Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

We Used To Just Say "It's Broken" 😬 #MedicalHistory #ED #MensHealth #Shorts

23 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Short YouTube excerpt discussing how terminology and clinical understanding of male sexual problems have evolved: clinicians moved from the catch-all term “impotence” to the more precise, nonjudgmental framework of “erectile dysfunction,” which distinguishes physiological causes from desire or psychological problems and guides targeted evaluation and interventions.

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And then very precisely now, because you mentioned ED dysfunction, we are using a more euphemistic term than where we were back in when I trained in the 70s and 80s, where we use this term, impotence. Back then, we just threw everything together. So this thing's not working. Pointing between the legs and just say, that's the problem. And here we need to understand whether it's an problem. Is it a problem? Is it a desire problem? All of these things are on the spectrum of men's health. And I think we're defining the condition more. If it really is a trouble with getting in a now we go down a certain path of what we can do to understand the causes there and what interventions make sense. And we and we very forthrightly and non judgmentally, go forward with what our options are and try to get that man back on track.