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Hangzhou Baoshantang's website hangs a photo of Ma Xiaonian and Tong Songzhen on the homepage to prove the authority of this sex therapy institution. This shows that Ma Xiaonian's status in the field of sexology in China. However, if you walk into Ma Xiaonian's sexual medicine clinic at Beijing Yuquan Hospital, you will find that his "old nest" and his "status" are not commensurate. There is nowhere near Tong Songzhen's treatment room. Sitting in the consulting room with mottled paint on the wall and only a few square meters of area, Ma Xiaonian with white hair said in a low voice squeezed out of his throat, "My sex medicine department is not up." ^{[ 1]}

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Hangzhou Baoshantang's website hangs a photo of Ma Xiaonian and Tong Songzhen on the homepage to prove the authority of this sex therapy institution. This shows that Ma Xiaonian's status in the field of sexology in China. However, if you walk into Ma Xiaonian's sexual medicine clinic at Beijing Yuquan Hospital, you will find that his "old nest" and his "status" are not commensurate. There is nowhere near Tong Songzhen's treatment room. Sitting in the consulting room with mottled paint on the wall and only a few square meters of area, Ma Xiaonian with white hair said in a low voice squeezed out of his throat, "My sex medicine department is not up." ^{[ 1]}

In 1996, 51-year-old Ma Xiaonian voluntarily applied for transfer from the Scientific Research Institute of the National Family Planning Commission and opened a sex medical clinic at Yuquan Hospital outside the West Fourth Ring Road in Beijing. Nearly 20 years have passed since then. So far, only two public hospitals across the country have sex medicine clinics-in addition to Yuquan Hospital, there is also the infertility and sexuality of the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University hosted by Zhang Bin in Guangzhou. Department of Medicine.

Ma Xiaonian introduced that at the beginning of the establishment of the department, as a special clinic of the hospital, it was supported by the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau and the hospital. However, in 2003, Yuquan Hospital was incorporated into Tsinghua University as an affiliated hospital, and its development focus was adjusted. Sexual medicine was marginalized, and funding was stretched. Today, compared with the overcrowded situation in Beijing's "top three" hospitals, there are only a few patients in the "secondary" Yuquan Hospital, the gates are somewhat deserted, and the sex medicine department is sitting on the cold bench-plus only two of Ma Xiaonian Doctors, about two or three patients come here every day.

After all, Ma Xiaonian holds the title of Vice Chairman of the Chinese Sexual Society and Chairman of the Sexual Medicine Professional Committee. His photo not only appeared on the website of Hangzhou Baoshantang, but also appeared in the introduction of an expert from Beijing Wuzhou Women and Children Hospital. Below the photo are listed his blog posts, starting with a discussion of women's "sexual blessings".

Compared with other doctors who can send a patient on average in a few minutes or ten minutes, Ma Xiaonian's time to see a patient takes at least half an hour. "To ask the sexual history first, to find out the problem, some need universal knowledge, and some need psychological counseling." However, as a male doctor in a regular hospital, Ma Xiaonian is different from other sex therapists. His main treatment is The means is still-prescribe.

Statistics show that the incidence of impotence is as high as 52% for men aged 40 to 70 years, which means that on average every one of every two men has impotence. In 1998, Viagra (viagra), a drug that can treat male sexual dysfunction, was born, and Ma Xiaonian called it "the third milestone of modern sexology and a revolution in sexual therapy."

In the U.S., Viagra issued 15,000 prescriptions a day in the first week after listing, rose to 25,000 a day in the second week, 35,000 a day in the third week, and reached 270,000 a day in the seventh week. The latest record in the history of global medicine. Shares of Pfizer, which makes Viagra and owns its patents, skyrocketed. In the past, the consultation rate for impotence patients in the United States was only 7%, and it quickly rose to 40% after Viagra went public.

In 2000, Viagra entered China. A 50 mg small blue pill, worth up to RMB 99, is not covered by medical insurance. But it is still favored by andrologists.

By the time he retired in 2005, Ma Xiaonian had seen more than 20,000 patients, 83% of whom were male, and more than 90% of the male patients he had seen were prescribed medicine, and most were Viagra. Ma Xiaonian said that even psychogenic (psychological) impotence needs to be treated with Viagra. "Psychological counselling alone may not be useful, but as long as he can succeed in sexual matters once, psychological anxiety will be swept away."

It was difficult to meet Pan Suiming at the World Chinese Sexologist Academic Conference held in Hangzhou. One trick to finding him is to go to corners, trash cans and other places where you can smoke freely-during the meeting, he spends more time hiding and smoking instead of communicating with other participants.

Pan Suiming has been the director of the Institute of Sexual Sociology at Renmin University of China until his retirement. As a sex sociologist who is far away from the field of practice, Pan Suiming maintains the "high cold" at the conference, just as he treats Viagra coldly. He believes that in history, impotence and premature ejaculation were regarded as "illness" because it was not conducive to pregnancy and thus impaired the "sexual reproductive teleology". Today, it is mainly because quack doctors want to make money. Pan Suiming said that impotence and premature ejaculation is actually only a problem of disharmony in sexual life, which can be completely solved by the sexual skills of both parties. But some doctors only "treat" men and don't ask women about them at all. Isn't this ridiculous? Why do you give them money in vain?

Sexual treatment

However, in reality, it is not uncommon for people to send money for sexual health.

Chinese Canadian Chen Jian works as a sexual health consultant at a medical institution in Shanghai called Zhenjing International Regenerative Medicine Center. The agency is located in Xingguo Hotel, one of the most stylish hotels in Shanghai. Chen Jian said that her job is to provide customized sexual health treatment programs for high-end middle-aged people. In fact, the core of this program is the use of sex hormones.

In Chen Jian's case, there was a male corporate boss in his 40s who was not ill, but often felt tired, lacking energy, low libido, and his wife was dissatisfied with their sexual life. He came here famously, and did a detailed physical examination including hormone levels in the body. The test results found that his testosterone (androgen) level was very low, although he had not yet reached the "disease" standard, he had approached the lower limit of normal values. Therefore, Chen Jian, who did not have the prescription right, asked the clinician to prescribe a comprehensive plan for the CEO, including eating according to the Mediterranean diet and strengthening exercise. In fact, no matter how you adjust your diet, this treatment ultimately depends on testosterone supplementation.

Ma Xiaonian said that in the United States, men and women after menopause are more commonly receiving supplements for sex hormones. Therefore, sex hormone therapy is a very large market, but currently there are not many in China. According to Chen Jian, "Zhenjing Medical" charges very expensive for such treatments, ranging from 50,000 yuan to one million yuan. However, she also acknowledged that "use of sex hormones requires great care, as blind hormone supplementation can cause prostate cancer, breast cancer, and ovarian cancer."

Which department does sexual therapy belong to? If you have all kinds of sexual troubles, if you walk into a public hospital, I'm afraid that it will be blocked at the triage table-Ma Xiaonian's Beijing Yuquan Hospital is almost the only exception-in general hospitals, urology, Departments and even dermatologists are related to sexual issues, but there are no specialized clinics and experts for "sex".

So, who is there to solve sexual troubles? Seeing the hidden needs of people, people with different educational backgrounds and professional backgrounds have joined the sex therapy industry in different forms. They even "customize" various titles for themselves according to their own situation: sexual counseling experts, anti-aging experts, sex coaches, adult observers, sexual rehabilitation experts, clinical hypnotists, and so on. ^[1]