Its due to increase in allopregnanolone.
Quote of the month. Ignorance is a blessing, right?
Sex is very fundamental but surviving is more fundamental. When the latter is in danger, the former is switched off. Can be acute, can be long term in certain situations.
Whatâs the longest you went without ejaculation? Or even more, whatâs the longest you went until you had to fight the urge to ejaculate by any means necessary?
Edit: once again I agree with transient purely sad feelings induced ED/decreased libido in certain cases. I just donât think itâs right to say âitâs in your headâ for as many people who get told that. Even if they are anxious or sad it could be an indicator of something else going on inside and not the problem itself, as in no amount of Thai chi or deep belly breathing or meditation will help them.
People donât âwantâ water and food. They need it to survive.
Do people need to reproduce to survive? Probably so, on the most basic level. Reproduction = survival, especially for those that face an acute or chronic uncertainty to their own physical survival. That could be the primary explanation of why people reproduce in ghettos and under generally horrific wartime scenarios that are our closest approximation of hell on earth.
Also, their are approximately 6 children per household in Nigeria on average. Also, 70 million Nigerians have no access to basic drinking water services and 114 million are without basic sanitation facilities according to statistics from 2021. In northern Nigeria only 30% have readily available drinking water.
One would think that in all of the above scenarios, where people suffered from great anxiety, uncertainty, constant physical and emotional stress, malnourished, lacking basic vitamins, minerals, and food and water in general, that their hormonal milieu would not be optimized. It would actually be pretty fucked.
But the proverbial man and woman still had sex; he managed to get it up, and her reproductive cycle and organs were well enough to manage to carry out a more or less full-term pregnancy.
Do you think the people above were simply aroused, their libido functioning and couldnât wait to rip each otherâs clothes off? Or could there be something more to how the human mind works?
Their are likely a multitude of causes of ED, and probably a number of reasons why men with seemingly identical backgrounds, with normal hormonal values, both eating a well-balanced diet, will have different responses when it comes to becoming aroused and having sex.
The same goes for the opposite sex; why are some women more aroused, some less, some asexual, some hypersexual? Why on Thursday but not on Sunday? Libido? Good diet? Hormones aligned or misaligned? Full moon?
And we most likely donât even know half of them.
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A few weeks. 3 or so. Though I never had ED for longer than an acute case of a few hours or so.
I never had this urge. When I didnât ejaculate for some time, usually it happened during sleep, which is quite annoying.
No one here made that case. You took offense to a straw man that was not uttered by anyone. ED often has a psychological component and in some unfortunate cases it is not a hormonal problem (one example: some heavy smokers). Sometimes it is purely psychological which is one of the likelier causes, because many of those can masturbate but not perform with a woman because of pressure (again, adrenaline overriding other neurotransmitters and responses). Then there are quite a few middle aged men who just fucked their health and natural hormones with bad habits over decades and then try to fix it with TRT and do it successfully so, that still would not mean that the root cause was hormones. Then there are people where it really is just a strong age related decline in hormones.
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Right but thatâs not due to being sad due some temporary circumstance or due to anxiety with every day life. Performance anxiety is what it is, no argument from me.
The anxiety disorders investigated were post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessiveâcompulsive disorder, social phobia/social anxiety disorder and panic disorder. We found that the median [IQR] prevalence of ED was 20.0 [5.1â41.2]% and the median [IQR] International Index of Erectile Function-5 scores were 17.62 [13.88â20.88], indicating a mild to moderate severity. Our review suggests a high prevalence of ED in the anxiety disorder population and ED may be more severe in this cohort, therefore advocating this is an important clinical topic.
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Ok so people more prone to anxiety tend to be anxious about more things like performance anxiety?
Not, I am anxious about XYZ on this specific day so now I am too anxious to have sex on a whole other day or for weeks/months/years.
I donât think anybody is insinuating that this is your cause. The issue is taken when folks like @Robroy state things in absolutes like that is âneverâ the cause. Its factually wrong and there is plenty of research showing causation for all the things I briefly listed and @lordgains elaborated on.
@Robroy donât take this the wrong way. Iâm not calling you out as we all have differing and developing opinions which is why these forums are constructive. Let them all air out.
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Itâs a psychological disorder that causes ED. As Iâve stated here multiple times that these exist. This is by far not the only type of disease that can cause ED, think diabetes, arteriosclerosis and many others.
That is essentially how people with anxiety disorder feel like. They are anxious about X and then the next day they are anxious about Y, but most of the time they are just stressed out and see danger everywhere. Perception of danger and adrenergic reaction is exactly what happens before humans die in evolutionary terms. Again, surviving overriding procreation.
If we want to be sticklers for what was said I never said pro recreation.
Also as I said itâs not just random anxiety, is it? Itâs performance, something someone of high anxiety is prone to. Not a random one off due to something happening once. Hence plenty of people in a constant state of high anxiety and chaos are still able to go on a drop of a dime, they even use it as a damn stress reliever.
Of course other things can cause ED, physical problems. You said âmood not EDâ at some point to me for some reason, then talked about erections anyways.
Anyways is what is no point of talking about this further.
Dunno what u all been saying the last couple posts but if u dont have the freaking URGE to bang, like u go for 5 damn weeks with zero desire to put ur cock in a hole, the problem is ur hormones.
If u sit at home, alone, watching a great porno after 2 weeks or no ejaculation and u feel ZERO desire and u cant even force urself to get a boner, ur hormones are OFF and it is not due to âstressâ or âperformance anxietyâ.
Hormones! (Or the lacking neurotransmitters as a result), nothing else.
Nobody will convince me otherwise, and ye im hard headed cause i know im right.
And im always right, even when im wrong.
And i always tell the truth, even when i lie.
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Except when you were Equel and on your low E2 kick.
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well stated. You scare me sometimes because you say some stuff that makes a lot of sense and then some doozies from left field.
Once iq has rised, everything will make sense!!
Interesting, your whole post now is about libido.
that is correct. you understand, sir, im impressed!
Agreed
So libido and erections are the same thing? Or more like one is a derivative of the other with many other factors affecting the equation?
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Hell no, not the same thing at all. Ofc ED can be caused by performance anxiety etc.
However, my own little theory is that if u are horny enough it will override all kinds of performance anxiety as the only thing you can think of is tearin sum up.
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