"Is it worse to be clinically depressed or to have a broken dick?" That's the question Esquire contributor Kyle MacNeill has been asking himself ever since he started taking SSRIs. The pills were meant to ease his mental health issues but instead left him with a debilitating side effect: sexual dysfunction. Passionate nights in the bedroom became frustrated fool's errands thanks to genital numbness. MacNeill hasn't given up, however. His search for answers led him to a unique solution. To find out what, read his story below.
—Chris Hatler, deputy editor
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A decade of antidepressant use has caused me to suffer from an unnerving ailment: feeling pretty much nothing in my penis. Here's how I live with it.
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Late last year, I nearly passed out in my girlfriend's bed. I had forgotten to breathe for what felt like a couple of minutes until, finally, I gasped, gulping hot air. My balls ached. My temples throbbed. I had been tantalizingly close to an orgasm. "I don't think I'm going to be able to come, sorry," I murmured, burying my face in my girlfriend's breasts.
As many as 70 percent of men say they finish too quickly. Some master the art of delaying their orgasm. They flex their pelvic muscles, pick next week's fantasy-football roster, picture their math teacher—not the hot one, obviously. I, on the other hand, must focus all my energy and hold my breath to try to speed up ejaculation. There's a reason for these fraught anticlimaxes. I hardly feel anything in my penis. Touching it is as unextraordinary as touching the tip of my elbow. It's like it's been slathered in lidocaine or injected with anesthetic. My penis doesn't feel like genitalia, just generic skin. |
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With the Winter Olympics, Winter Paralympics, and Formula 1 either recently wrapped or just kicking off, watch lovers are having the season of their lives thanks to a series of special-edition timepieces and collaborative lines being released.
That includes Casio's new range of Edifice EFK-110D watches. While they're not tied to a specific competition, the silhouette's status as one of the most elegant and affordable sports watches on the market is well established. |
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In 2012, the writer and animator Seth MacFarlane, famous at the time as the creator of Family Guy, created something else entirely. Ted was a movie about a degenerate manchild (Mark Wahlberg) and his degenerate talking teddy bear (voiced by MacFarlane), rated R, raunchy with sex and drugs. The animation of Ted was creepily real, which made MacFarlane's hilarious script—frat humor but with smart, biting social commentary—funny in a way that felt new. (In the opening scene, between bong hits Ted mimics a woman having an orgasm with a Boston accent—"hahduh! hahduh!"—adding, post-climax, "That was so great, now I'm gonna stuff my face with fuckin' Pepperidge Fahhhm.") Roger Ebert, America's film critic, loved it. To this day it remains one of the funniest screenplays of the twenty-first century. Season 2 is on Peacock now—John's senior year of high school, during which more hilarity ensues. Esquire sat down with MacFarlane; Scott Grimes, who plays Matty; and Max Burkholder, who plays teenage John. |
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 What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers |
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You have to hand it to the Secretary of Talking About War. $124,000 for ice cream machines? I had no idea our warfighters at the Pentagon had such a sweet tooth. |
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I don't believe enough attention has been paid to the fact that, in addition to his sketchy behavior, incompetence, and relationship to an international sex criminal, our president is sort of a sick fck as regards the rhetorical value of other people's death and injuries. |
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With the Senate now in knots over the president's beloved SAVE America and My Ass bill, Senate majority leader John Thune, who is taking incoming hits from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, took some more from MAGA stans who proposed bringing back the "talking" filibuster as a way to counter the unified Democratic opposition to the bill. |
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Last weekend, Senator Lindsey Graham made the Gobshite Rounds on the teevee, and he sounded like the most bellicose legislator this side of the Klingon High Council. Graham was the subject of one of the first successful soul-ectomies performed by the current president way back in 2016, and he continues to be the index patient for the procedure. |
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It's a continuation in the series of complete cock-ups from the current DOJ, the hiring policies of which have been, let's say, unique. |
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