In september 2023 I got of the hub and stopped beating it. (Virgin at the time) Everything was working fine back then. In the following year I finally started having my first sexual encounters at age 20. However there is 1 little problem. I cant get my dick up. I thought it was because of anxiety or excitement but after 3-4 times that wasnt really the case and Im still left with the same problem. Im now 21, very active, clean diet, good sleep and everything but I cant figure out how to make my dick work again. What should I do?
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universitythrowaway 1mo ago
Search up what hard flaccid is and see if your symptoms are the same
whytehorse2021 1mo ago
Tell a Dr. They will check your testosterone.
First-light 1mo ago
If you can get it up to wank, you are physically able to get it up to bang. It might still be the interaction of having to fit in sex around someone else that can be a bit of a thing at first.
If you can get it up to wank, wake up with morning erections or get hard when you see hot women or sex scenes on TV, then its still mental not physical. Just try taking a dick pill next time you go to bang, then half a pill the time after, aiming to not use it as soon as possible. This will make it practically impossible for you to get stage fright. The availability of dick pills varies by local laws but in most places you can just buy them or get an on line doctor to prescribe them. The cialis type is probably preferable to the viagra type as it gives you a bigger window of opportunity in case plans alter.
If you are not waking up with morning erections and can't get it up to wank even with porn, then I would get straight to a doctor because there is a real medical problem if this is happening in a healthy active 20 year old man and there is no point wasting time with home remedies. At 20 you want to get it fixed and look forward to decades of good trouble free sex, not be finding work arounds or relying on pills long term.
Just checking, hopefully at 20 you haven't been big into anabolics? If you have, then rethink things, you have clearly really over done it but there are well publicised strategies for getting things going again and doctors who specialise in such things.
Suitable-Error7286 1mo ago
Its kind of mixed. Before nofap I would get hard just looking at girls asses in school but now it does take some thinking and or nsfw material. I do however not get morning wood at all so Im not sure if I just have to get used to having a hard dick again because I went for weeks and even months completly soft at the start of this when I wasnt getting any action.
First-light 1mo ago
It does sound like a mixed picture. Since you can get hard, maybe explore if pills give a quick fix that gets you through the mental block of sex and then it all goes back to normal but if normal service does not resume shortly, I would see a doctor. Just don't accept an easy fix prescription for pills. Its easy for doctors to just give pills for anything and get the patient gone. If things are not working properly in that department, its a sign that there is a bigger problem and at 20, you really deserve to have it sorted or it may impact other areas of health as time passes.
The brain body connection is amazing and I would not put it past you having been sufficiently repulsed by masturbating to have killed your libido but I also do wonder if it would have been possible to totally quit masturbating if there were not a bit of a shortage in a physical department. I used to try sometimes when younger but always found myself relapsing after getting an erection that would not let me sleep. Now I think I could probably quit sex and masturbation but my libido has fallen with age. Its complicated and I would keep looking.
Reading what you have said below; rubbers can be a massive turn off. Try without the rubber (unless its a whore or seriously skanky woman of course). If she has seen there is a problem with rubbers and you keep your promise to pull out, most girls will be OK with that. She wants to do it too and must be frustrated by the problem too.
lambOfGod 1mo ago
You have to make sex a somewhat of a routine in your life. If you are too anxious to initiate with a real girl and fuck her, start with an escort first to get your wheels going.
Workout daily (don't overtrain or go heavy every day) and abstain from touching your dick (apart from hygiene routine, gotta mention 'cause of autists here) for 1-2 weeks and get multivitamins. Once you fuck and escort to get you on training wheels, you will confirm to yourself that you CAN FUCK.
Then, you can go forth and conquer. Life can be easy, don't make your life a living hell by enslaving yourself to your doubt and wrong mindset.
You can also try Tadalafil, small doses daily for a bit. Comes branded as Cialis. There are other medicines that have Tadalafil, branded differently. Do your own research on this.
But the most important thing is: Are the girls you fuck hot? For you? That might be the issue
Suitable-Error7286 1mo ago
What about overtraining? I play Basketball at a somewhat high level so I workout 2x per day on average. I get enough calories and sleep but could that still be the problem? Also looking back my standards for hookup candidates did actually take a big hit in recent times but I had the same issues with "conventionally" hot girls so Im not so sure about that one.
mattyanon Admin 1mo ago
what is "the hub" ?
lambOfGod 1mo ago
pornhub and all related sites
mattyanon Admin 1mo ago
ah, thx
mattyanon Admin 1mo ago
As others have implied: you need to be more clear about where the problem lies. Are you hard sometimes or never? Are you with women you're attracted to? Any history of drug use or abuse?
Suitable-Error7286 1mo ago
Well I have defenetly a few strong erections here and there. Just a lot less than I used to have because I suppressed my urges for over a year. I dont do drugs not even alcohol. Attractiveness might contribute a little bit. To describe what happened again today: talking/ getting comfortable, escalation, dick gets sucked at which point its hard but after putting on the rubber and her hopping on top its soft again.
mattyanon Admin 1mo ago
Ok, a few suggestions/pointers:
Yes, you may have gone too far with the urge suppressing. Never tried it but it sounds bad.
Other than that, it sounds like it's not a mental or a porn thing as others have suggested.
Time to get things checked out by a doctor or other online service...... get your T levels tested (why speculate when you can get concrete results measured), maybe HGH, things like that. How's your general energy levels?
Suitable-Error7286 1mo ago
Yes I will do a blood test asap. In terms of energy levels I have enough to do sports up to 3 times per day (2x on average) and I rarely feel tired.
aweawea_ 1mo ago
This is porn/masturbation related first and foremost imo and in 2 different ways. I've looked back at my own experience and i think i have a really good picture of exactly what is going on. Nofap communities have a good idea of whats going on but i think i've pinpointed more precisely the mechanism of this and as such also found the fastest way to fix this with what i am going to share, so you can get back your normal function as fast as possible.
First to share that i've also experienced it. I've definitely been with a girl i've been attracted to and completely unable to get hard when we are both naked. And a few weeks prior to that i could get painfully hard just thinking about her. And you know what was the difference between those instances?
I was getting painfully hard just thinking about her about a month into no porn/masturbation.
And what was the difference when i was with her and unable to get hard? I masturbated to porn a few times the week prior.
Now i am not saying masturbating a few times the prior week to having sex will make every man unable to get hard when with a woman.
But a man that has conditioned himself most strongly sexualy TO being alone and masturbating with his hand and with porn/nsfw content? Well that man has conditioned himself to something very different to sex. So when sex comes around, his body is just not responding. The body wants what it wants and that is the thing you've given it for YEARS prior. So even if you get a nice nofap streak going, the moment you do a few fap/porn sessions you wake up your strongest sexual neural pathway in your brain, which is the lone masturbation/porn one.
Porn/nsfw content affects what you get aroused by, i.e. the screen when you are alone and looking at images/videos of naked women engaged in certain behaviour. Likely also while sitting/laying and touching yourself.
Just quitting porn forever long term (and you should) should fix your ability to initialy get your erection when with a girl but then your ability to HOLD the erection and able to fuck IS A SEPARATE THING. And this is what i think most nofappers are missing.
To not lose your erection comes from having your brain wired to enjoy that type of physical stimulation/situation but currently your brain is wired to pump blood into your penis when its getting stimulated by your own hand motions when you are alone, likely when you are sitting or lying and looking at nsfw content. It is the same thing as death grip but you can get that even if you are not "gripping your dick very hard".
My advice is: Completely quit porn and any type of masturbation/penis touching for 2 weeks (apart from cleaning ofc). 2 weeks should be enough. Forget the 90 days bullshit. Its not realistic anyways.
This will probably let you get an erection when alone with a woman, probably even before you guys start undressing yourself but definitely when you get naked. But then you are likely to still experience losing your erection (or delayed ejaculation) when you get to penis in vagina sex because your brain is wired to getting stroked and more specifically BY YOUR OWN HAND.
But just going and going with nofap and waiting for all of this to reverse by itself takes too long (thats why nofap communities preach the 90 days but that is too long).
Now, of course, if you can find a willing partner who will be understanding and help you with your re-wiring to fucking, that can work, but its not terribly reliable.
What i did, and if you google reversing death grip, other people do/did, is buy a fleshlight (yes i am serious) and start fucking that with lube every day for a few week(s). Even 1 might be enought.
(read some reviews and get the one that is most similar to a vagina feel, cuz some of them are unrealisticaly tight, theres different "models" with different "insides".)
The key thing here is DO NOT hold the fleshlight with your hand AT ALL when you are doing this. Either pin it down or get it stuck somewhere and fuck it like you'd fuck a pussy and try to finish that way and again NEVER HOLD the fleshlight with your HAND as that will still reinforce your "own hand motion stimulationg own dick" naural pathway.
You will notice that if you just hold the fleshlight you immediately feel more pleasure, and especially if its your hand moving the fleshlight instead of you fucking the fleshlight its WAY easier to cum.
Why? Because of everything i just explained, thats what you've conditioned yourself to. To your own hand moving up and down on your dick and thats what gets you off AND NOTHING ELSE can get you off anywhere as easily.
So you must stop doing that completely and instead start doing WHAT YOU SHOULD BE DOING, which is the fucking.
After just a like a week or 2 (depending) of fucking the fleshlight (and don't forget lube) you will be able to maintain your erection fucking the thing and you can move on to sex.
I suggest hiring an escort once after that, as its (at least for me), less performance anxiety inducing so you are eliminating that possible cause and making sure that at least physicaly/brain wiring wise you are good to go.
So next time you are with a girl, you will be pretty confident everything will be fine and even if something happens AT THAT POINT, its probably just some mental thing which you can also simply get over with more attempts/experience with real willing partners.
One last thing is. You must completely stay away from cumming by your own hand even if with a partner. What you are likely to experience is that even if you CAN hold your erection, you are unable to finish by just penetration initially (Delayed Ejaculation basically). You MUST resist the temptation of your or your partner's desire to find a way to finish in any way possible which will probably just involve your hand...again that will reinforce the wrong pathway and you will likely get limp dick again on your next sex session. This all might mean that you will basically also be practicing semen retention since you simply might be unable to finish from fucking. Don't try to force it. It will come eventualy. Semen Retention is even yet another thing that will speed up your recovery and restart your libido anyways.
I am not saying this will have to be this way for the rest of your life BUT you must stop getting your dick jerked and build up that brain wiring for fucking for a decent while.
As far as getting sponatenous erections/morning wood, that will improve over time as well the longer and longer you stay away from porn and hand masturbation but don't get too fixated on that. Just get to the point where you can hold your erection fucking a girl and over time you'll build your confidence in your tool working and so your frequency of morning wood/spontaneous erections will be irrelevant.
Hope that helps.
EDIT: One last thing, also probably should avoid cowgirl positions for now and instead be on top and fuck the girl, its def easier to lose your erection when shes on top imo, especialy in the still shaky erections period, eventualy you will get wired to real sex enough to where any position will work for you but make sure you can get it working in the more basic positions first ;).
Suitable-Error7286 1mo ago
Im not sure you completly understood my situation. I havent watched porn or jerked my dick by myself in over 1 year. And back when I did I never had a problem getting hard at all. But now I do. Also I can now last as long as I want.
aweawea_ 1mo ago
Yeah, thats a bit unusual, well, anyways, i have had the problem as i mentioned of being unable to get hard and it was always when not on a good streak away from porn/masturbation. How long it lasts after stopping sometimes varied but it always came back eventualy withing weeks pretty much.
But you are saying you have a problem getting hard but also can..last as long as you want ? you mean if you do manage to get it up?
Either way, out of all the random non drug things i've heard some people suggests as afrodisiacs over the years, the best one for me has been eating a ton of eggs (i always boil em). And i mean like eating like 10 eggs at once and i really don't think its placebo, i almost always notice an increase in ease of getting erection and erection strength if i do eat that many eggs that day.
Apart from that, i think strength training and specificaly heavy leg training also helps in that department. But thats just my anecdote.
aweawea_ 1mo ago
Anyways, since you mentioned what happened most recently, maybe you weren't relaxed enough and with her hopping on top maybe that position is just not your thing?
Try being more leading and dominant and active and being on top.
When you are the one doing something to her, it should excite you more.
Talk dirty/sexy things, tell her what to do, telling her the things you like about her body, that she makes you feel good, saying her name, giving her directions and what she does good and to do more of that, what you might want her to do differently, letting out your manly groans, use your hands and mouth, feeling totally free to express or do everything you want, if there is anything you have even an inclination of wanting to do or express but not doing it is basically you being in your head and killing off your arousal.
actually doing all of those things should trigger more arousal the moment you do them and when you notice each of those actions excites you more and makse you harder, you should want to do them even more and instead of lingering around you just keep doing more and more, you kinda go off of your natural animalistic urges like a chain reaction (hopefully that makes sense?)
and when you get to putting it inside her and pinning her down and you nailing her maybe will be the proper stimulation/situation for you and you won't go limp...idk, just some suggestions.
Suitable-Error7286 1mo ago
Thx for the advice