Alcohol can prevent erectile dysfunction

What would happen if all the commercials they show during NFL games got mixed together? My current vision is of macro-brewed American light lager and pickup trucks helping old guys get it up.

Well, that may be partly true. A new study out of Australia suggests that moderate drinking may reduce the incidence of ED.

NewScientist: Alcohol stops men being a flop in bed

There is good evidence that excessive drinking can hinder sexual performance after a night out – a phenomenon sometimes called “brewer’s droop”. [We call it "whisky dick" - Ed.] The effect has been noted for many years: “[Drink] provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance,” Shakespeare reminds us in Macbeth.

But over longer periods, moderate drinking doesn’t seem to be linked to erectile dysfunction, says Kew-Kim Chew, an epidemiologist at the University of West Australia in Nedlands, whose team conducted an anonymous postal survey of 1770 West Australian men.

After accounting for differences due to age, smoking and heart disease – all risk factors for ED – Chew and colleagues found that drinkers experienced rates of impotence 25% to 30% below those of teetotallers.

I wonder if this plays into the psychosis of Neo-Prohibitionists?

(via Boing Boing)

Update: Of course, this article is going to be the target of comment spammers for time immemorial.