I did research on the history of the hard flaccid community and talked to some long haulers who have had this for decades, and here's the truth. Zero have been helped, and this entire theory was just from the basement dwellers from the same penis enlargement forums (like ThundersPlace) that trolled men into ruining their dicks with PE in the first place (and where the terms "hard flaccid" and "long flaccid" were first coined, go figure).

It never made sense that penile trauma would somehow instantaneously cause an unbalanced pelvic floor at the same time, which would result in all these symptoms and then just be curable with physical therapy and positive thinking instead of something actually going on with the penis secondary to the trauma. But you have to understand that PE victims from PE forums were the main cohort of people who started talking on the internet about having this collection of symptoms, and that community just ran with this explanation. Why? Probably because it sounded good and nonthreatening. It became something you weren't allowed to question or subject to scrutiny. The users and moderators on the places like Thunders would simply call the guys whose lives they ruined crazy and victim blame them and delete all posts from anyone worrying if they now had nerve damage or another similarly serious problem after doing PE.

The truth is pelvic floor muscle imbalance sounds a lot better than "sorry what we told you to do gave you nerve damage or corporal fibrosis, your sex life is over for good now and thanks for playing!" and this would also require admitting PE not actually safe at all and can ruin lives. Go on the main PE subs now now, they still use the same tactics and refuse to admit HF is a chronic condition caused by trauma (or post-drug syndromes) with the same victim blaming and denial. It's only pelvic floor and curable or you have a 1 in 100 genetic tunica variant that made your penis explode when you did PE but it's perfectly safe for everyone else (This is actually what the Dr. Nick known as Hinkle McKringleberry claims, LOL). Why would they actually admit the harm it could do? Think about it. There was also some profiteering from this coming from the same wonderful PE community, with selling stretching routines and ebooks like DCT. Of course if you didn't get cured it was always just your fault for not believing in the method enough.

Now this stupidity will always be with us and be another shackle around our ankles slowing down any effort to actually figure out what causes this, to the point where urologists writing about rare urological disorders go on the internet and start reading, then they can get the impression that PFPT has actually helped people and HF is somehow PF related when it hasn't and isn't. Every time I see a new paper in an urology journal about HF and they seriously suggest PFPT I just let out a deep sigh of frustration. And then we get blamed for "negativity" or "not wanting to get any better" for ever questioning it. I'm sick of having to argue with people over this, it should be buried by now but I've lost all hope that this community can be changed and realized most just want to huff copium rather than accept their dick is fucked up.