Dear Dr Richards I am in my mid 30’s and have been suffering from some symptoms that have caused me much stress for over 12 years, possibly longer. Flaccid penis has almost no feeling/shrunken/large vein running down the top of shaft. Very rarely wake up with an erection. Can have sex but only once and […]
Articles Tagged: low libido
PMO Addiction, Sexual Exhaustion and Post-Orgasmic Symptoms
Hi, Please help me. Im going to keep this short as possible. I came across PMO when I was 15 and have been doing it until now, I’m 21. Its something which I am ashamed of and always felt guilty about although it never used to give me any issues and I always used to […]
Connection between stress, weak erections, and sexual exhaustion
Good Afternoon, kind sir. Could you be kind enough and expand a bit on the correlation between stress in your life and weak erections + sexual exhaustion? I myself have noticed a very direct link since I was on a vacation a couple of weeks ago and while there I had what I consider to […]
Age 52, ED and frequent masturbation
First off, thank you Dr. Richards for providing your services so freely. I’m 52, married, not over weight. I am a testicular cancer survivor from 2002. I’m on TRT with low cortisol output throughout the day. My sexlife with my wife is basically zero since she hit menopause and my preoccupation with pornography. I’ve tried […]
Injury Questions – Injured Penis
Thank you for this site, it has some useful info. About 12 months ago I made the mistake of trying those jelqing exercises. I did them for a few weeks and noticed some lack of sensitivity in the penis but nothing major. Then one night I decided to masturbate vigorously using the pillow sheets as […]
Premature Ejaculation, Ear Buzzing, Stress, Lack of Sleep, Headaches, Low libido
I’m 28 and have a long history of severe overmasturbation (sometimes up to 10 times a day) since my early teen years. I got married early at 21 while still in the university. At first everything was fine and I had healthy marriage. My wife sometimes used to say she felt I was shooting inside […]
Low sex drive and varying testosterone levels
Hi, I am a 26 yr old male and I just wanted to get your opinion as to if you think i may have sexual exhaustion. My symptoms are low sex drive, weak and infrequent erections, no morning erection, and varying testosterone levels (2 failed tests and 3 passing, the highest 600). I began to […]
Low libido, premature ejaculation and anxiety
Doctor I would like to thank you for all your extensive work! I started masturbating very early when Iwas 8 and experienced horrible anxiety and premature ejaculation at my 20ties of which I never fully recovered.I must say that this combination is a psych-killer because I’m anxious to make sex with a woman because I’m […]
SSRIs and Sexual Behavior
Dear Dr. Richards, I am 54 and I have a BSc in Biochemistry and so I am able to ingest most of what is written within these explanations of various sexual problems. I am on SSRIs and have been for years now and of course, I suffer somewhat from a depressed libido as expected but […]
17 and suffering from Sexual Exhaustion
Dr. Richards, I’m definitely suffering from sexual exhaustion due to overmasturbation. I am currently 17 and I started masturbating when I was 12, sometimes daily, and sometimes multiple times per day. The symptoms I’ve noticed are: mild headaches after ejaculation, tiredness, half inch receding of the hairline, less libido, lower back pains, small semen volume, […]
Sexual Exhaustion & Hard Flaccid Penis
I been masturbating since teens but I really went overboard in my 22 to 24 range I’m 25 now and recently I had a experience with a female I couldn’t get a erection, I figured it was performance anxiety since I didn’t have sex in a few years just over masturbation. so I figured I […]
Sexual Dysfunction caused by depression and anti-depressants
Over one year ago i had gone through a very tough and stressful time that was brought about because of a cancer scare, and not having health insurance. During this time i had gone into a deep depression/stress and anxiety which started to bring on serious physical symptoms, impacting my sexual function greatly. I had […]
Sexual Exhaustion Symptoms
Dear Dr Richard The symptoms that you describe in your sexual exhaustion article are identical to many of the symptoms I have felt for the last 13 years, I am now 33. I have severe chronic pain in my joints and soft tissue, I have low libido and suffer from sexual exhaustion after sex, fatigue, […]
Cannot maintain erection/no libido from masturbation/porn addiction
Hey dr, I just got my blood work back, wondering what you think about it. My problems are I cannot maintain my erection without stimulation for longer than 5 sec’s, No libido, sometimes problems getting an erection. I masturbated heavily for 11 yrs with an escalating porn addiction. TSH 2.5 first test, 2.7 second test […]
Hard Flaccid
Hey Dr. Richards, same kinda thing going on as previous posts. I’m 17 for one and this freaks me out a lot! This hard flaccid thing started in December 2009, I have no idea how, possible form working out wrong or masturbating to roughly? I also go circumcised 3 weeks ago, which had no affect […]