UK’s Erectile dysfunction capital unsheathed as males search for assist each 12 secs
Erectile dysfunction is an embarrassing ailment which impacts millions of men up and down Britain. New research has found the areas most impacted by the issue
Millions of men suffer from some degree of erectile dysfunction across the globe (Stock)
The erectile dysfunction capital of the UK has been revealed in new, err, hard data. Plymouth is officially the area most impacted by the embarrassing condition.
The findings were revealed in a Dr SNA Clinic study which examined Google search data for 12 terms related to the issue, including “erectile dysfunction”, “sildenafil” and “tadalafil”, across 97 UK county and council areas. The numbers were adjusted for each location’s adult male population allowing for experts to compare searches per 1,000 men.
The study found in Plymouth there were 1,640 searches for erectile dysfunction help every month. For every 1,000 men in Plymouth there was an equivalent of 15.3 searches in the seaside city for ED help, the highest rate anywhere in the study.
Plymouth is the erectile dysfunction capital of the UK (Stock)
Greater London ranked second with 14.6 searches per 1,000 men. Shetland finished in the third place position with an average of 14.3 per 1,000 men.
Top 10 areas of the UK with the highest erectile dysfunction searches per 1,000:
- Plymouth – 15.3 (1,640 searches a month)
- Greater London – 14.6 (51,040 a month)
- Shetland – 14.3 (130 a month)
- Orkney – 13.7 (120 a month)
- Glasgow – 13.5 (3,530 a month)
- Devon – 13.2 (4,430 a month)
- Dorset – 12.4 (1,930 a month)
- Bristol – 12.3 (2,470 a month)
- Buckinghamshire – 12.2 (2,650 a month)
- East Sussex – 12.2 (2,630 a month)
The data highlighted the South West of England was a surprising hotspot for erectile dysfunction. Across the entire country, as a whole, blokes make more than 222,000 erectile dysfunction related searches every month.
Many men avoid raising the issue of erectile dysfunction due to embarrassment (Stock)
The searches average to around one every 12 seconds as more than 2.6 million searches are made in a single year alone, just in the UK. Erectile dysfunction is understood to affect around half of men over the age of 40 to a degree.
While the condition affects millions of people many men avoid raising the issue due to embarrassment. Dr Syed Nadeem Abbas, intimate health expert at Dr SNA Clinic has pulled the cover back on erectile dysfunction.
The experts in intimacy health stated: “Erectile dysfunction is one of the most common conditions I see, and one of the least talked about. These figures show huge numbers of men are quietly looking for answers online every month.”
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