My Son Said His Dick Went Limp

No, I’m not making this up. Before I take my 17 year old son to the doctor, I was hoping to find some help here.

So my son messaged me today asking if I had ever not been able to get it up. After I dug around, he told me the last time he had an erection was 2 days ago and that was when he masturbated. Since then, no morning wood and unable to get an erection. I asked if he had been stretching or pulling his schlong and he said no. He said it’s just limp - not cold, hard or shriveled. Any thoughts?

Is it time you introduced your son to PE for penile health? I can’t recommend anything unless maybe you can find out if he thinks he did himself an injury during wanking. Id give it atleast a few more days before getting a doctor involved

I tried getting more out of him to see if he overdid it. He was honest enough about beating off, so I have no reason to believe he’s not telling me the truth. I told him to wrap a hot wash cloth or a heating pad around his penis and I’ll teach him BTB jeqing and see if that helps before I get him to a doctor.

I would get him to a doc sooner than later. Almost certainly nothing serious is wrong, but there could be. More importantly, its probably more a mental thing than anything physical, so hearing from an expert that everything will be ok and there’s no problem will help more than anything else he could do.

I kind of think so too, regarding the mental aspect. I tried getting to the bottom of it - like, was he and his girlfriend talking about doing something? (to my knowledge, he’s still a virgin.) He said nothing out of the ordinary. Over the summer he was having some really strange crap happening with numbness so the doctor had him do some stretches and that cleared it up (unrelated to this current issue) but he also had some anxiety issues. Not sure if that’ll keep you from getting wood. Anyway, thanks for the advice.

I would have never told my father that I was masturbating. At least he is honest. He is too young, get him to a doctor.

He is honest to a fault. And I agree he is way too young for this.

How is your son doing?

Not sure what happened, but he was able to get a full erection yesterday. Poor kid - that about destroyed his sense of self worth. Thanks for the concern, bro!

Good news. Erections start and end in your brain, once you get the idea there’s a problem it can be so hard to shake it.

I think a lot of it is in his head. He doesn’t handle stress and anxiety well and I think it played a HUGE role in this. Needless to say, the poor guy’s had a rough year.

For the first time in my life, last April (2013) I have encountered a problem with erectile dysfunction. Because of that, I lost faith in myself as a man and thought of myself as not worthy of being called a man. It took me two full months of depression and searching for the answer when I finally realized that I was under a lot of stress. I had 4 huge exams, just broke up with my girlfriend and found a new one, had problems with my parents and low self-esteem situation (that’s been around for couple of years). Once I understood the majority of my problems, I was able to confront some of them. As I solved problems, my self-confidence grew and my problems with erection seemed to go away.

From my own experience (and from the experience of my friends), I concluded that stress and depression have huge influence on sexual functionality and sexuality in general.

I wouldn’t recommend PE yet, but I would certainly recommend some exercise. Getting in shape usually boosts the spirit.

Hope your son gets better.

Thanks for sharing, Bobo. I also went through some severe depression and was unable to maintain an erection, even during sex. My poor wife took it personally.

My son has had a lot of stress and some anxiety lately and it had other negative effects on him over the summer. Thanks for the well wishes - he seems “cured” now. I hope you’re better, as well.

The “new girlfriend” from my previous post is my current girlfriend. She was very understanding when it came to my erection problem. I never felt that bad, because I either couldn’t reach the erection or maintain it during sex. My girlfriend, being a blonde with big titties, took that also personally. Did she see me as a wimp during those two months, I cannot know. Imagine me, a 24 y/o guy who was used to prancing with instant erections only moments or minutes away after the orgasm, no matter how many orgasms I had before that one and then everything just disappeared.

As I said, talking and exercising might help. It definitely boosts self-confidence. I can only imagine how awful it is when you’re 17.

I think your son will work out his own problems. He’s just a young buck growing and learning to cope with things.

Schlong, so far it sounds like you are a good father and raised a good son. For one to be so honest with a parent,

that young man will do fine.