Mike02 wrote:Hi all, can I get some advice on how an erection obtained from an implant is like? I believe it is going to be hard, no doubt. But in term if sensing, does it make you feel artificial or even plastic? I have tried pills and injection. And their erection is pretty natural. Is erection from an implant close to these? Like a 80% or 90% close? If we could put a number to quantify it? Some one told me you could literally feel the two cylinders wrapped beneath your thin penile skin? Is it really so? Thanks for advice..
Yes, I can feel the cylinders under my skin.
Deflated, they are apparant as not natural (I purporsfully did not use the word "unnatural".) They do not feel as "fleshly" as my flaccid corpora did before the implant. My flaccid unimplanted penis just felt like meat. The implanted flaccid has a crinkly feel when and where folds occur. (Note: I have an AMS; the Coloplast is said to feel even more so.)
My erect penis is wider and flatter than before the implant. Before the implant, my cross-section was more circular. Now the cylindersside-by-side give more width than before, though total girth/circumference is not much more than before implant.
But the feel of the erect shaft is very much the same when I paplate the cylinders. When palpating the glans, however, the plastic tips are evident. But only evident if you are purposfully looking for them. When the glans is engorged they are barely detectable.
All in all, I would say that externally (to a partner) 95% to 100% natural feeling, erect or flaccid. To myself, externally, 80%-90% natural feeling. To myself internally, 100% natural feeling.
Visually, 100% natural looking except for the cross-section being more elliptical than circular. But hardly worth mentioning.
As far as orgasms are concerned, many men have reported their orgasms are delayed compared to before implant. This may be more due to damage or trauma to nerves during the operation than the implant itself. Also, many men report that, after a time (months), timing of their orgasms returns to pre-implant character. I attribute this to the nerves recovering from the trauma of the operation.
For myself, I am happy to have my orgasms delayed. Of course, one of my primary reasons for getting the implant was for my partner's pleasure, not for my own. Over the past 40 years or so I generated a huge debt of orgasms to the women I have known. I had orgasms every encounter. They quite often did not. So, I am quite happy to offer to redeem that accumulated debt now that I have a penis "up" to the task. So, I really do not care if I have an orgasm or not, as long as my lover does. I get a real thrill out of her joy. Of course, if I NEVER had an orgasm, I might feel differently, but I do have at least one for every 5 she does and this happens almost every encounter. (She is willing to continue sex for as long as I have the energy and the only reason we stop before I do is not because I absolutely cannot, but because I simply run out of energy or time.)
Remember, that the engorgement of the spongiosum tissues of the shaft and of the glans is independent of the engorgement of the corpus cavernosum tissues (which are responsible for stiffness of erection which responsibility is taken over by the implant). Engorgement of the spongiosum give a lot of "feel" and appearance to an erection, but these characteristics are only peripheral.
Remember also that if an implant is justified because one's erections are no longer working correctly, the minor differences or drawbacks are not decisive. That is, if you need one, you NEED one, and if your need is not critical, then you DON'T. An implant is not about optimization of a working erection/penis. It is for repair of a completely non-functional erection/penis.
