<human>: Hi all -

I'm 36 years old, about 25 pounds overweight, have a fairly normal life but over the past year or so I've noticed increasing problems staying hard during sex.  

I masturbate 3-4 nights per week and average sex with the wife around once a week.  We have three kids, so our sex sessions are usually more towards the quickie variety, 5-15 minutes or so.

Most of the time I can finish the act and climax, but I am definitely not as hard as I used to be.  If we are just messing around, I no longer get an erection during foreplay with direct and constant stimulation.

It seems like when I wake in the morning with my morning companion it is the most effective time to have sex.  

I spoke with a friend of mine who works for an insurance company approving claims.  He told me that it is very very common for people around 35 to start getting prescriptions for ED, such as Viagra.  

I haven't talked to my doctor about this yet, as I'm in pretty good overall health (just had a physical a few months ago as a matter of fact, and a stress test last fall, required for my line of work).    It just feels too young for me to be experiencing this --- I can't tell if it is physical, stress, etc...

Any other guys approaching middle age want to weigh in on this?  I trust the people from REddit more than the random Google articles I am finding about it.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: 36 in generally good help not getting hard like I feel I should.  Is this just a normal part of getting older?