What is normal erection function?

It depends. If your into the person you are having sex with it should be easy to maintain an erection regularly. Because I was/am a sex addict, I would have sex with people I was not into, and I can say it was not always easy to keep it going.

 

I've never suffered ED so maybe I can give you a good answer. It's a complicated term but I'll try my best to describe what I think it is.

For me, normal erectile function is that when I am turned on my penis won't go flaccid until I either have an orgasm or decide to focus on something that has no sexual stimulation involved. This means nothing visual, audible, physical et cetera.

It also means that when my partner is initiating sex, I get an erection with zero effort on my own part (that is, I do not have to touch myself to get or maintain an erection). So in short, I am able to get and maintain an erection without any physical help from myself or anyone else, what-so-ever.

When it comes to sex (either intercourse or oral), I am able to maintain an erection until as I said earlier, I either have an orgasm or the stimulation process stops. But unless I do either of those things, my erection does not decline at all. If the stimulation process stops, the erection slowly starts to decrease but does not do so immediately.

As always, the quality (size, strength and duration) of an erection depends on a lot of things. The main ones being:

1. Quality of stimulation (emotional, physical, visual et cetera)
2. Body health and circulation
3. Comfort (both emotional and physical)

Hope this helps.

 

As I said the quality of your erection depends on the quality of the connection you have to what-ever is stimulating you. In my case, the highest quality stimulant is always my partner.

I don't think it's a healthy or smart idea to 'worry' then either. If you can't get an erection with the person that you want to have sex with, it's because you haven't spend the necessary time getting comfortable and you are trying to rush things. You can't bake a cake without breaking a few eggs, as the saying goes. You need to not see 'sex' as the goal here and instead just focus on having a good time together. When you stop viewing sex as the thing that's important and at the top of the pyramid your body has a chance to get turned on naturally without you adding any confusing signals/hormones into the mix. Worrying will just make things worse and with worrying, you suffer twice.

Here are your answers in order:

1. Yes you may
2. Define "a lot". I'm not trying to be complicated but what some think is 'a lot' others do not. I've had over 100 sexual partners. As for the amount of times I've had sex? I couldn't reliably count them. Maybe that answers your question.
3. I watched porn from the age 17 reliably, (at 16 I wasn't much interested in it). At 18 I was watching it and doing PMO whenever I felt like it and it wasn't having an identifiable negative affect on my life. Even when I had sex, I still watched porn when I was bored or when I wanted to learn more about what kinds of sex were possible. The difference though is that the porn I watched was pretty old school. I'm not talking about 80s but early to mid 90s porn, so a lot more authentic. I watched almost 99% amateur stuff and not much else. None of this big studio porn that's all the same and very, very fake and detached from reality. So the porn I was watching was mostly two people passionately having sex which I don't think is at all as harmful as the mainstream porn we have these days. Though I will say that I don't condone or recommend watching either (any) types.
4. My PMO wasn't out of control for at least the first 10 years of me watching porn. It was only when my life got very stressful because of university that I started MO very badly. Porn became something I was less and less interested in as I had more sexual partners and the quality of the sex I was having started to become infinitely better than anything I could find in porn. The quality of my orgasms also got so much higher than what I could do on my own that I stopped M for a while also because I'm in a healthy relationship. Now I don't do it because I just don't like the thought of missing out on being able to have more fulfilling sex if I have already had an orgasm.
5. Now I don't do PM. I still do O with my partner whenever we have sex which is quite regularly. It's completely different for me than porn. Honestly porn for me is so boring and pointless that I haven't enjoyed any mainstream porn for years and the porn I used to enjoy is basically impossible to find these days. As for masturbation. I don't bother with it either because I have a partner. So my real 'training' or reason for NoFap is just to make sure that my sole method of orgasm is from my partner and the great fun we have.

I definitely think there is a reason for that sure. I was brought up to not objectify women at all. I was taught to respect them and at an early age I probably identified the difference between two people having passionate loving sex and fun, and me watching them enjoy themselves. I never assigned a low level of 'value' to anyone who made or stared in porn. I've always treated people, like people. The difference is that my enjoyment of finding my own better sources of sexual stimulation has always been with a physical partner so anything else like P or M just becomes a waste of time and ultimately an obstacle from me enjoying being intimate with my partner.

In addition to all of this, even though I am under stress from studying and other areas in my life. I am physically very healthy and fit and I eat a very healthy diet and take expensive multi-vitamin supplements which definitely increase the quality of my erections and orgasms as well as my stamina (energy) and it lowers my recovery time. So when I get time to concentrate on just being with my partner and I, my body is naturally up to the challenge.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

 

Was addicted to PMO for 9 years, never had PIED, could always get it up very quickly, I only had issues after PMO'ing 5 times or something like that. Still don't have issues getting erect. To be honest I would love it If my dick didn't work for the duration of my reboot because I'm not getting any pussy. I'm sure plenty would love to be in my position though, and it could be worse.