![]() In the United States over the last century, non–normative erections have been hegemonically defined as medical yet behaviorally based conditions, then as psychological problems, and now as an entirely biomedical condition. While less–than–ideal erections are currently understood within the medical framework of erectile dysfunction, an ostensibly objective pathology treatable through medical means, this way of understanding non–normative erections is culturally and historically contingent. However, the nature of those standards, as well as understandings about, embodiments of, and even the physical factors underlying erections and their lack, are not. Penile erections, and their occasional failure to meet ideal standards, may seem timeless. Imagining Impotence in America: From Men’s Deeds to Men’s Minds to Viagraĭepartment of Anthropology, University of Michigan ![]()
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