How can I get my stamina back?

midwestyankee

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As I wonder what will happen in 2006, one thing seems certain: my sexual stamina will be less than it once was. I am sitting here on a night of revelry baring my soul for friends and trolls alike, so please help me with your best advice, some sympathy, or just a nice funny post to cheer me up.

My story is quite simple, really. Most of my life I have been a runner and that has given me better than average stamina. When I was in college, I used to scoff at the guys who bragged about making love to Ravel's Bolero because it was only sixteen minutes long. I was never satisfied unless my lover and I had made love through at least two Moody Blues albums, three if we were really on a roll. My passion for extended sex continued into adulthood.

For many years, my standard was to put on a Verdi opera (usually Rigoletto) just before insertion and time my climax for the finale of the last aria. As I grew older, my stamina increased along with my running mileage. A thirty-mile-per-week guy in college, by my mid-forties I was closing in on 45 miles in each week of running. Likewise, my stamina in bed was improving and I graduated to Wagner's operas. My favorite was to make love though the entirety of Siegfried, with a running time of nearly 4.5 hours.

To celebrate turning 50 a few years ago, I went into intensive training. My running work focused on speed, primarily to build up the strength in my hamstrings and glutes. In bed, I had set a nearly impossible goal: to fuck for the entirety of Wagner's Ring Cycle. That's four operas totalling just under 16 hours. Within 9 months I felt that I had achieved the proper level of conditioning, and so with a willing partner and a twelve-pack of lube, we set out to make our mark on the history books of sexual stamina.

I'll be modest and simply say that yes, I reached my goal.

In the last few years, though, I've noticed a dramatic downturn in my stamina and I hope that all of you patient and wise How To people will be able to help me out. About two years ago I underwent arthroscopic knee surgery and had to significantly reduce my running. A year ago more knee injuries forced me to hang up my running shoes for life. I went into a severe depression for several months after that but now I am fully recovered.

But my stamina has not recovered. In fact, most recently I could hardly last for the length of Beethoven's piano concerto #5 ("Emperor"). I still go to the gym regularly and my weight has not changed so while I may not be quite as fit as I was in my marathon running days, surely the reduction in fitness can't be the source of this dramatic and troubling condition.

What am I to do? I can no longer last more than 45 minutes during my first sex act of the night and thereafter can barely hang on for an hour. I am desperately afraid that my lover will soon reject me for a younger man.

What advice can you give me? Please, I look at 2006 and all I can see is loveless nights of mere half-hour masturbation sessions.
 
Age is not our friend, Yank. When I was in college I used to be able to last for the duration of the Beatles white album, but now I'm lucky if I can make it through Hey Jude . The hips just aren't what they used to be.

I completely sympathize, my friend. Come on over, we'll share a six pack and amuse each other with outrageous sex stories.

Happy New Year, sweetie. :kiss:
 
Eilan said:
Yeah, but do you have a shallow pussy?

Some pussies simply trifling, trivial, and superficial. It doesn't indicate their value as pussies though I tend to gravitate towards those of more depth, intellect and vitality.
 
LadyJeanne said:
You're doomed. It's all golf pants and early bird specials from here on out.

But not the green golf pants. Oh, please NOOOOOOO!
 
bobsgirl said:
Age is not our friend, Yank. When I was in college I used to be able to last for the duration of the Beatles white album, but now I'm lucky if I can make it through Hey Jude . The hips just aren't what they used to be.

I completely sympathize, my friend. Come on over, we'll share a six pack and amuse each other with outrageous sex stories.

Happy New Year, sweetie. :kiss:
Actually, BG, I think that the hips are not your problem. My guess is that you expend so much energy fantasizing about Sir Paul while listening to Hey Jude that you wear yourself out inside your head. :D
 
midwestyankee said:
Actually, BG, I think that the hips are not your problem. My guess is that you expend so much energy fantasizing about Sir Paul while listening to Hey Jude that you wear yourself out inside your head. :D

Oh, I wear myself out fantasizing, alright. But not about Sir Paul.

The object of my fantasies is top secret. ;)
 
bobsgirl said:
Oh, I wear myself out fantasizing, alright. But not about Sir Paul.

The object of my fantasies is top secret. ;)


bobsgirl! you shouldn't have! :D


And Yank...you needing more stamina! pffft...I doubt that VERY much! :p
 
MWY, what the others said: you've had it very, very good up to now, but hey--you're 50. There are adjustments you will have to make.

I'm 54. I don't juice up like I used to be able to when I was younger. Fortunately, they make some excellent lubes.
 
bobsgirl said:
Oh, I wear myself out fantasizing, alright. But not about Sir Paul.

The object of my fantasies is top secret. ;)
Hmmm...must be that Ringo fella then. ;)
 
wicked woman said:
bobsgirl! you shouldn't have! :D


And Yank...you needing more stamina! pffft...I doubt that VERY much! :p
What can I say? I have my standards and I need help getting myself up to standard.
 
midwestyankee said:
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What am I to do? I can no longer last more than 45 minutes during my first sex act of the night and thereafter can barely hang on for an hour. I am desperately afraid that my lover will soon reject me for a younger man.

Yankster, perhaps it is less about your stamina and more about the fact that you're with the wrong lover. If she will reject you for a younger man based on your sexual stamina, why would you want to be with her anyway?
 
midwestyankee said:
What am I to do? I can no longer last more than 45 minutes during my first sex act of the night and thereafter can barely hang on for an hour. I am desperately afraid that my lover will soon reject me for a younger man.

It seems to me, upon giving your post another read, that part of your problem is that you have fetishized this business of being able to fuck through two Moody Blues albums, to the point that you are more concerned with this (IMHO) dubious talent than actually pleasing your lover. I noted that you hadn't said anything about communicating with her about the matter. Are you absolutely positive that this is what her gold standard is? Even when I was younger myself, if a man had kept stroking it into me for that long, I'd be wondering when he was going to quit already. It's a little like the legendary 18-incher, which in keeping with the sports meme, is no more useful than a volleyball serve that is so powerful that it bounces off the opposite wall of the court and leaves your team with a side-out.

About the younger men, it is conventional wisdom (don't knock it) that they tend to be hasty and shoot off early and often, and have to be trained to get to where you are now, never mind about the two Moody Blues albums.

Also: don't fall into the error of thinking that a man's cock is the only thing he has going for him.
 
First of all, you should thank your lucky stars that you don't also have to undergo arthroscopic cock surgery. Secondly, if this is a joke, it is very funny. If not, you should probably look within and try to figure out why you have this preposterous need.
 
midwestyankee said:
What can I say? I have my standards and I need help getting myself up to standard.


Is that standard in metric or inches? Need to know as I ponder some How To help.
 
wicked woman said:
bobsgirl! you shouldn't have! :D


And Yank...you needing more stamina! pffft...I doubt that VERY much! :p

I promise, I won't tell. ;)
 
GiveawayGirl said:
Yankster, perhaps it is less about your stamina and more about the fact that you're with the wrong lover. If she will reject you for a younger man based on your sexual stamina, why would you want to be with her anyway?
You may be onto something here. ;)

Know anyone who likes long pieces of music and good sex?
 
wicked woman said:
Is that standard in metric or inches? Need to know as I ponder some How To help.
My dear sweet wicked woman. The metric system does not include coverage of time (unless you consider the tiny bits of time used in computers) and the issue in this instance is all about time.

How dare you try to turn my serious plea for help into a size thing! :p
 
midwestyankee said:
You may be onto something here. ;)

Know anyone who likes long pieces of music and good sex?


*Raising hand* Oops, I don't think I'm eligible. Rats. ;)
 
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