Can porn really lead to ed?

[NP97 Retired ModeratorPEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close NP97]

Pirate, that bit about porn after a relationship is so true. It took me no time to quit it while we were dating. Afterwords I was swearing to myself about her not letting me take nude pics of her. Either way, it took me MONTHS to ween myself off of it.

[Fluxo Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fluxo]

Ima throw my 2 cents in and say it does cause psychological ED.. Not phiscal ED.. and if its in the mind then it can be reprogrammed.. I still find it difficult to get full erection without nude pics or videos sometimes( it just will take time)

[BrokenZipper Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BrokenZipper]

Psychological ED? are you making this up?

[CUSP82 Administrator Admin of the Month Dec 2014PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close CUSP82]

No I don't think he's making it up. If you think sex with a woman is a porn movie, well if you get a girl like that DON'T LET HER OUT OF THE HOUSE! Quite a few guys have become so reliant on porn that when they get in the real situation it doesn't turn them on. It can be a problem.

[Elias Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Elias]

Psychological ED? are you making this up?

Why so surprised? Surely psychological ED is much more common than physical. Think for example if you have had one bad experience in bed when you were young and starting your sex life, that bad experience can still hunt you today and affect your performance (happened to me when I was 17 and it followed me a long time). So it is psychological, not physical.

And porn because it feeds your mind, it can mess you up for sure!

I rarely watch hardcore intercourse videos anymore but instead I just watch nude photos or soft core striptease videos. It is like back-to-basics. You know, the good old times when the Internet was still exciting and when Playboy was still a naughty magazine.

[mrfantastic Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mrfantastic]

I've had my struggles with porn in the past and now I've been married a long time and have had various struggles with sex and penis health. They may or may not be tied in with porn use, but if it's a struggle for someone and they are seeing problems, he should certainly consider pulling back from porn.

Someone mentioned reading erotic stories. How about writing your own? Make your characters yourself and your current love/crush/partner. Be as descriptive as you want to be and fulfill your fantasies "on paper". Or better yet, re-live some of your best and hottest sexual memories. Use what you know as your base and that will help to re-wire your brain toward reality. If you want to spice things up a little, write a story that your wife or girlfriend would be turned on by, and give it to her to read. Who knows if she wouldn't be willing to dress up or to act out on what you wrote?

[Dante311 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dante311]

I only watch porn when i'm really, really, really horny and NEED to ejac (which is once every 2-3 weeks)... or when I am doing uli's... so I can keep a HIGH EQ when doing it

[edrage90 Member Find all posts View Profile Close edrage90]

can porn cause you not to get morning wood due to too much visual stimulation instead of the feel of it?

[myketasin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close myketasin]

i think its quite sexy for women to watch porn also

[myketasin Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close myketasin]

maybe Porn has made significant factor to our sex appetite, it can creates imagination to our minds

[moxsum Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close moxsum]

Ive been looking into this more.. probably already been talked about but;


It seems when we look at pornography, it causes a lot of dopamine to be released into our brains.. Every time you see a sexy image it releases a ton of dopamine.. Because so much dopamine is released, the receptors in your brain get desensitized to it. Thats why it takes more and more explicit material to get you excited.. but the more you go down that road the less sensitive your brain becomes to dopamine.

Its like when you take a drug.. and at first it gets you really high, but then you need more and more to get the same effect. Then if you stop completely for a while, when you go back to it, its seems much more powerful, because your brain has slowly become desensitized to it again..

http://www.utexas.edu/research/asrec/dopamine.html

So I think there is hope.. the longer you stay away from porn, the easier it will be to get excited by sexual imagery again.

Maybe thats why buddhist monks always seem happy.. because they rarely do anything exciting, everything seems exciting because there dopamine receptors are super sensitive?! could be...

Could it be that.. the more crazy/exciting things you do, the less sensitive your dopamine receptors become and the more stimulation you need just to feel happy? Maybe thats why "adrenalin" junkies always keep pushing the limits until they push it too far one day lol.. its like the same cycle of addiction that plays out over and over again through out our lives.. Anything you do long enough gets boring after a while it seems.

So yea.. time to stop ALL porn, all fantasizing.. just be in the moment, rely on sense of touch and nothing else. Even fantasizing activates dopamine im sure.. I read a book by this guy Bsrry Long and he talkes about how men need to give up the addiction of fantasizing and pornography and that, your dick should only be hard RIGHT before you enter the vagina.. he also said this is the cure to PE.. men fantasize so much, that by the time they are about to have sex they are at like 95% excitement so theres not much room left til they blow there loads.. where as if you are calm and relaxed and not fantsziing, but in the moment, theres much more room for the eventual build up of excitement.

[Big Al AdministratorPEGym EditorMale Enhancement Coach Rep.PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close Big Al]

There's an article on this subject that should be coming out here on PEGym very soon. It's going to make for an interesting read.

[moxsum Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close moxsum]

The only odd thing is..


Like most of you, Ive been wacking off to porn for many years.. im 23 now.. probably started looking at porn regularly around 16.. but I remember even being like 12 and over at a friends house and he showed me some porn on the internet.. so i got exposed to it very early on..

But I dunno if porn is the only cause of ED.. cuz, I used to jack off to porn every single day.. and never ever had a problem getting hard, never had any problems during sex etc.. until this year when i started having anxiety/prostate problems, now it seems porn has a much greater effect on me... hmmmm

My conclusion is.. Porn alone is unlikely to cause you ED if you are otherwise healthy in every other way.. but it does have an effect.. so if your a bit unhealthy or youve got some sexual issues, the porn can have a big impact on you.. in other words, it does not help at all.. but when i was 18 i could look at porn all day and bang my girl multiple times no problem.. now i dont get any random boners, almost never wake up with a boner, etc.. wtf happened to me lol.. just a few years ago, I was horney all day long, could bone my girl like 5-10 times in a day if she was up for it.. now I can barely get a boner.. all within a few years.. WTF!

[moxsum Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close moxsum]

Im also curious.. like.. say you do other activities that cause the release of dopamine.. say over eating or exercising to get that feeling of euphoria.. does that potentially impact your ability to get aroused as well?

In other words.. does your mind/body differentiate between one addiction and another, or do they all have a larger impact on you? If im constantly releasing dopamine by over eating, then will my dopamine receptors become less sensitive and then i wont be able to get as aroused as easily.. or is it more selective.. like can it tell that im in a sexual state etc.

[Big Al AdministratorPEGym EditorMale Enhancement Coach Rep.PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close Big Al]

Porn in and of itself is inert- it's the addiction to porn (i.e.- your subjective take on it) that matters. If a man is sexually inexperience or has anxiety, porn can allow him a release that's more stimulating than mental imagery. It's when this behavior becomes so consuming that a man cannot or will not have real sex because of his conditioning [addiction] that the problems become evident.

Make no mistake about it- you do condition yourself (reward response mechanisms) physically, mentally, and emotionally when you masturbate to porn.