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What Is It Like Using Viagra?

Shortly after being launched in 1988 - the famous Viagra (sildenafil), a specific drug to treat impotence, as part of the 152 Congress of Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Association, which took place in 1999 in Washington DC, USA, a debate took place with a group of worldwide experts, to know if this medication could be used to "improve performance", what Americans call improvement.

This led to a heated debate since many colleagues argued that no one could give a medicine to treat erectile dysfunction for a "recreational or frivolous" purpose as some called it. The years have gone through, Viagra became one of the top selling drugs in the world, and now we see many men taking it to improve their performance, the amount of pleasure, even though they are not suffering from any sexual dysfunction.

Today this is still a heated debate among Viagra users who use it to increase the hedonism and eroticism in their loving relationships.

Sometimes sex is seen as work, as an everyday life obligation, rather than seen it as a relation in which two people, enjoy, have fun, take the greatest pleasure and possible bond. There are men who take it as a test, an exam and only look at how rigid their penis gets, how long the erection lasted and how many orgasms the couple had.

The pressure to perform and the goals we set for ourselves lead to high levels of anxiety, fear of not being able to achieve these objectives, such as anxiety tends to block the sexual response, and we enter a vicious circle.

On many occasions men give much more importance to work than to pleasure. It is common to see how men can get to work even the weekend but "who do not have time to read, listen to music, exercise and even less time for eroticism." We call these people addicted to work: "workaholics". These men faced with sexual difficulties can always have the excuse of stress, work problems, lack of time, etc…

Men always wonder what is the right quantity of sexual relations they should have that "must have", because of competition and social pressure. There is no right or wrong answer or special goals to achieve or any need to be part of any kind of statistics. It should be what one wants, when one feels it is the right moment and that is enjoyable for both.

The refractory period is the time that it will take to get a new erection after an orgasm (the needed time is not the same for everyone). This differs from women who may have multiple orgasms. Almost all the young men have one or two orgasms per encounter, often being satisfied with the first, and while this is true there are some situations where some men can have more, this is not criteria to measure normality or abnormality.

Remember that sexual relations are not merely just orgasms but also the time before (games, caresses, kisses, variations in the position), either with or without penetration. We often see men who say "yes, a little game is okay, but sex without penetration what for?" Perhaps it would be great to try new things, and this is an advise to men with or without sexual problems: erotic games without the imperative, unpostponable penetration.

Some physicians think that if someone needs to take medication to improve their erections is "because something was missing them," but the truth is that many want to take Viagra (sildenafil) only to achieve greater enjoyment and duration in their love encounters, to achieve more rigid and faster erections, in order to have more erections in their sexual encounters, to bring greater satisfaction to their partners.

But if someone wants to take medicine to improve their quality of life, who could question it? If this person has been, at least controlled once by a doctor, well informed regarding the available dosages and its proper use, Viagra (sildenafil) is an effective solution to enjoy love and sex, to which now Cialis (tadalafil) and Levitra (vardenafil) have been added now.

Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is a drug that changed the history of Pharmacology, Sexology and Medicine. Knowing the intimate mechanism of an erection and the specific action of Viagra (sildenafil) on men (who should not neglect other essential factors of eroticism) will enjoy a pleasurable and satisfying sex life.