If you are only interested in short-term relief, all you will want is the pills to “cure” the problem. In the majority of cases, this will produce the desired results, but time is not on your side. Even if you do go see a doctor, you’re motivated to keep costs to a minimum so, apart from the usual tests for heart disease and diabetes, you will want to move quickly on to the pills. There’s nothing absolutely wrong about this approach. After all, the pills will usually give you a solution to the problem. But a failure to really understand the causes can lead to later problems that will not be solved by the pills.

The difficulty is that men who only look for the pills or for something to stimulate their desire, are refusing the reassess themselves and their values. For example, as men age, continuing to drink large quantities of alcohol can reinforce the desire for sex but actually limit performance. Similarly, continuing to smoke accelerates the spread of artherosclerosis and will negate the benefit from the pills sooner rather than later. Some street drugs and others available on prescription may be limiting desire or lowering sexual responsiveness. All these can be “cured” by reducing the intake of the “drugs”.  Read more...