Permanent Retrograde

Permanent Retrograde

We Broke Sex and Just Kept Going: 1 of 4 Young Men Have Erectile Dysfunction

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Kelly Oxford
Nov 13, 2025
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A friend called last month having a full meltdown.

Twenty-eight years old, new relationship and couldn’t get hard without a prescription. The panic wasn’t about the dick. The panic was logistics.

What happens when the pharmacy is out of pills?

This is where we ended up.

Bonertown Population Zero.

And this is not stress.

This is a plague.

In 2007, 8 out of 100 guys in their twenties had erectile dysfunction.

Now it’s 1 out of 4.

Reporting it..

A little over a decade ago these were the statistics of senior dicks, not the juniors.

This is a full fucking surrender. A quarter of young men are walking around with a neurological traffic jam in their pants.

But the answer isn’t a pill, right? It’s likely in the conversation we don’t have.

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