I try to send a note to every new guy who joins the site, welcoming them and encouraging to participate. I always say that this is the greatest bunch of guys on the internet. Those aren’t empty words. I’ve never seen a discussion board or chat room where the support, encouragement and honesty is more apparent. I belong to several discussion type sites, and there are always arguments and squabbles going on between guys over the most trivial things.
Maybe it’s because our topic is anything but trivial that this is such a great band of brothers. Guys come here from all over the world to talk about the most intimate area of their life – and their failures, fears, and disappointments in that most intimate area. Each guy has come here with his soul bared and the response is compassion, caring and support.
The site has continued to grow at a steady rate. We recently passed 1000 members and we are getting over 12,000 hits a month with 7000 unique visitors a month. Each month, 50% of those visitors are brand new (do some rough math and you realize that nearly 50,000 men have been on FT this year). All this has been done with absolutely no marketing, SEO work or advertising. We had a nice mention in a few places, but aside from those, we have continued to grow as men find us.
The Erectile Dysfunction Foundation, who now owns and runs FrankTalk.org, is already under great pressure to meet the needs of the 35 million men who have ED. As the ONLY advocacy and support group for men with ED, the need for our involvement in public awareness, educational programs, prevention, and becoming a united voice to the medical community is increasing daily.
But as with any new organization, we need resources to begin our work. FrankTalk alone needs money simply to stay online. There is new material that needs to be posted, redesigns to make things easier, and improvements in chat and the discussion boards. We can do none of this until we have money to do it. Your tax deductible contribution to our work will make a huge difference.
Remember how you felt when you first found FrankTalk? The relief? The sense of hope? The feeling that you were no longer alone? Pass that hope along to the next guy whose life is slowly crumbling because he has lost all hope.
There is a donate button at the top of the home page. You don’t need a Paypal account, simply enter your credit card info. If you’d rather use snail mail, our address is
EDF, Inc.
PO Box 181
Greenwich, CT 06836
As the ONLY non-commercial site for ED and the only one with no agenda, we are a David among hundreds of Goliaths. Please help us Give Men Hope.
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Paul:
I just read this welcoming message. Its dated 11-10-11, so it is pretty new. But you have hit the nail on the head and I think found the reason that this place is so special. We bare our souls. There is nothing more personal or private for a man than “coming out” and admitting his penis doesn’t work right. We are very ego driven, and there is nothing that indicates a man is a man more than a hard as a rock, blue vein, head popping erection! Right or wrong, that is something that seems to be prewired, at least to a man. Every one of us, no matter how educated or enlightened, when seeing such a sight won’t say to himself “Man, I wish I was like that!” Once we have accepted the reality that we will never be like that, and may not even be able to get a usable erection, and also realize that there are hundreds and thousands of guys out there that, if we met them on the street, we would look at and say (to ourselves of course) “MAN, I bet he’s got a penis that’s bigger, better, and harder than mine.” Then we get on here and find out, he’s one of our brothers in the Secret Society of the Limp Dick. We immediately let our jaw drop, along with the defenses we have built up to keep this horrible secret, and realize – hey, we’re all in this together, and we really are all still men in the eyes of other men, we’ve been putting ourselves down for no reason, we’re no worse off than all these other guys. Dropping all those defenses is what causes us to open our souls and hearts to each other in genuine concern. I know I have sure felt it, doing things and offering to do things that most would find a little “strange”, but I know how the other guy feels and what he’s going through. I can put aside my dignity or modesty or inhibitions a bit to help our another guy. Others did it for me, I can pay it forward and help others. This site has been a blessing to me. I’m having trouble financially or I would support it more in that fashion. But if there are other things that need to be done that I can do from out here in the sticks in Michigan, let me know. Maybe instead of AA, we can form chapters of LDA (limp dicks annonymous)! Just a thought.