 [ Symptoms ] trouble keeping it up condoms i am a 22 year old male and i have trouble keeping it up when it is time to make love during foreplay i am rock hard but when i start to get the condom out of the drawer unwrapping it and putting it on i go soft i put the condom on and i slowly lose my erection eventually i am able to get him back up but by then the mood is killed how can i fix this how do i maintain my erection during that break of getting the condom and putting it on [ Disease ] a man with functioning testicles is always producting sperm an ejaculation depletes some but not all of the sperm sperm and semen is replenished quite rapidly an amount that varies from man to man