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I certainly did. Unlike the vacuum penis pump or the injection of the tri-mixture into the penis, the ED medications are able to tap into the emotional experience of sex. The pump is a machine. It gets the job done, but it doesn’t require that the man using it have any erotic or romantic involvement [...]

A much more extensive study was begun. This time, 351 patients, between the ages of twenty-four and seventy, participated. Randomly, the men were assigned to take the pill at one of three doses (10, 25, or 50 mg) or a placebo. After twenty-eight days, almost 90 percent of the men taking the 50 mg pill [...]

Removal of the prostate can affect the ability to have an erection. This is the invariable result of the most commonly performed procedure, known as the radical prostatectomy. A newer surgical technique now attempts to preserve the appropriate nerves in order to safeguard erectile function. However, 50 percent of the men will experience erectile difficulties, [...]

The specific formulation of tri-mix drugs to be administered is based on the type of erection achieved with test dosages. This is determined by your urologist during an office visit in which a sample tri-mix formulation is injected into the penis. Your comfort, the degree of erection obtained, and the time it takes for you [...]

By the sixteenth century, a degree of science had been introduced into the study of male sexual function. Varolio, an Italian physician, was the first to note that blood flowed through the penis. Unfortunately, this keen insight was followed by a gap in medical research that can be aittributed to prudish societal attitudes about anything [...]