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The anatomy of an erection. PDF Print E-mail
Written by David Delaney   
Wednesday, 18 February 2009 15:02

Yes, erections provide calmly get fodder for movies. Yes, erections have more nicknames than superstar athletes. And yes, it's not exactly a word that most of us use at the dinner table. ["Pass the corn, dear. How was your day today? Feeling pretty good about the strength of your erections?"]. But when it comes to aging, few things rival sexual dissatisfaction - and the sexual dysfunction that can cause it - as the area that makes a person's quality of life plummet faster than the deflated balloon.

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Thanks to Viagra and her relatives, which increase the duration of the effect of no, erectile dysfunction is no longer and in the closet, never to be talked about disorder [didn't know she was a she, did you?]. Clinically defined as the consistent inability to attain an erection sufficient for sexual activity, erectile dysfunction [ED] hits about 50% of men ages 40 to 70 and 70% of men older than 70. Suffice it to say that most aging men are going to have at least some experience with losing a little pulp in their juice. We should also note that getting older isn't all bad when it comes to erection issues, since it does mean for most men that it takes a little longer to ejaculate.

As you might've guessed, a lot of research has been done on what causes ED, and, as is the case with cancer, heart disease, and so many other conditions, there isn't one single factor to blame. Rather, many things can cause the erectile rocket boosters, not to fire - including hormone problems, which we'll discuss later in this chapter, trauma to the area [like that caused by poor fitting bicycle seats, which block off blood supply to the penis], alcohol, some prescription drugs, and obesity. But the biggest cause of erectile problems is fleeting levels of the major ager nitric oxide due to vascular disease. The way blood flows through out your body [which is largely determined by the hardening of your arteries] determines your body's ability to maintain and sustain an erection. In fact, erectile disorders are actually precursors of heart problems, so if you or your partner is experiencing erectile problems, it's important to seek treatment, not just to improve what happens when you're lying down in bed but also to make sure that the next time you're lying down isn't on a surgeon's table.



Let's clear up the first misconception about erections: it's not testosterone that's the main driver of erection, though it does play a role, as will address in a moment. The reality is that erections happen because of many things going on in the body at once. The major way that the penis gets hard isn't through X-rated Internet sites, it's to receptors on the cells lining our arteries that stimulated chain reaction that ultimately relaxes blood vessels that go to the penis. That reaction is mediated by nitric oxide, that short-lived gas floating around in your body. The aging link? No. Is usually made by the endotholial cells that line, all of our arteries. As soon as even a small amount of hardening of the walls starts with the creation of mild plaque, levels of no plummet, so the vessel cannot dilate normally when you need extra blood, as when running for the bus or rummaging around in bed. During stimulation [no matter whether it's physical or mental, lights on or off, with whipped cream or without, the muscles around the arteries in the penis relax.

That relaxation happened so that blood can be absorbed by a sponge the structure at the top of the penis called the corpus canervosum. After the blood rushes in like a tailback breaking for the end zone, the veins in the penis clamped down to keep the blood trapped in the penis. And voilà! We've got left off, Houston.

If those arteries are inflamed and/or clogged, then you don't have proper blood flow. And that means you don't have enough nitric oxide to open up your arteries, so you can't get an erection because you can't get blood into your penis. Plus, without an engorged penis, the veins that drain the blood don't kink off, so whatever meager blood enters the organ quickly spills back out. That's why erectile problems, for the most part, aren't manhood problems or mental problems or "you don't do it for me anymore, honey" problems. Their plumbing problems that require you not only to be turned on to have the right biological faucets turned on as well.

 
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