Impotency hits demand for Gulf-based Keralite grooms

Once considered a prize catch for women back home in Kerala, non-resident Indian (NRI) grooms from the Middle East are now unable to raise the same kind of excitement back home.

A new study claims a 70 per cent increase in the number of infertility and impotency cases among single males from Kerala based in the Middle East.

The study, conducted by the National Rural Health Mission in Kerala, analysed statistics based on the number of patients visiting infertility clinics during the last ten years.

The study found that 80 per cent of the patients were Keralite men living in the Gulf.

The study pointed out that among the main factors leading to such large increase in numbers are climate change, diabetes, alcoholism, stress and an increase in financial instability.

Another impact is that there has been an increase in the number of infertility clinics in Kerala, many of them overcrowded with NRI patients. The study also notes a rise in demand for sperm banks.

Doctors have been long warned that diabetes and alcoholism would result in erectile dysfunction. Statistics show that between 35 and 50 per cent of diabetics get erectile dysfunction.

According to Rajendran, an NRI working in Dubai what makes a Malayalee worker even more miserable is pressure to get their wives pregnant within a month of getting married.

“Many married men live as bachelors in the Gulf. They usually get married and come back to the Gulf within a week or two. Then it is an annual journey back to their wives in an effort to produce babies.

“In fact, the pressure increases after the third or fourth year after the marriage. I have known several men who have gone on holidays twice in one year, tried their best to help their wives conceive, but unsuccessful,” he said.

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