Erectile Dysfunction

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Stunted

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This is not a "Can I put this in YA?" thread.

Basically, my male MC is supposed to be attractive, but, for various reasons, he is going to be losing a fair amount of blood basically every day, and has serious heart problems. (He's still running around doing stuff, though. It's fantasy. It's hard to explain.) Realistically, it might make sense for him to not be able to get it up for a little while and then recover.

So how do you feel about this? Do you just not want to deal with that in YA? Can you not have a sexy lead who can't do the deed? Do you think this would appeal to fans of the Purity trend or help keep the sex thing on the table to help increase suspense? Is it weird or gross or anything? Anything?
 
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reen definitely did something with this in one of his mss. I think one of his characters was impotent from antidepressants...

hopefully he'll stop by.
 

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*stops by*

What Shady said.

Though I'm not published, so I don't know if it'll fly. But my character was on some drugs that affected his performance. It connects to another major plot point. Not really fantasy or anything, just biochemisty.

Your storyline sounds fine to me, though.

*steps out*
 

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God. I totally thought a spammer had slipped through the registration system, and popped in here all ready to nuke this thread.

Heh. Don't mind me. I'll let myself back out.
 

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I totally thought so too when I saw the thread title, then saw Stunted posted it, haha
 

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Seems fine and realistic to me. Personally, I'm not sure one the effects of blood loss on erection, since the most I've ever really lost is donated blood, which didn't have much of an effect beyond a lot of lightheadedness.

Otherwise, go for it!
 
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