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Erection Problems: Physical or Emotional?One of the fundamental questions that occurs to many men and their partners who've suffered a loss of erection is exactly what the lack of erection means. One reason for this is that it is possible to confuse the loss of an erection with the loss of interest in sex: women in particular seem to make this error and can take impotence very personally. So, if you're a man who does not have an erection in a sexual situation, it's important to be aware that your partner may well think that you are not turned on by her, and it's also possible that she thinks she doesn't know what to do to turn you on. And of course it is possible that this is true: it's possible that a man simply isn't aroused by his partner at that particular moment, or that she's not doing what he'd like to get him aroused. However, it's also true that the majority of the time the lack of an erection, or the loss of an erection, in a sexual encounter, means something completely different. So, for example, say a man is sexually aroused, and wants to have sex. Then he finds that his penis doesn't respond. This is incredibly frustrating situation for most men, and often for their partners, but there is always an explanation....there is clearly some obstacle preventing sexual arousal from translating into a hard erection suitable for intercourse. In many cases, the problem will be very simple, and perhaps very obvious. It's possible, as you may know if this has happened to you, that you require a certain type of sexual stimulation to become sexually aroused and to get hard, and you're simply not getting it. Maybe this is because you have a new partner who doesn't know what you need, or maybe she's simply forgotten, or maybe she's acting out some emotion of her own and simply doesn't want to supply the stimulation you need to get an erection. Another possibility is that you've had so much sex in the last day or so that your penis simply unable to become erect again so soon. Unfortunately, the problem is usually something else. You see, the thing is, an erection requires a lot of things to go right in side the body, and a lot of co-ordination. Both the nervous system and the blood circulatory system have to be capable of responding in the correct way, and then to do it, which requires sexual arousal and a certain emotional state: if your emotions are not right, they can certainly impede the process of getting an erection. But of all these issues, it's circulation which is probably most important for good erections. Anything, be it physical or emotional, that stops enough blood getting to the penis can cause erection problems. There's a widespread viewpoint that many erection problems, including loss of erection and lack of erection, are actually the result of disease alone or drugs alone or a combination of the two: and that certainly may be true in some cases, but it's my experience that the great majority of erection problems are caused by a combination of physical and emotional factors or by emotional factors alone. As I've already said, anything that interferes with enough blood arriving at the penis, or stops it being kept in the penis, or anything that interferes with the ability of the nervous system to control your circulation can cause erection problems. Now, you may be asking what medical conditions could cause this. The answer is there are several: they include hormonal problems, often due to age-related testosterone decline, the onset of diabetes, heart disease and circulatory problems such as blocked arteries, multiple sclerosis, and certain injuries to the spinal cord and some back problems, as well as injuries and surgery to the pelvis, caused perhaps by prostate surgery. Other culprits are long-term cigarette smoking and alcoholism. However
it's extremely important to be aware that erection problems are not
necessarily caused by hardening of the arteries or any of the other
conditions mentioned above, even if you happen to have those conditions. The
truth is, in many cases, erection loss is caused by anxiety and other emotions
– and of course, having said that, it's always important to determine what's
actually happening inside the body, just in case there are some real problems
developing. However, your ability to get and maintain an erection is influenced, as I've already said, by your emotions, and in particular, by what's happening within your relationship. If you're anxious about getting or maintaining an erection, it's highly likely that you will in fact have some kind of erection problem – perhaps even being unable to get an erection to start with. Other emotions definitely play a part in erection problems as well. For example anger, regardless of who you're feeling angry at, can certainly block your ability to get an erection. So, interestingly enough, can the absence of feeling, which in the case of sex roughly equates to a lack of arousal. In the hundreds of emails that I've received over the years from young men trying to have sex for the first time, who want to know why they lost their erection (or never got hard in the first place), it's clear that many of them suffered impotence or erection loss because they were highly anxious, or their minds were completely preoccupied by something else (probably whether or not they were going to ejaculate too soon), or because they didn't like their partner, or they didn't find her attractive. All of these things can apply to men of any age. And they are all enough to cause loss of erection and erection problems.....nonetheless, the message you should take from this article is that not having an erection does not necessarily mean that you do not want to enjoy sex… expressed as simply as possible, it just means that your penis is less hard and stiff than you desire it to be. Other pages on this website about erection problems, erectile dysfunction and impotence
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