Mick Jagger's ex raising awareness about erectile dysfunction
June 01, 2006

When couples can't get no satisfaction, Jerry Hall thinks talking about sex, or the lack thereof, can help.

"I think conversation is a fantastic aphrodisiac," said Hall, who despite looking picture perfect couldn't stop fussing with her almost waist-length blond hair during an interview.

"But if you're having problems over a long period of time ... it's probably a physical problem."

The former model and ex-wife of Mick Jagger was in the city Wednesday as the poster girl for an erectile dysfunction campaign by Bayer HealthCare, makers of an impotence treatment.

But she wasn't talking about her own sexual past with famous partners.

"I'm not really talking about my personal experience because I think erectile difficulties should be kept between the man, the woman and the doctor," she said.

"I'm certainly of the age group - if I'm dating men that are age appropriate - that that sort of thing, you know, happens but I wouldn't be bothered by that at all," the 49-year-old said, adding that while she may occasionally date younger men, she prefers the experience age brings.

"Yes. Sometimes there are difficulties, but there's a pill for that. Younger men make you listen to Coldplay and there's no cure for that," Hall said as she sat on the edge of an oversized bed in a downtown hotel room.

"I love rock and roll. I still like the Stones. They are the best."

While she may joke about the pros and cons of dating older men, she is serious when it comes to the importance of discretion.

"Women have to be sensitive and find a way to have this conversation with their partners."

But Dr. Jack Barkin, chief of urology at Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto, said often women don't really know what their partners are going through.

"Yes it's a partnership issue but sometimes even the men are reluctant to tell their partners that they are having a problem - they would rather hide it," he said.

Many women think that because their partners aren't having sex with them anymore they must be having an affair, he said, which puts the marriage under further strain.

Since pharmaceutical companies took on erectile dysfunction in the late '90s, Barkin, director of the Male Health Centres in Toronto, said wives, husbands and doctors are now more willing to ask questions and want answers.

He recounted a recent visit from an 86-year-old man, who hadn't had sex in 15 years. He had a new girlfriend, 77, who wanted to have sex. She told him to go see the doctor.

"The interest in sex after the age of 80 has increased very significantly in the past 10 years," he said. "There are a lot of men and women out there who are very anxious to have sex - even in their 70s, 80s and older."

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