A lot has been, researched, written, and talked about the male disease erectile dysfunction in the recent times. Previously people preferred to follow the saying ignorance is bliss as regard to this disease. Now this attitude has been shunned away by both the medical fraternity and the common people. People have grown to the fact that impotence is a disease and it is better to treat it that way to have the best effects.

This changed attitude of the people regarding the disease is however not a guarantor to the fact that there are no more misconceptions or myths amongst the people related to the disease. You will be surprised to know that many people are not clear regarding the difference between, impotence and infertility. There are many who think that infertility and impotence are all the same! Quite the contrary in reality.

Impotence is what we technically term as erectile dysfunction. On the other hand a man is said to be infertile when his sperm lacks the ability to fertilize the eggs in a women. An infertile man need not be impotent and an infertile man might not necessarily have impotence though there are chances that both these problems co exist in a person. Nothing can be worse than this that a man is not being able to penetrate nor is being able to fertilize. It actually becomes difficult for a man who cannot penetrate to fertilize the eggs in his lady love for the very simple fact that he is not being able to induce the sperm into the lady! May be this is the cause behind the fact that around 40% of the infertile couples have the male as the one responsible behind the infertility. Also that around 10 million Americans experience ED even before they are 40!

Impotence or erectile dysfunction is actually more common after a man has crossed 40 not before that. Impotence implies infertility not because a man has poor sperm quality but because as I have already mentioned his inability to get his organ into the lady. For the sake of both the diseases ED cures had become an absolute necessity. Results yielded a few years back in the form of the oral ED drugs. There are quite a few ED pills available in the market today for the concerned person to choose from, such as , Cialis and Levitra.

These ED treatments are nowadays available online also for the convenience of the buyer. In case you are looking to or Viagra, all you need to have is the prescription, once received you can even . However, in case a man is infertile there is no way out other than going to the doctor. There are innumerable causes leading to infertility and it cannot be treated the online way as is the case with impotency. Sometimes infertility actually proves to be incurable wherein other measures are required to be adopted to enable the couple to have an offspring.