So where does this leave us old blokes, competing for the attention of you gorgeous 'old bags'??!! lol

Is this a fact? Where are the stats on the site users? Be interesting to know why there are so many more men that women.

she is just making a collection of semi-decent specimen to show to her shy girlfriend who hasn't mustered the courage to register with POF yet.

After reading about all the awful-sounding therapies, one would immediately lose any erection.

Interesting how so many are ignoring how the Muslims are trying to transform England

My G/F doesn't think that she's very attractive. She melts my heart when she smiles.

MAYBE if we could hear inside people's heads out there, we'd be more discouraged. I think the threads here are "inside people's heads" talk.

...I think most of this is "inside" talk. Unfortunately there is an awful lot of inside talk going on and a great deal of it is quite nasty....

... there are those that really do think like this in their head but they know they can't say it outloud in their real lives because of perceptions and repercussions. So they come in here and vent all those saved up thoughts....

potential employers only look at the jobs you've had

I'll tell you what I "hate". When you disagree with someone, and they call you "obtuse" or "stupid" or say "you're not thinking correctly" because you've come to a different conclusion. It seems a common accusation in threads.

I can't believe someone held up Turkey as a Country that repects Christianity...

based on your limited experiences

Facts About Erectile Dysfunction
What Is Erectile Dysfunction (commonly known as "impotency")?
• Erectile dysfunction is defined as the inability to achieve and/or sustain an erection for satisfactory sexual performance.
• Erectile dysfunction is the most common sexual disorder in men.
• Degrees of erectile dysfunction:
• Mild……….successful erection 7-8 out of 10 attempts
• Moderate….successful erection 4-6 out of 10 attempts
• Severe…….successful erection 0-3 out of 10 attempts
• Men experiencing erectile dysfunction often report increasing anxiety, loss of self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, tension and difficulty in the relationship with their partner.
Erectile Dysfunction Statistics:
• One in 10 men in the world have erectile dysfunction.
• 30 million men in the United States have erectile dysfunction.
• 50% of men with diabetes have erectile dysfunction, frequently within 10 years of diagnosis.
• The likelihood of erectile dysfunction increases with age: 39% at age 40, 65% over the age of 65.
• Smokers have a higher likelihood of erectile dysfunction. Men who smoke more than 1 pack per day have a 50% higher chance of impotency than nonsmokers the same age.
Erectile Dysfunction appears to be on the rise:
• More men are experiencing impotency because the baby boomer generation is getting older. According to same reports, every 7 seconds a baby boomer turns 50 years old.
• Awareness of the problem is increasing, which increases the number of men who are treated.
• Because, in the past, men have generally been unwilling to talk about their problem or seek treatment, erectile dysfunction has been underreported.
• Many physicians are not aware of the treatment options, so patients have been either undertreated or not treated at all.
• According to a report in Newsweek, 11/17/97, "Each new drug, with its attendant publicity, brings more men into the game. Some urologists expect the number of men seeking treatment to double in the coming years."
Causes of Erectile Dysfunction:
• Arterial Insufficiency (Vascular disease): Diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking
• Surgery: Prostate removal for prostate cancer, pelvic surgery for colon cancer
• Nerve damage: Spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, stroke
• Endocrine imbalance: Low testosterone levels
• Emotional/psychological: Depression, stress, anxiety
• Medications/drugs: Blood pressure medication, alcohol, sedatives, narcotics
Treatment Options
Oral medications:
• Phosphodiesterase Type 5 (PDE5) Inhibitors
o Viagra (Sildenafil) - Pfizer
o Levitra (Vardenafil) - Bayer/Glaxo-Smith Kline
o Cialis (Tadalafil) - Icos/Lilly
• Unlike the other treatment options described below, PDE5 inhibitors do not cause an immediate erection. These pills work by blocking a chemical in the penis that normally causes the erection to subside. In this way, PDE5 inhibitors enhance the erection as it begins to occur. The pills are taken as needed and are effective only when a man is sexually stimulated. Viagra and Levitra should be taken on an empty stomach (to allow for maximum absorption) and will typically be effective 30 - 45 minutes later. Cialis can be taken regardless of meals and studies have reported effectiveness within 30-45 minutes of ingestion. Viagra and Levitra will typically stay in your system for about 4-6 hours whereas Cialis is reported to be effective for up to 24-36 hours after ingestion.
• As with most medications, PDE5 inhibitors can interact with other medications and cause detrimental effects. Nitrate medications, such as nitroglycerin and Isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil) as well as the recreational drug Amyl nitrate, cannot be taken at any time if you are using PDE5 inhibitors. For patients considering using Cialis, it is important to avoid nitrate medications for up to 48 hours after ingesting Cialis. Alpha - blocking medications, another class of medications, can also cause drops in blood pressure if taken with PDE5 inhibitors. Alpha blocking agents are commonly used to control blood pressure as well as to treat symptoms of prostate enlargement. Alpha- blockers include Hytrin (Terazosin), Cardura (Doxazosin), and Flomax (Tamsulosin). For patients taking Viagra you must avoid taking alpha- blockers within 4 hours of ingesting Viagra. For patients taking Cialis, you can only take Flomax at a dose of 0.4 mg daily. Use of Cialis with Hytrin or Cardura or a higher dose of Flomax is prohibited. Use of Levitra with any type of alpha-blocker is prohibited.
• PDE5 inhibitors have been shown to be effective for treatment of erectile dysfunction. Viagra has been available since 1998 and experience with this medication has shown approximately 70% of patients will have a positive response to Viagra. Studies using Levitra and Cialis have shown similar results with regard to effectiveness although they have only been approved since 2003.
• Side effects are similar for all three types of PDE5 inhibitors with the most common being headaches, facial flushing, nasal congestion, indigestion and visual disturbances. Studies using Cialis have also reported back pain and muscle aches in a small percentage of patients, which have not been reported to occur with Viagra or Levitra.
Vacuum Pump:
• The penis is inserted into a plastic tube while a hand-held vacuum pump draws blood into the penis. A constriction device is then place around the base of the penis to prevent the blood from leaking out of the penis. The plastic tube is then removed and sexual activity can begin. The constriction device must be removed from the penis after 30 minutes.
MUSE Intra-urethral suppository:
• A patient slips an ultrathin applicator into the opening at the tip of his penis and gently pushes a plunger that releases a small, rice-sized pellet of the medication alprostadil. The medication is absorbed into the penis and dilates the blood vessels in the penis causing an erection to occur usually within 10-15 minutes.
Injection therapy:
• The medication alprostadil (available as Caverject and EDEX) is injected directly into the penis, causing dilation of the blood vessels in the penis. An erection usually occurs within 10-15 minutes and generally lasts 45-60 minutes.
• A rare but serious side effect is priapism, which is an erection that lasts more than four hours, potentially causing tissue damage in the penis.
Surgical implants:
• Various mechanical devices may be implanted into the penis, which provide rigidity. One of the more popular devices is an inflatable penile implant that is activated by squeezing a pump in the scrotum. Penile implants are completely within the body, much like breast implants, and are generally not visible to others, especially the inflatable penile implants. Placement of the implant requires a surgical procedure that is covered by Medicare insurance.
http://www.mmhc-online.com/articles/impotency.html

When I have reached out to people that I would like to talk to, I get some responses back like "your way too tall for me" or " I am looking for someone with brown hair" or "there age difference is too much for me" (that one was 5 years older than I).

When you search for people, you can do it many ways. I was looking to know if men, search for shorter women over taller, or large chested over smaller chested, or asain decent. Do women look for men with lots of hair on there heads or bald, shorter or taller, thin or normal?

When someone comes here to POF, do they have a picture in there mind of what they want. For some women it maybe good looking, tall, red hair, etc. For some men it could be Shorter, a little heavy, smaller chest. And is that the way they choose who they will possibly date in the future, based on what is in there mind?

I have never bought an umbrella in my life, even though I currently have three, I have always managed to find an umbrella.
So, is this behaviour 'normal', has anyone else ever managed to 'exist' on this planet for 46 years (or any other quite lengthy period) without the need to purchase an umbrella?

Took a sabbatical after death of spouse to raise children.

i believe some of these forum "personalities" are acts.

I agree with this. I think there are a lot of people who come off as angelic on here--they never yell, they don't get angry

Why would a country spend billions on a new space programme and yet let it's people suffer? Why do the UK send over £200 million in aid and yet we hardly see the results- I think it's out of some guilt trip more than anything. Also, I am a liberal but I hate giving money to people on the streets, simply as I don't know if it's aiding them or destroying them but when I saw the railway children, it really punched me in the gut.

Has anyone else experienced this sort of thing?

With all the insane asshat issues that so many people seem to have in the real world with relationships, have you ever realised your not missing much if this is really what the world is turning into?

Most of what is posted is asinine at best, yet these people seem to think it's the norm.
Then with the serious replies those threads get, I'm starting to think it is too.

I mean who really needs all of the chaos, drama, and childish problems in their lives?
I have often wondered if most don't meet while in line at the pharmacy getting their anti psychotic/depression scrips filled.

So does reading threads help you find comfort in only having relationships with family and friends , if anything just to avoid ever running into some of the ignorant asshat people ?

... if she were conservative and used her public voice to endorse conservative ideals, she would be their darling. None of them would complain about her having that much power and not being an elected official.

And as far as her being arrogant.... To come from where she came from and to do what she did, in what was previously an all boys club, is nothing short incredible....

Do you think it matters to all of the people she's helped along the way whether she did so out of her own self importance or out of pure altruism? ...she did something to make peoples lives better. And she's done so (and justly so) on a large scale. ... 50 million a year is considered, "much" by most accounts.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/21/health/sex-medicine-gentlemen-start-your-engines.

The International Journal of Impotence Research found that the study's estimate that 35 percent of men from age 40 to 70 have moderate to severe erectile dysfunction was ''considerably higher'' than those of the 13 other epidemiological studies it reviewed, which covered various age groups in different countries and found prevalence rates ranging from 5 to 20 percent.

bad things happened even then, we just didn't know about them all the time

I've spent a few years in Siena and I was wondering what people who visit it think about it ?

If you want to to see a movie or play, you should feel free to do so alone and not feel alienated or embarrassed because you choose to go solo!

Does morality tend to get lost in the advance of technology or is it the forebearer? Does anyone want to predict what 30 years from now will bring?

..... I have met men and women that no longer desire affection nor do they give affection. Sex is a different story but the affection that we showed whenever we were younger is gone. What happened to it?

.... He told me he doesn't desire affection. He doesn't mind giving me some affection but that closeness to another human being mystifies him. And he doesn't desire to touch, caress or hold another of the opposite sex very often. And he doesn't need that holding, caressing, or touching. I have heard this from others my age.

How does affection work or tell me how it doesn't work for you? And what part does sex and affection play into for you. And if you use to have it in the younger years and lost it why?

Having been married to two younger men I have to disagree here.. They are in fact very attentive lovers. They are well versed in the mechanics of a woman.. That is not to say older men cannot be just as good!!! However I would be somewhat concerned if he had issues about his performance..Would tell me something about his confidence level and how that might well translate out overall

....don't look for other singles when I'm there - I go to enjoy the show.

Europe has reconized this but the US way behind on this issue .

the kid got the exact same punishment that anyone else would have.

...parents who refuse to visit with their children don't get hauled off to jail.

I decline to get into this childish debate on who pays, yadda yadda...

It is perceived so much differently when a woman is out alone.

I like to see plays and opera. Most of my friends do not so i go alone by myself. to me it does not look strange till yesterday when someone told me that it looks wierd for a woman to be by herself at theatre and opera thought??

...going to things you enjoy alone opens up the opportunity for social adventures (or misadventures) that otherwise wouldn't be there.

I think Sugarland sings this song....mean girls.