How to measure Erection Quality

OK, so by searching (both the forum and google), I haven’t found a practical way for PE’ers to measure their EQ.

On this forum, I’ve found that people tend to use a non-defined scale of 1-10 to describe their erections. If you ask me, this method is not objective enough.
Googleing, I’ve found out about EHS (Erection Hardness Scale), a method that I find very unsuitable for PE purposes.

Therefore, I suggest developing our own EQ scale, for PE use. This scale will effectively show where you are erection-wise, and will provide a good and objective way to measure our progress and follow EQ as a PI.
Let me remind you, we need to know every aspect of our erections: nite and morning wood, hardness, amount of work/time it takes to achieve it, reaction in stressful situations etc.

So, in order to determine where you are, take a few minutes, and answer these few questions:

1. When nervous or anxious, you can probably achieve:
a) No erection (0-50%) - 0 points
a) Small erections (50-80%) - 1 point
c) Hard erections (80%-100%) - 2 points

2. After (or during) a stressful day, can you achieve an erection?
a) Yes - 1 point
b) No - 0 points

3. When extremely aroused, do you have problems achieving an erection?
a) No - 1 points
c) Yes - 0 points

4. When only slightly aroused, do you have problems achieving an erection?
a) Never - 2 points
b) Sometimes - 1 point
c) Always - 0 points

5. Can you achieve an erection without any stimulation and/or visual aids (by pumping-in blood with the BC musle)?
a) Yes - 1 point
b) No - 0 points

6. While having sex or masturbating, sometimes after a while, your erections weaken.
a) No - 1 point
b) Yes - 0 points

7. While having sex or masturbating, how strong are your erections on average?
a) Strong - 1 point
b) Weak or none - 0 points

8. Do you have regular nite and morning wood?
a) Yes - 1 point
b) No - 0 points

Just add-up your points, and see where you are at this objective 0-10 EQ scale.
And please tell me, where were you (on the scale) before starting PE, and where are you now?

Before starting PE, I was 2/10 on this scale, and now I am 5/10. Sadly, that is still pretty weak…

Don’t feel bad. I’m about 5.5. I’m usually hard during sex but I have some anxiety during sex occasionally that weakens my erections. I think your scale is good. I wonder if there any 10’s out there based on your scale?

5/10 here also

Now: 9-10.

Before PE (estimate): 6-8?

@e211 and bohm:

How can you be between 5 and 6, and 9 and 10? The scale is pretty concrete, there are no half-points.

I had trouble with this one:

1. When nervous or anxious, you can probably achieve:
a) No erection (0-50%) - 0 points
b) Small erections (50-80%) - 1 point
c) Hard erections (80%-100%) - 2 points

Very likely not a) but it’s a toss up between b) and c) because it depends on how nervous I am. The problem is that since I started PEing, I haven’t had many situations where I was very nervous and trying to get erect. I can get erect (over 80% but not fully) with a cam pic and my wife almost at will within a few seconds but I’m guessing if I had to test it out in some very anxiety-producing situations (back to work, etc.), I may only get to b). Not sure.

Have always been 9 out of ten, am close to 60 now and very little has changed since I first met puberty

I would say my EQ on this scale varies from a 5 to a 6 on a day to day basis. If I feel relaxed and I’m seeing a new PE gain my EQ shoots up. If I read a thread about how women crave monster dicks my EQ is down. If I read about a study saying average dick size is smaller than we thought my EQ is up. There are weeks where I’m stressed at work and feeling like my PE sessions aren’t going well and my EQ just crashes. If I’m on vacation and relaxing I have inappropriate boners constantly.

Maybe 6. Just starting PE so this will be interesting to monitor.

Boo today I am having a bad day

Stressful = poor erection for me

The first two weeks of last month sucked

I broke free from the depression I had

I was so freakin stressed out I could not even get a erection at all I was also physically stressed out on top of it

My anxiety is also a erection killer for me also

Huge misunderstanding to think EQ means just the hardness of your erection. Hardness is just one category. This is the definition from the Thread on EQ (linked at the bottom of this post);

1) Ease of erections (how easily it happens).
2) Frequency of erections (how frequently they happen).
3) Hardness of erections.
4) How long they last before fading, ease of keeping them.
5) Refractory period (how quickly you can get hard again after ejaculation).
6) Nite and morning wood.

If you evaluate EQ from just one category, you can misread it. For example, many guys say,” I hardly ever get nite or morning wood, does that mean I have low EQ?” That can be answered by observing the rest of the categories. IF your erections are hard, frequent, easy to achieve, easy to maintain…then I wouldn’t at all worry about the nite and morning wood.

On the other hand, if you notice a recent DECREASE of morning and nite wood, as well as softer erections, less frequent, harder to keep it hard and its taking much longer to get hard after cumming, then you have definitely experienced a drop of EQ.

That said, you may find that one or two categories can give you an accurate representation of the spectrum. For me, if nite wood is decreasing, AND its harder to get an erection…it is a reliable indicator that my EQ has dropped.

Perfect example.

Psychological stress WILL NOT drop EQ! Yes, it will decrease a couple of the categories, but when viewed in totality, you will see that your overall EQ hasn’t dropped. True EQ drop, will drop it in all categories.

The primary cause for us here at Thunders of EQ drop, is over training with PE! It can cause a true decrease of EQ, which will be seen in all the categories. If you are stressed by life, some of the categories can decrease, but rarely all of them.

For example, the way Docs differentiate true impotence or ED (erectile dysfunction) from Psychogenic (mental causes) is to hook you up to a meter during your sleep. If your mental stress is rendering you dysfunctional during your waking hours, you will still have normal erections during your sleep. This is not true EQ drop.

On the other hand, true ED will decrease nite time erections as well as during the waking hours.

I wrote the EQ thread to help members design a productive PE routine, so they can differentiate between true over training and just the effects of psychological stress, like the confusion most of you guys have. If you can’t tell the difference between true EQ drop and mental stress, you will have a very difficult time designing and executing a productive PE plan.

Hope this cleared it up.

Another example of completely misunderstanding EQ. If you believe you have a dropped EQ here, you would decrease your PE routine. What if your routine was perfectly designed, and you took a whole week off because you thought you had decreased EQ? You will be slowing or stopping any gains you had in development!

If would be a good idea if you read the whole EQ thread.

Um when I am stressed out
Getting a Erection is impossible !

There was a 3 month period last year where I was so stressed out , I did not masturbate for 3 months straight because of it..
Did try to but it was not enjoyable

Also my hair grows abnormally fast when I am stressed out
About 1/2 inch per week

You still don’t understand. EQ stands for Erectile QUALITIES. Hardness is just one of them. Inability to get an erection because of mental STRESS, IS NOT a drop in EQ.

I’m not saying mental stress doesn’t effect the ability to get an erection, it does…but that’s not a drop in EQ.