Erection difficulties are sometimes referred to as 'erectile dysfunction' or 'impotence'. They refer to any difficulties with getting or keeping erections or staying hard.
Most people with a penis will experience occasional difficulty getting or keeping an erection at some point in their lives. There are a range of physical and psychological factors that can cause or contribute to erection difficulties.
This programme includes information about what can contribute to and cause difficulties with erections. It can help you understand how difficulties may have developed and are being maintained. It also explains practical sex therapy exercises that can help improve these difficulties.
What this programme includes
Stage 1 - Assessment
- Questions about you, your health and wellbeing, and your sexual difficulties
- A medical letter to download
Stage 2 – Psychoeducation
- What can cause erection difficulties?
- How erections work
- Worrying thoughts
- Conditions for good sex
- Other contributing factors
- Review
Stage 3 - Exercises to complete alone
- Strengthening your pelvic floor muscles
- Mindfulness
- Pleasuring your penis while it’s soft
- Masturbating with focus
- Losing and gaining erections
- Shaping the losing and gaining exercise
- Masturbation with fantasy sex and troubleshooting
- Review
Stage 4 - Exercises you can do with a partner (if relevant for you)
- Working together
- Making an agreement together
- Getting reacquainted
- Partner playing with your penis when it's soft
- Partner playing with your penis when it's hard
- Losing and gaining erections with your partner
- Gradual penetration
- Penetration with movement
- Review
Stage 5 – Reflection and evaluation
- Reflection –what has been helpful and what to take forward
- Evaluation of your progress
- What next?