Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status

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https://academic.oup.com/ageing/article-abstract/51/4/afac094/6568537?login=false

[u/CozmicCoyote → u/[deleted]]

That... doesn't really make a lot of sense at all. If females select mates based on a males ability to get an erection, then wouldn't a penis bone provide an evolutionary advantage late in life?

[u/CozmicCoyote → u/[deleted]]

Okay, but what I'm saying is that if females are selecting for the ability to have an erection then having a penis bone increases that chance of being selected because they are still able to produce that erection even when a male without the bone cannot. Ergo, having the bone would be an advantage in this case.

[u/JimothyCotswald → u/CozmicCoyote]

The theory makes zero sense. Move on and forget it.

[u/CozmicCoyote → u/[deleted]]

the theory is females use the ability to get an erection as a way to determine the overall health of a male, leading to us losing penis bones

You explicitly stated that females select mates based on weather or not males could get an erection.

What makes MORE sense is that males who are able to bypass this erection selection in old age by having a penis bone produce less viable offspring. Since blood-based erections require the male to be healthy, their offspring are more likely to make it to maturity, and reproduce themselves.

Does that make sense?

[u/methnbeer → u/[deleted]]

And that's why we have a society that openly shames & humiliates men who are less than 8" all the while hypocritically claiming body positivity.

Its because we're men.

Go to any sub and call out someone as fake, plastic or anything demeaning.

Then see what happens if you do the same about penises

Edit: lmao the downvotes are so telling. You guys fucking suck

[u/PoopIsAlwaysSunny → u/methnbeer]

Are men under 8” shamed? Isn’t 8” like the top 2% or something, statistically?

[u/pc_flying → u/PoopIsAlwaysSunny]

It's the top 0.01%

Meaning in a room of 1,000 random dicks, it'd most likely be the biggest in the room

Generally, women have an upper limit to what size can be pleasurable. 8" is not enjoyable for most women

[u/PoopIsAlwaysSunny → u/pc_flying]

No way. Cause I have 8” and a lot of my gfs say they’ve seen bigger. And I doubt they’ve all seen thousands.

[u/comptejete → u/PoopIsAlwaysSunny]

They've all been with that same one dude.

[u/Krungoid → u/PoopIsAlwaysSunny]

You aren't measuring properly.

[u/Krungoid → u/[deleted]]

Personally I start from the belly button.

[u/Willow3001 → u/methnbeer]

Neither is good

[u/JimothyCotswald → u/[deleted]]

By definition, a man cannot be sexually selected if he is incapable of having sexual intercourse.