Performance Anxiety

The Washington Post reports that young male college students are increasingly having performance issues. Not in classwork, but in more intimate settings. The story is really anecdotal since there is little if any experimental data to back up the assertion that this is becoming more common. All the usual suspects are named as possible causes; drinking, drugs, smoking, stress and lack of exercise.

I wonder if it's really just that people are more willing to talk about it rather than a real increase. It seems to me things are really no different than when I went to college. In fact there's likely a higher percentage of health conscious people today than there were back when I went to school.

Or maybe we were just more studly back then.