Viagra has now become a standard Italian health care product, more or less like aspirin. According to the Italian Society of Andrology, 20 million pills are sold each year, while erectile dysfunction affects nearly 40 percent of those over 50. But while it has solved a potential problem in couples' intimate lives, this boom is also increasing the phenomenon of "Viagra jealousy."Viagra jealousy”) tested by some women regarding the drug that has changed men's sexual lives.
“Viagra jealousy” can manifest itself in different ways:
- Fear that the partner will depend on the drug for sexual pleasure.
- I suspect that the partner is seeking more intense or different sexual experiences thanks to the drug.
- Anxiety about one's sexual performance, compared to the effect of the drug.
- The partner without the drug may feel less attractive or less able to satisfy the other.
- This can undermine the self-confidence and generate performance anxiety.
In practice, jealousy stems more from the perception of the drug as "external help" than from the actual dynamics of infidelity. Psychologists and sexologists sometimes treat it as a mix of relationship anxiety and insecurity, rather than a physical problem related to Viagra itself.
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