According to the American Anorexia Bulimia Association, 10% of suffers of eating disorders are male. Because eating disorders are often (and carelessly) viewed as a female disorder, men are less likely to reach out for help. This fear and shame empowers the disease process and more often than not, spirals the male's food addiction/compulsion even faster. Indiscriminately, eating disorders are as devastating to males both emotionally and physically as they are for their female counterparts. Along with the myriad of negative physical consequences that the eating disordered individual faces, males will also be faced with a decreased sexual drive and/or impotence. Within the therapeutic community (and here at Turning Point) there are therapists who are informed and able to address the male eating disordered client and provide him with the tools and information necessary to achieve and maintain recovery.