Contrary to form, I would think that the limp would avoid nubile young girls because their dysfunction would be forever solidified.  With older gals they can appease themselves, "Ah ha! I just wasn't turned on enough."  And age-appropriate fillies might even bake them cookies after the big flop.  

"Where the rot sets in" is the funniest and most brutal description alluding to a stress-induced death drive that is the salt that shrivels the slug.  

I have to admit that it did happen to me one time where I had the desire but just not the ability.  Of course, that time I chalked up to having pleasured myself 3 times already so I was pretty out of it by the time evening hit.  Whatta ya gonna do?  39 was a tough age.  I mean, with that cool appendage just hanging there, that thing that can please women, shock them, stand at attention, but also does dastardly things like create war and destruction, guns and bombs, and occasionally pees on the neighbor’s tree (sorry ‘bout that Mr. Johnson!), it’s a shock men show up to work at all with all the flogging that’s deserved.

I’ve seen the ads, read the articles, and felt sorry for the men who had willing participants in front of them but not in their pants (and maybe I fantasized about their wives now and again, too, searching for an active partner) but thank God there’s a pill I can take.  Can you imagine?  Diet?  Nope.  Exercise?  Nope.  You don’t even have to go to therapy.  Just take a pill and everything’s working again.  Sounds easy and luxurious to me.  The octogenarian’s equivalent of acid, I suppose.  What a world we live in where if you like each other you can keep fucking for as long as your heart will let you.  I wonder if they’ll come up with a blue pill that makes you like each other.

I still don’t know what’s worse, though, not being able to get it up, or having to walk around in public when it happens unexpectedly.  (And by unexpectedly, I mean, I was thinking about sex for about an hour at the office and when I stood up I said to myself, “now where did that come from?!”)  

Any way you look at it, it’s tough being a guy.

My experiences (with young guys, even) is not that they require no time or effort to get off.  Maybe that's because most young guys these days aren't happy with just fucking, and expect to do a variety of things beforehand that require more effort?  Whenever my mom talks about guys not liking foreplay, I have difficulty imagining it, and assume it's a generational thing.

The downside to the little blue pill when you're old is that you have to be gentle with your ancient weary heart. But what do I know, maybe old people like having lazy rocking chair sex.

i don't think i've ever been with a guy who had trouble getting it up.  i have had the "unable to orgasm" phenomenon happen with someone more than once.  he was (probably still is) on MAOI inhibitors.  i wondered if that had anything to do with it.  

oh, i just remembered (thanks for reminding me), there was a guy, about 6 years younger than me.  we went out a few times, and attempted to have sex the last  2 times we were together.  wow.  what a drag.  i think i blocked the whole thing out because it was just too unbelievable to me that he couldn't get it up. AND he was completely useless otherwise.  

I will be 56 in February. My only ED problems occurred in my late thirties when I was addicted to heroin (among other things). I would nod out instead of getting it up, more often I would be hard but couldn't come easily (liquor dick). It has been 16+ years since I had a drink or a drug and I still get more hard-ons than I can use and they last as long as they need to. I keep waiting for a decrease in desire to uncloud my mind but it hasn't happened yet........

Keeping your vascular system in shape seems to be helpful, dunno about the psychology.......my orgasm is my responsibility AND I am happy to help with yours (the royal you).

I have tried Viagra recreationally and found that it works but has unpleasant side effects-flushing, vision issues and next day hang over; not really worthwhile.

The longer we do things the better we get at them.......

My mother is an interesting conglomeration of being kind of conservative and judgmental in some areas and then loving to share these really personal random things in an effort to instruct/warn her children about the world.

I'm to a point where hearing personal details about my mom doesn't bother me that much -we're all human, you know?  (Plus the bj jokes in front of my dad when I was 13 were much more awkward)

And I'll revise my above comment and say that "easy" is a relative term.  I think I'm as easy to please as a lot of guys.  Actually, when back in high school my friends said it took "no time" to get a guy off, my question was "how long?" and they came back with "no time" and then I was like "really, how long?" and finally they conceded 10 minutes.  Well, that's not my idea of no time -I'd been thinking they meant like 30 seconds or something when they'd said that.  I have a short attention span.