This is pretty cool - loosing the use of your penis is the equivilent of loosing it completly (at least in my mind), so one day having the use of it fully without the aid of drugs is like a miracle. I think that’s pretty fucking cool.
Interesting. I’m not sure how much I can really explain. Speculate is more like it. I don’t know why men have erectile dysfunctions after having their prostates removed but if its related to how they can’t get it up for a while thanks to the surgery which then has lasting effects, it might have something with muscle atrophy or nerve inactivation due to lack of use. Viagra and the rest would then potentially reverse this process (and I would expect it’d have to happen within a certain time frame, but maybe not) Again, I’m just speculating from what these guys are saying.
An interesting comparison is that you can get paraplegics to “walk” by just getting 'em through the motions, so maybe it has something to do with a similar neural pathway of getting something activated to get the whole process kickstarted.
The function of the prostate is to produce that white liquid that contains the spermatozoids and ‘throw’ this liquid into the urectra. Maybe the mecanism that takes the semen from the prostate to the urectra plays a role in sexual desire since the very goal of sex is, from the viewpoint of the brain, ejaculating (I’m not getting into why it is not very picky as to the place where it’ll ejaculate).
They don’t have a prostate anymore. Though what Xelo says is true as it happens with steroids (your body stops making its own natural steroids, which causes problems), its different with viagra, I think. You’re not affecting something you already make and the study mentions that it works on its own without viagra after a while.
For a second I was afraid it was giving some men permanent erections. That’s a real medical condition too, by the way. Fortunately that wasn’t the case.