Dr. Drew, we have to talk...

Dr. Drew says that his prostate was removed in July, but his sex life is still normal and everything's pretty-much OK. Bullshit!

I'm a prostate cancer survivor myself, having had a brachytherapy procedure in April of 2010, and the experts I've been going to tell me that all men, if they live long enough and have any kind of normal sex life during all that will eventually develop prostate cancer. My prostate wasn't removed, but the cancerous portions were effectively burnt out from the inside by the radiation from about 150 tiny little radioactive pellets targeted at the cancerous spots.

For those unfamiliar with the mechanics involved, the prostate is about the size of a walnut, and it completely surrounds the drain tube coming down from the bladder. That drain runs though the center of it like the core in an apple, so if something irritates that prostate, or kills a lot of what's in there, like the cancerous portions, then that drain tube is going to be irritated, and it may try to shut down due to swelling, etc. so there will be problems with urination, most of which is relievable with drugs like 'Flomax'.

Your sex life will NOT be normal, however, because about 98% of whatever happens during a climax comes from the prostate's production of fluids, and that process has now been severely impaired or eliminated entirely, especially if the prostate was physically removed by surgery as in Dr. Drew's case. Your erectile dysfunction has nothing to do with your prostate, and everything to do with normal aging - it comes with the territory as we get older, and it's God's way of telling us it's time to forget about procreation because you're probably too old to perform all the years of parenting your offspring will need if you had any just then.

So don't tell me that 'everything's normal' or 'everything's OK' - just tell me the truth instead of a bunch of damned lies, and let's both be thankful that we've survived something that frequently kills others who aren't paying attention to their Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test results, or may not even be getting those tests regularly. If you must talk about this, then tell people what they ought to be watching for, and what to do about it - don't just tell us what a nice guy you are and how you've miraculously preserved functions that can't possibly be 'normal' without your prostate being present and functioning normally.