Is there a correlation between white, middle-class, middle-aged men with high-end two-channel audio systems and erectile dysfunction/impotency?
Furthermore, are these same men fundamentally more prone to impotency and high-end audio equipment because of lifetimes of physical inactivity?
Lastly, how does this physio-sociological phenomenon relate to the obsession of "audiophiles" with nineteenth century concepts of illness, weakness and "heightened sensitivity" (i.e. the general assumption in the high-end audio subculture that the overly "refined" aural sensibilities of the "true audiophile" requires a commensurately complex, and expensive, music listening system to satisfy these perceived sensitivities) as barometers of their assumed innate genetic superiority over individuals not possessing said sensitivities, and high-end audio equipment? Is high-end audio equipment therefore the manifestation of white, Western European middle-class aristocratic pretension? A sublimated social aspiration to "refinement and culture" expressed by the acquisition of heavy electrical appliances?
As an adjunct talking point it might be fruitful to explore whether the impotency/audiophile/social aspirant phenomenon is not an underlying subconscious recognition of impending death by this group of individuals who are largely monied, physically compromised, and unburdened by contemplative intellects. I.e. the "fetish factor."
Is there a correlation between white, middle-class, middle-aged men with high-end two-channel audio systems and erectile dysfunction/impotency?
Furthermore, are these same men fundamentally more prone to impotency and high-end audio equipment because of lifetimes of physical inactivity?
Lastly, how does this physio-sociological phenomenon relate to the obsession of "audiophiles" with nineteenth century concepts of illness, weakness and "heightened sensitivity" (i.e. the general assumption in the high-end audio subculture that the overly "refined" aural sensibilities of the "true audiophile" requires a commensurately complex, and expensive, music listening system to satisfy these perceived sensitivities) as barometers of their assumed innate genetic superiority over individuals not possessing said sensitivities, and high-end audio equipment? Is high-end audio equipment therefore the manifestation of white, Western European middle-class aristocratic pretension? A sublimated social aspiration to "refinement and culture" expressed by the acquisition of heavy electrical appliances?
As an adjunct talking point it might be fruitful to explore whether the impotency/audiophile/social aspirant phenomenon is not an underlying subconscious recognition of impending death by this group of individuals who are largely monied, physically compromised, and unburdened by contemplative intellects. I.e. the "fetish factor."