At what age will a man's sexual health start to go downhill?

If you smoke, you will notice a drop in your labedo by the time you are around 40. I quit smokeing at 50, by that time it took me quite a long time to get an erection. It has been twenty years now since I quit smoking, Now at 70, I am all dick again, although now, it is with the help of Cialis, and Viagera. I also think that PE helps me maintain a good erection. I have sex about three times a week now. My new Philippineo GF who is 28, keeps me well oiled, lots of lubrication. Sex is great at 70.

Interesting Terry. So at 70, do you need the ED pills every time you have sex, or do you use them just as an enhancement?

No problems here I’m 45 years old and was taking care of three women 4 months ago till two of them found out.

Sex 7 to 12 times a week, I loved it. When I was married it was about 1 to 2 times a week. I was still horny then but was not going to stray. Currently about four times a week with the one that did not find out about the other two.

First: Congratulations to all the sexual athletes who have posted on this thread. You have good genes, a healthy masculine mindset, and much better than average hormones. A doctor in our local paper today stated that the norm for most men is to loose 1% of their testosterone per year at age 30 and beyond.

From what I see online from men, a high percentage of men at age 55 are experiencing a dimunition of erectile quality and occasional failures at least from time to time without the help of erectile drugs. I know for myself, the advent of blood pressure meds at age 56 sent me into a tailspin and made me reach for pharmacuetical help. These days, men do not suffer in silence. In our town, there are at least 30 OB-GYN doctors for women but not one doctor who specializes in male andropause. But the landscape is changing. Bigger cities have doctors just for aging men and the net has pushed this envelope as well.

So again, congratulations to all the guys who report they are doing so well inspite of their ages. I think you are not the norm but the exception. I envy you but I am accepting the aging process as best I can as probably most men pushing sixty are doing. Enjoy it while you can guys.

MrAvg: On the full stomach phenomina, just yesterday I noticed that I was horny in the afternoon. As usual, I had eaten a very light lunch (can of water packed tuna) and had weight trained hard earlier in the day. Wifey didnt cook so we went out where I ate a good dinner. Zilch went my horniness as we settled back into the home routine. It happens. A man in his fifties has a much hornier attitude on an empty stomach or at least a relatively empty stomach. That’s aging.

thinktank, by this do you mean ED drugs or TRT? Are you happy with the results?

When I complained to my doctor he handed me viagra. Later cialis came available and I am on a low dose of cialis, about 10 mg every three days. It gets me up quickly like my younger days. Also, my endocrinologist gave me a 400 mg shot of Testosterone two years ago. I should have never let him do that. You are so correct MrAvg to advise men not to tinker with their hormone levels. Another older guy online advised me that a 400 mg shot of T is stone age medicine. From day 10 to day 25 after that shot I was a teenager. The best thing about that amount of T was the feeling of extreme well-being that we have as younger men believing that life will last forever. Of course, everything about my sexuality was upped. My skin even tingled at my wifes touch.

But the bummer was day 26 on. That amount of T ramped up my estrogen and I was moderately depressed and fatigued big time. I am just now getting my hormonal level back to where it was before that shot. I am not interested in tinkering with my hormones at this time because there are so many things to watch and as I understand it, you have to have pretty much constant blood work to assure that your free T is good, your estrogen is down and your Testosterone is up. Too busy for all that. I prefer to exercise, weight train, work at emotional and physical intimacy with my wife, and make the best of aging. Anyone out there with any advice for me, I will listen. I note that 789 has gone on the T supplementation. I just dont know if I am ready to bite that bullet. I envy you Mravg. You are a blessed man.

Why don’t you try anti-aromatase like 6-oxo or novedex? They are quite popular with bodybuilders these days.

The last 2 mornings I have really been unhappy with my erection quality. This is very unusual for me and really disturbing. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

I am 43 this year and I had a decrease in my late 30’s (only had sex 4-5 times a month) but I had a sleep condition, had surgery for it and 6 months later I am on top of my game again (4-5 times a week again). I think it has to do with health, mental state and then desire. If you do not desire it then it will not happen even if you have good health.

Correct. I have no desire for it, therefore it does not happen.

I’m 46, and I really haven’t seen anything physically going downhill. Thanks to PE, my erections are bigger, and just as hard as they ever were. I get hard, and stay hard for as long as I need. I tested recently and I came three times in about an hour and still got my cock nice and hard to go again.

However, my libido isn’t like it was in my 20s. I’m horny all the time, and I can still pop a woody just looking at a nice ass in a tight dress, but I just have a lot more going on in my head. Between work, and kids, and marriage, and other women, and financial obligations, and everything else, I can be in the midst of high arousal, but suddenly find myself distracted. There’s always several things that I should be doing, even when I’m whacking off or fucking. (Like, I shouldn’t be writing this. I should be sending a client an invoice, or calling someone, or organizing things, or getting ready for the niece’s B-day party tonight, or… there’s something else I’ve forgotten…)

What sexual health?

Ike, you have work to do.

Much of our erectile health as men as we age is a healthy attitude and mindset to occasional lackluster preformance and failure if it happens. The New Male Sexuality by Zilbergeld (1999) has a complete chapter on getting your mind on your side. Zilbergeld is a psychologist and sex therapist.

Mravg: The quicker you can brush off and put out of your mind any glitch that disturbs you, the better you will be in all future experiences. Zilbergeld mentions two guys in his book. First, Bud fumes and relives his disapointment and a dark cloud follows him portending more bad experiences. Art, however, brushes off disapointment and tell himself positively that he is okay and things are just fine. The end result is that Bud is miserable and fails and Art is healthy, happy and potent. Fighting for maximum physical and emotional health is a very real part of being healthy as we as men age.

Goddamn I’m so fucking tired of hearing other guys being where I should be. I turn 41 in a couple of weeks and I might as well be fucking 81. No dissrespect to anyone else, more power to you, consider yourselves the luckiest fucking guys on the planet. But I am sick and tired of having no fucking libido. I have had just about all I can take. Posts like this just keep sticking the knife in a little deeper each time.

5 years ago if you had told me that I would have ended up like this, I would have bet you every fucking cent I had in the bank that I wouldn’t. I could fuck my brains out any time I wanted to just like Ike. I had more fucking wood than the whole state of Oregon. My mind was constantly on pussy.

Sorry to rant like this which is something that I’ve never done. Ike, mvraq, and others with strong libidos, I am the greenest shade of green with envy for you guys. But I just feel like the litle sick kid that has to stay inside and watch out the window while all of the other boys have fun playing baseball or something.

Fuck I’m tired. Now back to your original programming.