About
Why this site exists
Most information about erectile dysfunction online is either a clinic advert wearing an article's clothes, or a medical reference written for people who already speak medicine. We wanted the version we would give a friend.
About half of men in their fifties have some degree of erectile dysfunction. Most never mention it to a doctor. A good number of them end up typing the question into a search box at midnight and landing on a page whose real purpose is to sell them a subscription.
ED Treatment Spot is written for that man. Over fifty, probably managing blood pressure or cholesterol or blood sugar already, not looking for a miracle — just wanting to know what the actual options are, what they cost, and which of them are worth taking seriously.
What we do differently
We do not sell treatment. No pills, no consultations, no subscription plan. That matters more than it sounds: a site that profits from you choosing one particular treatment has a reason to make that treatment sound better than it is.
We name the risks. The interaction between ED pills and nitrates can kill you, and it appears on every page that mentions pills rather than in a footnote. An erection lasting more than four hours is an emergency, and we say so plainly. Where a treatment is unproven — shockwave therapy being the obvious one — we say that too, even though the clinics selling it advertise heavily.
We write for people, not for search engines. Short sentences, no euphemism, and no thousand-word preamble before the answer.
We design for the men who read us. Body text is 18 pixels rather than the usual 16. There is a text-size control in the header. Colour contrast is set well above the accessibility minimum, and links in articles are underlined so colour is never the only cue. None of that is decoration — it is the difference between reading a page and giving up on it.
How we research this
Our starting points are the professional guidelines — principally the American Urological Association's guidance on erectile dysfunction — along with FDA labelling for the drugs and devices involved, and peer-reviewed literature where the guidelines are silent.
Where evidence is genuinely uncertain, we say it is uncertain rather than picking a side and sounding confident. Where a treatment is marketed far beyond what the evidence supports, we say that as well.
Every article carries a review date. Health information without one is not worth much, because you cannot tell whether it predates the thing you are asking about.
What we are not
We are not doctors, and this site is not medical care. We cannot diagnose you, cannot tell you whether a particular drug is safe given your other medications, and cannot answer questions about your own symptoms — including by email.
What we can do is get you to the appointment better informed than you would otherwise be, which is genuinely most of the battle. Read the full disclaimer.
Editorial standards
The rules we hold ourselves to
Written down so you can hold us to them, and so we cannot quietly drop one when it becomes inconvenient.
On content
- Guidelines and FDA labelling before anything else
- Uncertainty stated as uncertainty, not smoothed over
- Every serious risk named on the page it applies to
- A visible review date on every article
- Corrections made openly, not quietly edited away
On money
- Paid links marked as paid, on the page, before the link
- Ratings scored against published criteria, never commission
- Partners get no advance sight of what we publish
- Directory listings are free and cannot be bought
- Negative findings published about partners as readily as anyone else
The full advertising disclosure explains exactly how the commercial side works.
Something wrong, or something missing?
If we have got something wrong, we would rather hear it from you than leave it up. Corrections are made openly and dated.