Whether your sex partner is male or female, when one or the other has difficulty with a firm erection, satisfying sex can be frustrating, difficult, and downright impossible. I thought that as long as I had a strong desire for sexual contact, that urge in itself would cause my penis to come alive and stand up. WRONG!
Some twenty years ago while on a relaxing vacation in Canada, I became more than extremely depressed when I could not maintain an erection strong enough for penetration. I felt unsexy, frustrated, unmanly, impotent. I knew nothing about ED (Erectile Dysfunctio
n).
Years later while carrying a sheet of plasterboard, the chest pains I’d been suffering for many weeks urged me to see my doctor. Within a few days, an emergency quintuple heart bypass spared my life.
Now I know that clogged blood vessels are one of the principles of ED. And I have the greatest respect for Viagra, because it has spared my sexual life and my masculine ego by compensating for the effects of clogged blood vessels. Since that time, I’ve often wondered what makes the diamond-shaped blue pill work. It would seem that any drug that is organ specific must be a complicated affair. To satisfy my curiosity, I did a bit of research.
The diagram and some info that follows came from "How Viagra Works" by Marshall Brain, 08 November 2004.
A quick glance at the diagram shows vessels in any penis that can become clogged for a variety of reasons. In my case, high cholesterol, probably salt deposits, etc. This diagram clearly shows veins and arteries, so what happens when I swallow Viagra?
1. First, as the tablet dissolves, the drug sildenafil citrate circulates throughout my entire body including my penis.
2. Thankfully, it then attaches itself to a specific penis enzyme (PDE5) and disables it.
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