Masculinity, as a symptom, uses the erect penis activity as an imaginary maintenance banner of the phallic potency. The installation of the erectile dysfunction (which affects the organ) raises the issue of masculinity (which affects the being itself), thus confirming the subjective sensation of sexual "impotence" - subject and symptom fall in the erective failure.
masculinity; sexual impotence; erective dysfunction; psychopathology; psychoanalysis