WHAT PEOPLE REALLY KNOW ABOUT BASIC FACTS OF IMPOTENCY
Even people who are knowledgeable and worldly about many things may nonetheless continue to be very ignorant of the basic facts of potency. There’s Peter, for example, a 63-year-old, successful businessman with two grown children. He was married for 30 years and enjoyed a good emotional and sexual relationship with his wife before she died last year. Usually a calm, somewhat formal gentleman, he becomes noticeably agitated when asked about his understanding of erection. “I never had any sex education from anywhere! I had very little knowledge of erection. Until recently, I didn’t even know it was blood entering the penis that made the erection.”
And if s not just men of Peter’s generation who don’t know important information about how the male bodyworks. Adam is 39, a college-educated hotel manager, married for 12 years. “We grew up on a farm, so we learned some things just from seeing the animals. But not enough. When I was 15 I started having Vet dreams’, and I was sure I was terribly abnormal in some way. I used to have this one dream about a naked woman swinging through the air on a trapeze. I had the same dream and the same results for several months.” He smiles at the recollection, clearly enjoying the picture in his mind. “Finally I went to my older brother—he was about 23 at the time—and he explained what was happening to me. He was helpful and supportive. At that point in time I had no understanding of the basic physiology of erection, and I’m pretty sure I don’t know too much to this day. I went to a big state university and belonged to a fraternity. We never talked about sex seriously, just about it as a conquest. We never talked about any problems with sex. .” Even now, Adam acknowledges, the subject makes him nervous.
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