Pelvic floor and erections

[betasatyr]

Hi everyone,

This forum is awesome and so important to have a place to talk about Penis health without feeling shame.

I was having a lot of problems on holding the urine. I often got the urgency to urinate that escalates quite fast. Like from minute 1 I'd get the feeling that I need to pee but, 2-3 minutes later this feeling becomes the most urgent thing to do.

And I've always suffered from a kind of ED (mostly on sex situations). I'm on psychotherapy also to reduce the general stress, started to exercise at the gym for 6 months now, doing meditation.

So, now I'm getting able to hold the urine for a little more than my usual (not always) and the erections are getting better, I guess but still, in matter of seconds without touching I would loose most of the firmness.

So I have some anatomical questions:

do I need to contract the pelvic floor for the entire erection?

do I need to push, somehow and when (even outside sex/erection scenario) the pelvic floor?

I've read somewhere that, if your pelvic is tight, kegel exercises are not indicated but, how can I understand if my pelvic is tight, loose or normal? Its hard for me because, well, I guess I never had a reference.

Thanks so much,

Best regards from Italy

[Busha]

Actually anything regards sex or erection is totally dependents on a men's emotion if you're physically strong. Sometimes you may strong physically but pretty shy, nervous when you're with your girl or for other reason. Since you did mentioned about your mental health, I guess your problem might related to your emotions the most rather physically. Stress is a major men to lose erection. Reference for the correlation between stress and male erection:

mayoclinic.org/diseases-con....

[xsevenx]

You should not have to tense your pelvic floor to maintain an erection. Have you discussed your symptoms with a physiotherapist? Might be the place to start.

[betasatyr in reply to xsevenx]

Thanks xsevenx, strangely I feel like that's a good idea. I have no idea how to use that muscle. But yeah Busha, there's a psychological issue but it's like I feel there's something not fitting right. Thanks!