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No girls allowed? Sometimes, testosterone zone makes sense

That’s the conclusion of a study published online this week in the American Journal of Sociology, which suggests that when a woman steps between a man and his network of pals and then forms friendships that are as strong or stronger than his own, the guy is more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction.

That may seem contrary to what most men say they want: a woman who can hang with his friends. But the study, by sociologists Benjamin Cornwell of Cornell University and Edward Laumann of the University of Chicago, discovered that among the youngest men in their nationwide sample, what they describe as “partner between-ness” has “an association with erectile dysfunction that rivals that of prostate trouble,” Cornwell said.

Maybe he feels less manly “We think one possibility is that men [in this situation] feel less manly,” explained Cornwell, an assistant professor of sociology. “This has to do with masculinity and feelings of masculinity."

Cornwell did not refer to fear of a man will take a close friend's romantic relationship with his wife or girlfriend. This was not the point of the study, which included more than 3,000 men aged from 57 to 85 who participated in the massive national life, Health and Social Survey Project aging.

Instead, the study found that men turn to their male friendships as a source of independence, intimacy, trust, self-reliance. When a partner form a closer relationship with one of the men in his network as the man himself, these are eroded and, with them, some of his male identity. That diminished male sense of himself, in turn, can lead to psychogenic (it’s all in your head) erectile dysfunction.

This does not mean that men ought to book airline tickets and reenact scenes from “The Hangover.” But it does seem to reflect the “No Girls Allowed” policy little boys tack up on plywood clubhouses and big boys tack up on, say, Augusta National Golf Club.

Grandpa wants to mentor and impart some wisdom to his relatives; he doesn’t care quite so much about how his buddy the purchasing agent can boost his career, or whether or not he can comment on the glories of the gym receptionist’s breasts to his workout pal without his wife hearing about it.

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