacted them with a loss of libido. The main sufferers who call its helpline with the problem are generally aged between 30 and 50 and are married.
Peter Bell, Relate’s head of practice, said: “Men used to come to us with impotence – now known as erectile insufficiency – but Viagra has sorted some of that problem. What we have is a lot of men who say, as women did in the 1950s: ‘I can have sex but I do not want to. It’s not rewarding’.
An English professor thinks he has the explanation:
Professor Michael King, of the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London, has completed a study into mental illness across six countries which found that the rate of major depression and panic syndrome was highest among men in the UK.
I am not able to question his conclusion. But I do feel sorry for all those beautiful, attractive, suffering English ladies out there. And I feel confident that there must be men, somewhere within the common labor market of the EU, who may be convinced to move to the UK to help them out.
After all, there must be lots of fun to be had in the once Great Britain these days. And if the natives are not willing to do it, somebody has to…
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May 9th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I am researching this very subject, as a foreigner in the UK I have noticed a drastic difference in the attitudes of men here when it comes to sex and relationships. (The English ones anyhow) Most of them do not initiate any kind of interaction, and seem completely uninterested in women. If I go out to a nightclub with my girlfriends, its always other nationalities that make moves. I have as an experiment made the moves myself, but they seem to just back off. While other nationalities are very eager, English guys are simply not interested. (With a few exceptions.) Since I am very used to a lot of male attention, when I first moved here I didnt know what to think of this. Are English men just extremely shy? Secretly all homosexual? Is there something wrong with me? Do they prefer to only date English women? (Though there is no proof that they act any different with them) Are they just not interested in/motivated by sex? Or is there just some drastic cultural difference in their courting habits that I failed to have noticed? Whatever it is, there is definitely something fishy with the majority of English guys when it comes to sex and dating.