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Reuters Pollution makes Chinese men impotent

Date: 30-Oct-00
Country: CHINA

Some 20-30 percent of all adult men in a total population of 1.3 billion suffer from sexual problems, including impotence and sterility, the newspaper said without giving the source of its statistics.

Cases of sexual dysfunction were growing at a rate of 15 percent each year, the newspaper said, blaming stress at work and within the family as well as environmental pollution.

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