ED in times past

[6gun 44 mag]

Can't say I ever heard talk about ED in times past, in the "good old days"? Is the severity more in the modern age than say--back 50 years ago? 75 years ago? or let's say back in 1730? Do all men get this problem in proportion to men of all ages, or is this something relatively new? I suppose the info is available, but I never saw this.

[thinktank]

Prior to Viagra and the PDE5 drugs, men suffered in silence. Today with the net and with erectile drugs and the mass media marketing of Madison Avenue, E D is big business.

I would think that for guys who were proactive before Viagra and the net, they resorted to strap ons and dildos to please their women. I know when I was a boy in the sixties, I heard about dildos .

Just my two cents.

Some guys like my dad were blessed with good erectile health evidently. As a young college graduate, I heard the bedsprings going at night regularly in dads bedroom and he would have been seventy at that time. That, men, was before the days of erectile drugs in the early seventies of the last century.

[ohohiakane]

Many men, as they grew older, began to realize that "they were losing it".... and without options, they resigned themselves that there sexual lives were over. I know my dad had mentioned that, at 67, he was "too old for sex anymore".

I think that was a common attitude for the old timers back then.

[Neisseria]

As others said, ED has always been there but as now there are effective treatment to fight it, people have to show from the dark and look for help. The newest info says that 50 per cent of >40 years have at least some degree of ED, that is a LOT more that was found before. Another thing is that people now live longer and the prevalence of ED increase by age

[tomas1]

Gee whiz, I'm the only guy I know who has ED.
Is there a chance that men don't talk about these things except on this forum?

[dtwarren1942]

I do not believe guys are open enough, yet, to discuss their ED issues amongst themselves. At a recent high school reunion committee meeting (we are all 71), one of the members brought up the subject of prostate surgery and I mentioned FT. Two of the guys asked me to repeat the web address without explaining why they wanted to know.

One of my friends went through prostrate surgery about a year ago and I still have not felt comfortable enough to ask him how his sex life was effected.

[WoodyJohn]

No, erectile dysfunction was there already and there are some mentions in the literature. Sure that now there is much more information about it as the medicine science progress and people have more ways of communication.

From Wikipedia:

During the late 16th and 17th centuries in France, male impotence was considered a crime, as well as legal grounds for a divorce. The practice, which involved inspection of the complainants by court experts, was declared obscene in 1677.[33]

Dr. John R. Brinkley initiated a boom in male impotence cures in the US in the 1920s and 1930s. His radio programs recommended expensive goat gland implants and "mercurochrome" injections as the path to restored male virility, including operations by surgeon Serge Voronoff.

Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley, Ph.D. dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection.[34] The drug Brindley injected into his penis was a non-specific vasodilator, an alpha-blocking agent, and the mechanism of action was clearly corporal smooth muscle relaxation. The effect that Brindley discovered established the fundamentals for the later development of specific, safe, orally effective drug therapies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erectile_dysfunction