Bikers Beware
March, 1999
Four years ago, Pedram Salimpour, a sex researcher at Boston University School of Medicine, observed that many of his patients with sexual dysfunction—young, healthy men with no apparent physical or psychological traumas—had something else in common: Each had either slammed his penis against the seat or crossbar of a bike or had completed a long ride. Studies of the perineum, the area between the anus and the scrotum, showed that most of these impotent cyclists had a blocked or damaged cavernosa...
