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Date Machine: Erectile Dysfunction

Oct 28th, 2008

 

I started writing on this subject a few weeks ago, but hadn't had occasion to post it, until Amboabe recently broached the subject.

Back when I was a teenager, right through into my early twenties, erections were very easy to come by. All you had to do was smile at a boy the right way and watch the result.

I remember the days when we would slow dance at the local disco (yeah, I know you are too young to remember such things. Bite me) One particular incidence sticks in my mind

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Contrary to form, I would think that the limp would avoid nubile young girls because their dysfunction would be forever solidified. With older gals they can appease themselves, "Ah ha! I just wasn't turned on enough." And age-appropriate fillies might even bake them cookies after the big flop. "Where the rot sets in" is the funniest and most brutal description alluding to a stress-induced death drive that is the salt that shrivels the slug.
dvaleriey commented on Oct 28 08 at 7:17 pm
i dunno.. i actually experienced the stress induced death drive, more so in my youth... only because i was way more nervous about sex... i think men are more sensitive than women think... there are a million reasons why a man could go limp, most having nothing to with his age... fear of disease, being unattracted, being tired, drunk, stressed... it's wonder how anyone can get hard in this day and age!!!... all that said, i do wonder what my sex drive will be in my 40s and 50s... it gives one pause.
zeitgeisty commented on Oct 28 08 at 7:45 pm
I have to admit that it did happen to me one time where I had the desire but just not the ability. Of course, that time I chalked up to having pleasured myself 3 times already so I was pretty out of it by the time evening hit. Whatta ya gonna do? 39 was a tough age. I mean, with that cool appendage just hanging there, that thing that can please women, shock them, stand at attention, but also does dastardly things like create war and destruction, guns and bombs, and occasionally pees on the neighbor
breathing_in commented on Oct 28 08 at 7:58 pm
I didn't say it was the norm! ("...most people do not end up dating someone significantly older than themselves.") In any case, ED medications have probably changed the game. And I find premature ejaculation much more distressing! If a man couldn't get it up, I imagine I would be happy enough to do something less phallocentric. But when you start, and it's over in 30 seconds, that's just upsetting.
fishnetsandlight commented on Oct 28 08 at 7:59 pm
I imagine erections will become fairly sparse for me once I turn 50. I can't imagine being any less horny, though, so I expect a sudden outburst of kink to accompany my liverspots and mole hairs.
amboabe commented on Oct 28 08 at 8:21 pm
My experiences (with young guys, even) is not that they require no time or effort to get off. Maybe that's because most young guys these days aren't happy with just fucking, and expect to do a variety of things beforehand that require more effort? Whenever my mom talks about guys not liking foreplay, I have difficulty imagining it, and assume it's a generational thing.
Toluca_86 commented on Oct 28 08 at 10:02 pm
The downside to the little blue pill when you're old is that you have to be gentle with your ancient weary heart. But what do I know, maybe old people like having lazy rocking chair sex.
Anonymous commented on Oct 28 08 at 10:47 pm
i don't think i've ever been with a guy who had trouble getting it up. i have had the "unable to orgasm" phenomenon happen with someone more than once. he was (probably still is) on MAOI inhibitors. i wondered if that had anything to do with it.
Anonymous commented on Oct 28 08 at 11:48 pm
oh, i just remembered (thanks for reminding me), there was a guy, about 6 years younger than me. we went out a few times, and attempted to have sex the last 2 times we were together. wow. what a drag. i think i blocked the whole thing out because it was just too unbelievable to me that he couldn't get it up. AND he was completely useless otherwise.
shakti_vos commented on Oct 29 08 at 8:31 am
I will be 56 in February. My only ED problems occurred in my late thirties when I was addicted to heroin (among other things). I would nod out instead of getting it up, more often I would be hard but couldn't come easily (liquor dick). It has been 16+ years since I had a drink or a drug and I still get more hard-ons than I can use and they last as long as they need to. I keep waiting for a decrease in desire to uncloud my mind but it hasn't happened yet........ Keeping your vascular system in shape seems to be helpful, dunno about the psychology.......my orgasm is my responsibility AND I am happy to help with yours (the royal you). I have tried Viagra recreationally and found that it works but has unpleasant side effects-flushing, vision issues and next day hang over; not really worthwhile. The longer we do things the better we get at them.......
flintsteel commented on Oct 29 08 at 9:48 am
dval - man, I am more likely to sprout wings and fly out the window than bake a flaccid man cookies. Yak. Since viagra, the older man gets to prod the young chicks until his heart gives out. Prior to viagra, maybe they are more easily appeased with gifts. My strategy would be to stick with the under 35 crowd. zeit - maybe your late loss of virginity made you unduly anxious about the subject? Although you do seem to be an anxious sort in general. breathing in - 3 beat offs before a date??? That's a big ol skool isn't it? And was "mr Johnson" deliberate or a Freudian slip?
airheadgenius commented on Oct 30 08 at 6:34 pm
fishnets - arrghghghgh!! Can't believe I entirely misquoted you. Sorry bout that. Bound to be Freudian, but can't imagine what the specific cause was. And ewwww, premature ejaculation is not cute at all! Thank gawd it reduces with the man's age. amboabe - I trust the liver spots at 50 was a joke. You are a mean mean oldie hater. Toluca - In my 20 something year experience of sex, there's always been foreplay and it's always been easy to get men off. Until the dreaded 35! And why are you talking to your mother about foreplay?? Thea - I imagine more men are dying on the job, as it were. shakti - yep, those ol MAOI's have a lot to answer for. Be miserable and orgasmic says I! And no stiffy and no discernable other talents is definitely not a good look. flintsteel - "the longer we do things the better we get at them". Oh, if only that were true of everyone!!!
airheadgenius commented on Oct 30 08 at 6:43 pm
My mother is an interesting conglomeration of being kind of conservative and judgmental in some areas and then loving to share these really personal random things in an effort to instruct/warn her children about the world. I'm to a point where hearing personal details about my mom doesn't bother me that much -we're all human, you know? (Plus the bj jokes in front of my dad when I was 13 were much more awkward) And I'll revise my above comment and say that "easy" is a relative term. I think I'm as easy to please as a lot of guys. Actually, when back in high school my friends said it took "no time" to get a guy off, my question was "how long?" and they came back with "no time" and then I was like "really, how long?" and finally they conceded 10 minutes. Well, that's not my idea of no time -I'd been thinking they meant like 30 seconds or something when they'd said that. I have a short attention span.
Toluca_86 commented on Oct 30 08 at 7:43 pm

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