I'm wondering about anxiety of not being able to keep one's penis functioning up until SRS - so that one will be orgasmic after surgery. I imagine that a few years spent on HRT will gradually take its toll on male functioning?.. (I imagine it's not so much the need to keep it functioning that wanes, but rather actual functioning itself..)

For those who are post-op, how did time spent on HRT (while saving for SRS) affect your ability to still keep it functioning up until SRS? Has age got a lot to do with it?

After almost 10 months on HRT, and at age 36, I can still get it all working down there.. It's become more a matter of choice for me as to it's behaviour when I'm aroused..

I'd like to point out it is still possible to orgasm without having a proper erection. It is really all in your head, I mean, mind.

Yeah, I was mainly trying to find out how long before it's not possible to orgasm anymore. It's been 15 months now on hrt; I can't assume I can keep it functioning forever..

I ask because I'm worried that prolonging surgery - even over, say two years - might diminish one's ability to orgasm after SRS.

Bird, I hear what your saying. Though, I'm not sure that "it's ALL in your head" (but perhaps it is). Still, I'd like to hear (if possible) from those who have been pre-ops (full-time on HRT) for some time - even years?

I'm 3yrs on hormones. It it still works. I've got almost no t in my system. I do have to be in the mood and it is much smaller than it used to be. Sometimes I'm not able to orgasm or get it up, but you have to expect that when on hormones. I'm 34 also.

My thought is that sice it still works and the wife likes it, use it.

I've got a little less than a year before surgery. It has already been scheduled with Dr. Bowers.

Imogen, I orgasm without erections. It just takes longer.

I'm a year on E and everything works just fine.   Better, really...though I have noticed mood plays more into it and foreplay has become very important(even when playing alone).  With a partner, romance is super important too - no more wham, bam, thank you ma'am.  I have to feel a connection with a person if I'm going to enjoy it.

I'm almost a year on HRT, and I still have orgasms, but no more erections or ejaculations (yay!).  I find things still "work", but work "differently".  I like to have much more touching and caressing of my whole body now, and without that, I just don't get aroused.  If I'm with a partner, I just can't get enough of kissing!  That raises my excitement level tremendously.  In particular, I find that stimulating the mound at the base of the penis, as if the penis is a clit and the mound is pressed, rubbed and generally manipulated, is very erotic, and in fact I feel that for me, this sort of stimulation is now necessary for orgasm.  It's sort of like my erogenous zones are being relocated.  I think it's important to stay on top of this process during the period before surgery, in order to have the best result regarding sensation after surgery.  At least that's how I think of it.  I know girls who did not do this, and for whom sexual desire is now a distant memory post surgery (and yes, they're sensate, they just don't care).

Same here!  I can now consider a date a success if it ends in an intense makeout session.

Quote from: Colleen Ireland on March 03, 2012, 08:42:13 PM
I like to have much more touching and caressing of my whole body now, and without that, I just don't get aroused.  If I'm with a partner, I just can't get enough of kissing!  That raises my excitement level tremendously.