Erectile Dysfunction

Things between me and my gf were so good. Lately I’ve been losing my erection during sex. I’m usually able to get one before intercourse at least. Well tonight for the first time I couldn’t even get up at all. Is this most likely mental or physical? I’d rather not see a doctor but will if I feel I have to. This is really upsetting for me.

Okay, having troubles with your erection is an upsetting thing.  No matter how young you are or how old you are, you just expect your penis to perform whenever you need it to, right?

But things don’t always work out like that.

You need to ask yourself a few questions:

• How’s my health? - If you’re having health problems right now and you’re on any medications, that can cause troubles with your erections.  Check with your doctor about changing your prescriptions to something a little friendlier to your sex life.  If you’re not on any prescriptions, and you’ve been feeling under the weather, maybe it’s time to schedule an appointment for a checkup.
• How’s my stress? - If you’re stressed out, your risk of erection troubles goes up.  Think about it, you’re worried and your body isn’t quite up to the task of sex.  Try to find ways to relax and you can generally see improvement pretty quickly.
• How’s my fatigue? - If you’ve been missing out on sleep, it’s time to catch up to help your penis get back in the game.
• How’s my relationship? - You say that you and your girlfriend are doing okay, so that’s probably not an issue.  But if you have faced rough times in the past, that can affect your erections.
• How old am I? - Men who are older have a higher risk of erectile dysfunction, so if you’re over 50, you might need to go to your doctor for some help.

So, how did you do on these questions?  Find any answers?  Here’s the best advice - don’t stress out about it. The more tense you become about getting hard, the harder it will be.  Relax, enjoy yourself, and you’ll soon find erection troubles to be a thing of the past.

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Erectile Dysfunction

While it’s no surprise that men are interested in sex, maybe it’s not as testosterone driven as many women might think. Perhaps wanting to get it on isn’t just an issue of carnal lust, but more an issue of preserving long term virility - at least that’s what the studies are showing.

Viagra is well on its way becoming the best selling drug in the world, providing relief for men with erectile dysfunction. A man’s erection (or lack thereof) has become a part of everyday conversation as men seek out ways to prolong their sexual lives decade after decade.

Researchers in Finland took 989 men from 55 to 75 years of age and tested to see what helped them maintain their erection consistency. What they found is that erectile dysfunction may not be just a case of age, but rather frequency of sex. That’s right, how often you have sex seems to relate to how well a man can continue to have strong erections.

To test this theory, the researchers took the men and divided them into groups based on their sexual frequency. Those men who didn’t have sex as regularly reported have twice the number of instance of erectile dysfunction than those who had sex more often. More specifically, men who had sex less more once per week had fewer erection troubles, while those who had sex over four times each week had four times less troubles.

As a result, a logical conclusion is that having sex more often may actually help those with erectile dysfunction. The biggest obstacle, of course, is that when you have troubles with dysfunction, you might not want to have sex as often.

With the news that having sexual relations more often may be able to reverse erectile dysfunction, even without the aid of drugs, it seems like it might be worth the try, however.

What should also be kept in mind is that the research didn’t measure the effectiveness of natural erections, like those in the morning hours, and only used actual intercourse activities in the study.

Masturbation was also not included in this study, but since masturbation has been definitively linked with more sexual desire, perhaps this activity should have also been included.

It seems masturbation is still a common practice, after all, with nearly 4 in 10 of all men 45 to 59 masturbating at least once per week. And since desire in a monogamous relationship tends to wane in long term relationships, masturbation might be able to help to fill in the gaps and heighten one’s desire for more lovemaking or at least preserve one’s erections.

In the end, men are not doomed to lives of limp desire as they age, even though the Viagra ads might have them think otherwise. Instead, it seems that men just need to take matters into their own hands…and into bed more often.

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