Originally Posted by train spot
It was more of an admiration towards your capabilities, not really making me personally insecure, just feeling insecure when knowing what potential sexmates are out there besides myself.
I have edged for long periods of time without porn as well, I have also done pumping with low pressure for longer periods of time without porn.
Thanks for writing out so much, I guess I’ll try and go off porn completely for a couple of months and see what happens. I wasn’t watching porn everyday fwiw, I constantly found myself not watching porn at all for 5-10days in a row and I would get back to them for 2-3days in a row, maybe 4.
I don’t feel horny throughout the day without an actual visual impulse, a woman on the street for example, and that might not work everytime either, there has to be some involvement with myself in order to get blood into my dick, her looking at me as well or something like that.
When taking tadalafil, I only have to look at a girl from a distance and almost instantly my dick gets more blood into it, kegels feel stronger without any pre workout kegeling or reverse kegeling. How is that bad in the long run, how would 2 years of taking this stuff not help my erections for life?
This could be my main frustration at the moment, why can’t I feel comfortable taking these meds if they feel so helpful ? I constantly find myself reading some other posts from other members, I don’t even care if it’s their first post on the forum, I fall for it: “Don’t take ED meds because you’ll end up having ED” quote/unquote, btw, I am now 7 days off them, haven’t watched porn for at least 4 days too.
How is this even possible ? ED drugs are bad for erection quality in the long run ? Is becoming a master at kegels and lifestyle/diet/mental health the only single way to incredible EQ and hours of involuntary night wood ?
I mean, why can’t someone have another, maybe easier but riskier route out of this horror movie called Erectyle Disfunction? Must we all become gurus in 1-3 years ? Lots of females to be embarrassed in front of in 3 years time imo, I’m not 18-21 yo anymore, the doors are starting to close in this game from how I feel it, so I’d rather take these cheap, reliable, over-the-counter pills, sorry!
AGREED!!
Actually, clinically the studies show that cialis use is maybe the best for not having ED-med dependency or losing EQ through time of taking ED meds. Cialis is great for prostate issues, actually it is being prescribed to help men with prostate problems even if they don’t have ED issues. I’ve read more than a few studies that say long term use of Cialis/tadalifil does not create dependence or hamper erection quality or ability to get hard with it.
Well, regarding your “seeing women on the street makes me hard on cialis but not hard not on cialis” is kind of asking for too much from yourself. I mean I don’t and never have gotten hard or maybe at best a little blood went into my cock and I got a semi in my pants or something upon seeing a stone cold hottie on the street, but if I’m not touching myself, I’m not getting hard. Cialis makes you hard very easily (my god the first time I took it I was just waiting around to see when it would work and peed and started to get a little hard after peeing just cuz I touched my cock! That’s how good it works.) so yah, on the street, your mind is going, you see her, you think of getting hard or even not, and bam the drugs make you start getting hard. But its totally OKAY and NATURAL to not get a boner or even a big semi in public, on the street, if you see a hot girl. I mean if you think I ‘got it going on’ but I don’t get hard just on my own in public like in situations you describe, then you can’t beat yourself up over not getting hard in that situation unless you’re on cialis.
But, I do think cialis helps with overall erections especially when not on it. I hadn’t cum in 5 days, hadn’t been intimate with my wife in well over a week, and I wondered, stupidly, “what will my erection be tonight? I bet I’ll be really hard! At least I hope!?” and why did I think that?? Just mainly because ED is on everyone’s radar. Its like all us men have to think about. Guys with perfect equipment forced to wonder if they will get hard knowing damn well they always do. What is making us think this way!?!? So yah, at 1am, both of us tired, I asked my wife “you wanna fuck?” and she said, “not sure, I need to get excited so you don’t hurt my pussy” because she’s in menopause and its not easy like it used to be, but, after a minute of kissing and caressing her, she was on it, and I was naked and just started swelling, she got naked, and then while standing in front of her she grabbed me and I got so hard it was like my spine was attached to my penis and it made my rectum feel really full. I was so hard I actually couldn’t believe I was that hard! And I never lost wood even while eating her pussy and we fucked for maybe just 10 minutes (don’t really need all that time anymore and she can’t handle it anyway) and man what an eruptive finish :) However, prior to the initiation of sex, I paused and wondered and had a little self-doubt.
Even when you can do it, you think sometimes you can’t. It is the problem men face today: we are forced to think about ED regardless if whether or not it has an effect on us. “Yes, I’m healthy, but, what if????” Not a good way to live, I hope we can all be stronger and find confidence within ourselves and let the doubt fade away.
I do think, no, believe, porn desensitizes a man’s penis and sexual response. There’s just something like hardwired into the camera they use or something that makes it all seem like you need it to get off. It stems back to when we learned how to masturbate as adolescents: did you/us/we learn how to masturbate WHILE watching porn or just all alone with nothing on? Makes a HUGE difference in the man’s future it seems. This stuff freaks me out! And I feel bad for these poor boys out there with their porn before they’re even in high school. Sad stuff!
Take your sexuality in stride. Meditate on it. Think positive about your sex and your genitals. Love them. Tell them they are awesome. Really believe your gonads are amazing and lovely and work awesomely. Have more confidence in your known abilities than self-doubt over them. I know I might make this sound easy to do, but just start loving yourself and your genitals more now than ever before. I think men need to be doing that a whole lot more now and they need to take this very seriously. You’ve grown your cock, that is fantastic! See, its a testament to how much you love your penis and yourself. We need to love ourselves, its not selfish to be into your own self and own abilities. Fuck the person that says thinking this way is selfish. Then I’m a selfish, happy muthafucka then!
Keep working through all of this! You can achieve anything :)