Sexual Impotence

There are few topics that cut so deeply into one's self-image as this one. You lie beside a person you desire, whom you love — and your body refuses what your mind wants. Nothing happens. Or not enough. The erection does not come, breaks off, is not sufficient. And in the silence that follows, something spreads that weighs more heavily than any physical sensation: shame. Failure. The question: what is wrong with me?

Medicine calls it erectile dysfunction and examines hormones, circulation, nerve pathways. And that is important — some causes are purely physical and deserve medical attention. But for a large number of men, urology finds no sufficient finding. The body could. But it does not. And precisely here begins the question BodySignal asks: what in you has decided that you should not show yourself right now — not in your full strength, not in your full surrender?