How old were you when you realized that getting erections was not something that was going to be automatic for you?

It all kind of started, you know, early 20s, so I would have been probably about 22, 23 kind of struggling with that problem.

This is Brandon. He's 27, lives in Toronto.

And it was around the time that he came out as gay, that he realized he had trouble getting

and maintaining erections.

I found myself very much avoiding sex, whether it would be leaving a date early so that

wasn't a possibility or making sure that we

were going out somewhere so that we weren't coming back with that daunting expectation of,

oh, are we, aren't we going to go into the bedroom and what is that going to look like?

And am I going to, you know, be unable to get hard and to perform sexually.

And I think at that point, I realized to myself that you need to do something here.

So Brandon talked to his doctor about it, and his doctor prescribed him Viagra.

I found out that erectile drugs were very much a roll of the dice.

So for me, it was, you might be able to get an erection and hold one, or you might not.

And there's no way of knowing.

Do you feel sort of like lied to by erectile dysfunction drugs about what kind

of fix they offer? Yeah. Actually, initially I did. You watch, you watch commercials all the time

for Viagra and see all these happy guys doing all these activities. That was not my experience.

You know, I didn't find myself riding a ski-do through the lake.

Or mountain biking in the forest.

No.

No.

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