This article originally ran in the June 2018 issue of AVN magazine. Click here to see the digital edition.
Men are taking control of their sex lives with at-home products once prescribed by urologists in their offices. The field of “sexual medicine” is growing (and showing), as doctors team up with medical device companies to offer products for better sexual performance and pleasure.
A Personal Trainer for Your Penis
For men who have a hard time keeping it hard or suffer from premature ejaculation, the Private Gym comes to the rescue. It’s like having an at-home gymnasium for your penis! With a retail price of $99, it’s a great gift item for people to give the man in their life a stiffer stiffy.
The only program of its kind registered with the FDA, the Private Gym system guides men through the steps to strengthen the PC muscles (the impossible-to-spell pubococcygeus muscles).
Created by a team of urologists and MDs, the program offers benefits that are threefold: 1) The eight-week program can boost sexual performance by exercising the pelvic floor and strengthening boners; 2) Men using the program report more intense orgasms and more pleasure; and 3) The system helps with premature ejaculation. No wonder the company told us women are buying it as a Father’s Day DILF gift!
The eight-week Private Gym Complete Training Program combines the four-week basic program and the four-week weight resistance program featuring the Private Gym’s patented, weighted penis ring and magnetic weight for your dong that maximizes pelvic muscle growth and strength. What we like best about this program is that the video tells you when to squeeze, how long to squeeze, and guides you through the sexycises like a personal trainer! Men exercise their other muscles, so why not the most fun one?
Dr. David Etkes, MFT Ph.D., is a sex therapist trained at UCLA Medical Center who has treated men suffering from erectile dysfunction for more than 25 years. He says, “I am always on the lookout for the latest technology that will increase men’s sexual functioning. I have been concerned about the side effects of various medications and always hope to find something that can help more naturally. Private Gym is a compact device that allows men to exercise their most important organ. Doing easy exercises with it opens the gateway to enhanced natural sexual performance without the side-effects of medications.”
Oh, and one of the side effects of doing Kegel exercises is bigger, better and more intense orgasms—our kind of “side effect.”
Viberect: For Keeping ‘It’ Erect
Viberect is a handheld medical device that causes erections in men who have a hard time keeping their erection. According to its inventors, it “safely and painlessly stimulates pudendal nerve receptors located on both sides of the penis that initiate erection.” It works by sending signals that reach the spinal cord and “wake up” the sexual centers in the sacral spinal cord. Wake up and smell the erection.
According to the company, “Consequently, nitric oxide is released by the cavernous nerves to increase blood flow and erection. The device naturally stimulates the process in three to five minutes before sexual intercourse or during foreplay. It also promises to “amplify the pleasure of orgasm,” which makes it seem like a sex toy.
The ideal candidates for the device are men with “mild to moderate ED, men with unsatisfactory firmness, depression-related ED, and rehabilitation after prostate cancer treatments, and men with spinal cord injury with inability to ejaculate.” Viberect retails for $299.99. A genius device: like rehab for the penis.
Danes Invent a Device for Dongs
A Danish company has invented a medical device that promises to enlarge and straighten out a crooked or “bent” penis. “You may have even been diagnosed with a condition such as Peyronie’s disease or Chorde,” says the company, Male Edge. “If this is you, know that you’re not alone.”
Based on the same idea as a medical traction device, Male Edge takes advantage of the “process of ‘cytokinesis,’ a process where tissue cells divide and multiply when the skin has been gently and continuously stretched over time.” In a few weeks, the company says, a bent member can straighten out, as well as enlarge.
The contraption looks like a penis cage, but it’s described as “light and comfortable, so you can use it over longer periods of time in the comfort of your own home, or even under loose trousers at work.” Just don’t ask a bunch of co-workers to go to the bathroom with you, or they’ll tease you about the “chastity device” on your dick.
“And a bonus!” the company claims, “Male Edge doesn’t just increase size, it can also improve erection quality too!”
Check out the instructional videos at MaleEdge.com.
Elated About The Elator
For men who have a hard time keeping up (especially men who have had recent prostate surgery) the Elator offers some help. The device, an alternative to penile implant surgery, works much like a cock ring with silicone “shaft bands” for added support. According to urologists, for about 30 percent of men, Viagra stops being effective after a few years, and these men need a natural alternative. For men who can only hold their erection for a short time, it brings new life into their sex lives!
The Elator was invented ten years ago, and can also be used to combat Peyronie’s disease. And it has been used by people undergoing gender reassignment operations. According to testimonials on the Elator site, because of this medical device, trans men and older men with erectile dysfunction can now hold an erection—and again penetrate the world of pleasure.
The retail price is $298.00; for details, visit TheElator.com.
