barrylandon wrote:Your journal posts are always informative and engaging. Thanks for putting in the time to write them. In your last post, you mentioned that you're not getting blood flow to your glans so not much engorgement going on. But how does this affect your orgasms and ejaculations? I have the same problem with lack of glans engorgement but it has been impossible for me to orgasm or ejaculate with my sexy wife. Even masturbation with visual stimulation takes a very long time for orgasm/ejaculation to happen (or not!). I'm currently experimenting with inserting a phentolamine gel into my urethra but it hasn't produced any engorgement, I've got one more gel to try that's a bi-mix of the phentolamine with aprostadil. However, I approach this with trepidation because when I injected alprostadil into my shaft prior to my IPP surgery, I had to make 4 trips to the ER for Priapism and the erections hurt like hell. So I'm hopeful the bi-mix will work without the terrible side effects.
I learned so much from other guys here back when I was lurking a few years ago and just reading and reading and processing thoughts, making my notes. It is fulfilling to talk to guys here now and then and share experiences or just validate, encourage and see forward progress, for sure.
The glans and orgasms and masturbation. You reminded me of some things and they're sort of instructive I guess.
I can definitely still have really intense, extremely satisfying orgasms during masturbation. We have pretty frequent sex, but my libido really is mostly off the rails, so I do also masturbate fairly frequently. Several times in a typical week. Often on off days when we don't have sex. Sometimes on days we DO have sex (but I didn't know we were going to have sex, right? Might masturbate in the AM then we have sex at night. Fortunately the implant of course supports my frequently delinquent behavior). I still find my dick, overall, shaft, glans, underneath, very similarly sensitive to what I had prior to implant. My sac/balls are less sensitive, noticeably so, but that was never really important to me.
With masturbation now I find my best enjoyment/technique mostly identical to what it was prior to implant. I either want to get off really quickly or I want to settle in a little bit and enjoy a longer chunk of
me time. If I just want fast...I typically use a vibrator. I have my favorite. Still have the same awesome orgasms I always had with that thing. I honestly don't discern a real difference from prior I don't think. I can come in probably a minute or less. Maybe 2 minutes tops. Original Hitachi magic wand on low. Truly magic. Oddly, it didn't work for her, so it's my go-to. A bit loud, and not the most discrete toy, but we're empty nesters and we've earned our right to noisily masturbate.
If I have more time, I will probably chuck the vibrator and stroke myself with my hands. It's very possible that these days I am using more firm pressure. I do know that these days now I don't enjoy so much masturbating by hand, dry, without some sort of lubricant. That's different from prior. Before implant I definitely would masturbate without lube. Now I've become kind of a big fan of grapeseed oil. We use it as a massage oil due to its properties of a tiny bit going a long way and it remaining slick but not too slick and for a long period of time. Anyway, if I'm masturbating like this, I do find it very enjoyable and I can direct and control my orgasms well. I'm edging myself more these days, time permitting.
While I imagine I have been fortunate to maintain this (based on what some of the guys share here) I think it's probably fair to say that these days it takes a bit firmer grip for me. I'm more focused on my shaft, that's where I find my pleasure masturbating, but that was actually always the case.
With my wife...yes, for sure, there are plenty of times now where, with vaginal penetration alone, I am not quite able to come. Sometimes I just don't. I feel very very very
close...but there's a point where it just seems for whatever reason like I'm going to miss and I shift gears and resign myself to missing and it's all actually fine with me. Really. Not infrequently, after she comes, we'll work me to orgasm some way or another. She'll masturbate me firmly with her hands or she will use a vibe or toy on me, and I'll
always come from that. So yes, for sure, there can occasionally be a barrier of some sort with coming in her vagina now. I don't know. Sometimes in this situation when I withdraw from her vagina she'll ask me to masturbate for her and I will and minutes after not being quite able to come in her vagina I do come from masturbating openly for her and I love it and come like crazy. Paging Dr. Freud.
Dr. Freud...???? I don't know why that's the way it is! Or...also...sometimes I stay in her vagina and one of us will masturbate my shaft into her. Again...most always ends in a fun orgasm. No clue why, or what's different. She says it's just a little dirtier - like I am using her for my pleasure. I don't pretend to understand most of this, I just roll with it...
But I don't believe for a minute that this is a purely mental thing for me, that just doesn't wash for us. She wants me to come in her, asks for it, always has, and my coming will accelerate her orgasm greatly. Which I sometimes want but sometimes don't (or not yet anyway). As I've said, she's plenty tight in my opinion, it's just that the other variable - my dick size - has shifted smaller. So less friction for me. I'm wondering if the post-implant guys who experienced diminished ability to orgasm during penetration, maybe those guys always predominantly found their pleasure/orgasm chiefly due to their having a particularly sensitive glans - and maybe I'm different because glans sensitivity was seemingly never the primary driver of my orgasm. I really don't know. I do know that, if she comes...we're mostly close to being done. She is only very rarely a multi-orgasm girl. She's 90% of the time working her way up, up up to the one bone-rattling orgasm. Then she's obliterated and wants to sleep soon. Kind of a dude, that way.
Also, having my orgasm with her (in her) it's truly just not my own primary driver. I enjoy the journey itself too much to get super focused on the seemingly logical end result, ie orgasms. They're awesome obviously. I want them, obviously. It's just that, with her(and this feeling precedes my implant) I mostly just want to be able to go and go for a really extended period of time. Long, extended, creative sessions trump orgasm for me almost always. Before implant, back during the days of pills and then injections, I had trained myself to not come. Or, better said...to not come for a very very long time until I decided specifically that I would come. I found real control and joy in the prolonged experience of lovemaking and I think, over a number of years (when I first met her, after I was divorced) this sort of became our thing with one another. We were both highly sexual people coming from marriages with less-than-sexual (perfunctory) partners prior. So she and I found ourselves both so happy and motivated to delay orgasm in lieu of longer, more intense, more extended sessions. There's some mental gymnastics in play here for she and I that I think are relevant - I mean...both of us de-emphasize our own orgasms during, probably, the majority of our sessions. I have no idea how common this may be.
As to times where I choose to drive quickly to orgasm during sex with her, I think that's a big part of why, if I'm being honest here, I am finding anal so appealing these days. I don't see anal as ever becoming our primary, our go-to sex act, but god almighty the friction and tightness is just ridiculous and intensely addictive, just no way around that. There's of course also the taboo/dirty factor of it all and I suppose you can't underestimate how the mental dirtiness enhances and encourages orgasm, too. Her bum is an absolute fucking vice grip. It takes all the control I can summon to delay coming in her. She
knows it, too. She uses that knowledge as power, as a tool. If she senses me (in her vagina) wanting to come at some point but not quite being able to get there, she will sometimes say something filthy about her ass or she will just roll over and...present it as (sorry, crude here, but true) a willing come receptacle. She will switch from vaginal to anal to tip me over. 100% effectiveness ratio. She understands the power she wields.
I think I mentioned, my surgeon did encourage some experimentation with a good quality vacuum device and/or some appropriate constriction rings. I know there are guys here having some success better engorging their glans by using these methods. Am still undecided. I'm resistant to adding devices to build out some bigger more involved process of having sex. That's the precise opposite of what I sought in pursuing implantation. I acknowledge that there are guys having successes with all that, I'm just unconvinced it's important enough to me at this point. Sex is different but great these days. But to be fair, it'll at some point be a dialogue I return to with my wife. Maybe the glans engorgement isn't something I care one way or the other to mess with via vacuum, rings, or topicals/intra-urethrals...but maybe she will at some point want to try some of those, based on her experiences being on the receiving end of a now-smaller dick.
Have tried 100mg Viagra 2x in recent weeks to see if any effect. Jury still out. Both times I sort of liked the fact that I had some sense of that old familiar feeling of little rushes and whooshes of blood moving through my dick during foreplay. That part was cool. I didn't tell her either time that I had taken the Viagra (I wanted an unbiased reaction, ie, if I said nothing, was she independently going to notice and then mention any perceived difference/improvement from her point of view?). First time she did not say anything. Second time she asked me immediately afterward if I had taken something. She said it felt different and bigger. She knew my surgeon had suggested trying Viagra because she came with me to my last visit. More to be learned there I think. I frankly didn't visually see nor did I necessarily feel enhanced engorgement with the Viagra, but maybe I'm not the best judge of some of this stuff anymore and maybe she is...
Sorry. Long ass reply.
But you got me thinking and sort of tumbling all these variables in my mind again. For whatever it may be worth, god knows.
54 yrs. Blessed with highly sexual 52 yr old wife. Pills 10 years, then 9 yrs Trimix. 28 cm Titan Touch XL 2019, Laurence Levine, Rush Univ Med Ctr, Chicago. Implant = nonstop fun. Hypogonadal, so also 10+ years testosterone replacement.