Erectile Dsyfunction Affects All Ages
A few months ago I was at a party and, as it reached the early hours of the morning and just I and a few other hard-drinking males remained, I somehow got onto the subject of impotence.
An eerie silence fell over the room and as I related some of my personal experiences with this affliction I half-expected everyone to start laughing. Instead something else happened - whether moved by my own account or by the copious ammounts of alcohol consumed, one by one, each of the men in the room cautiously admitted that they’d also had similar troubles at some point in their lives.
While each of them was careful to make it clear that everything was in working order now, I felt almost like a priest as they confessed their imperfect virility for the very first time.
Impotence and erectile dsyfunction are somewhat taboo topics in the modern world. In a world where sex is the predominant theme of most commerce, entertainment and bar room banter, to admit that you might not be always up to the job is tantamount to doubting your right to exist.
Replacing a fuse and carrying logs is all well and good but the inability to get an erection puts your manhood in serious question. Yet with around 30 million men reporting dsyfunctional erections (and how many more staying quiet?), it’s something that most men face at one time or another.
Impotence vs. ED
To be clear, impotence refers to the inability to get any kind of erection, even during sleep. There can be solid medical reasons for this, including the side-effects of medications (such as anti-depressants, in particular) and in this case it’s definitely worth getting a professional opinion.
Erectile dsyfunction, on the other hand, refers to the inability to get a full erection on demand or losing the erection halfway through sexual intercourse. Talk about frustrating.
A few years ago a girlfriend finally convinced me to give up traveling for a while and move in with her. It seemed like a dream rest cure until after a few days I found that man’s best friend was letting me down and the bed became a torture chamber.
I started going for morning runs to get the blood flowing, adopting a vegetarian diet to make sure my veins weren’t being blocked up by saturated fats and even sneaking a look at the lingerie advertisements in my girlfriend’s fashion magazines in the morning to get me in the mood.
Nothing helped.
In desperation, I spent hours on the Internet researching ancient herbs that purported to help with problems of virility and headed down to the health food shop to see what was on offer. Although pretty poor at the time, I spent most of what meager income I had on packets of Korean ginseng, packets of Ginko Biloba and an African herb called Yohimbe - the latter prompted some promising tingles but caused such palpitations of the heart that I almost called an ambulance.
So much for alternative health, at least on this occasion.
I eventually found a cure but I’m going to make you wait until the end of the article to find out what it was.
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In any case, according to the likes of Pfizer with their best-selling drug, Viagra, impotence and erectile dsyfunction should be a thing of the past. Having isolated the active components that stimulate blood flow to the penis, all our troubles should be over. And Viagra does, in fact, work.
Head to any red light zone in South East Asia and outside the bars and discos where old Americans and Europeans go to pick up girls half their age or less, you’ll see vendors touting Viagra pills alongside cigarettes and chewing gum.
Independent drug manufacturers weren’t slow to realise the potential and for a while Asian-produced copies of Viagra were the No. 1 export item for the average traveler with space in his backpack.
So why is there still any problem? If popping a pill is all it takes we should all be living in a world of great sex and guaranteed erections, right?
Well, aside from the risk of having a heart seizure if you’re prone to any cardiovascular issues, Viagra is a perfect example of the modern world’s urge to treat the symptom and not the cause.
According to Darwin and any scientist who believes that life on this planet has been going on for rather a long time, sex has long been an essential component of evolution. Our bodies are designed to have sex, reproduce and have a good time along the way.
Impotence is rarely a problem amongst animals so why should it be any different with human beings?
Just for fun, yesterday I walked into town to see how often I’d get exposed to sexual imagery in the course of a half an hour walk. I’d barely stepped outside the apartment where I was staying before I saw a billboard where the advertisers had come up with the ingenious strategy of placing a beer bottle next to a rather prominant cleavage. The word “association” becomes redundant.
Then I passed a newspaper stand where there were no less than 7 men’s magazines for sale, each with a super model in a bikini on the cover. They were outnumbered only by the magazines focusing on cars and motorbikes and all but one of them again had a girl in a bikini sprawled on top of the hood.
Just as I was about to conclude that drinking and driving really is all it takes to get laid, a car passed playing Snoop Dogg’s rap about turning a girl into his sex slave. Damn, you need to be a gangsta rapper, too.
In any case, you don’t need me to let you know that sex is a more likely candidate to make the world go round than love but it is striking how little we really understand it.
If we were to go by the lyrics of the songs in the charts and the passionate scenes that we see in Hollywood flicks, sex would seem something like a performance or a contest between two highly-skilled opponents.
Devastating looks are a prerequisite to good sex, it would seem, and the whole deal is to give maximum performance, conquer your opponent and generally score lots of points in the arena of the bedroom.
Small wonder that so many people find real sex to be so utterly bewildering, challenging and utterly out of their depths. But instead of rushing to pop a pill, you could pause to go a little deeper into the mysteries of physical intimacy and burst some of the sex myths that are so abundant in our society.
These myths are hardly ever challenged as, whilst we pride ourselves in living in a free, open-minded country, most people are far too embarrassed to ever talk about it.