Intro post to Porn addiction and Erectile Dysfunction

[eduser_admin]

Due to the overwhelming emails and requests we have received concerning pornography addiction and erectile dysfunction, we decided to create an entirely different thread. ED due to porn is becoming rapidly common, 3especially for young men. To our knowledge there are no support forums that can let ED porn sufferers communicate. As always this forum is completely anonymous and you do not have to use your real name.

We just want to unite and discuss methods that help reverse the effects pron has on you erections.

[palpateit]

Hey,
Googling ED and porn brought me here, and also found some good info on this problem. This video series reaaly explains it well.

Erectile Dysfunction and Porn: Part 1
YouTube - ‪Erectile Dysfunction and Porn: Part 1‬‏

Also some articles

On Science Blog:
Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction Is A Growing Problem
Porn-Induced Erectile Dysfunction Is A Growing Problem | Biology Has Plans for Your Love Life

On Psychology Today:
Day 64: Successful, Great, Normal Sex - "I am definitely cured. This is the path"
Day 64: Successful, Great, Normal Sex | Psychology Today

Who would have thought porn could do this to us?

[Sam225]

Hi,

I am a 33 year old British guy living in Sydney and I am quitting the porn habit.

I am not quite sure how long I have been watching porn for sure but porn usage has shot up over the past two years. I am not totally sure why. I think I was feeling unfulfilled with my wife in bed and I felt "well, I might just as well watch porn...". But I think that this just became the excuse after a while. Another reason is because I do like porn, it turns me on but it just became habit. I would get that urge and i would just follow it and somehow find myself sitting at the computer for an hour flicking from scene to scene, genre to genre.

So, I began enjoying watching porn more than making love to my wife. What i was watching on the screen somehow spoiled the reality of sex. I found myself watching types of porn that I have really no idea how I ended up watching. Transexuals, gay porn. I mean in real life it does nothing for me. I didn't watch harder and harder stuff just different porn to keep it interesting.

I would watch at least once a day. Sometimes i would binge and would somehow manage three times in one day! Most times I would masturbate to orgasm also. I knew what i was doing couldn't have been good for me. But you know, whilst you are doing it it feels great.

It was last year that I noticed Mr happy was not so happy any more. First I thought it was just tiredness, I was not getting morning wood any more, spontaneous erections but most of all i would not get truly hard, i mean that full 135 degrees stiffy. I could, can, still make love to my wife but it doesn't stay hard for very long and it takes me longer to orgasm. First I went to the doctors and found my cholesterol was high and my testosterone was low. They are both sorted now but still no hardon's!


So, I kind of stumbled upon this during post porn/masturbation guilt; About | Your Brain On Porn. It is basically saying that porn related erectile dysfunction is a huge problem for men now. It rewires your brain into receiving pleasure from porn only. It totally screws with your dopamine levels etc (still trying to make sense of it to be honest). 'YourBrainOnPorn' seems to be one of the few sites out there that doesn't recommend you give yourself to Jesus and he will sort it out!

And I am currently trying to reboot my brain as it recommends. Basically quit the porn totally, try not to fantasise about porn and don't masturbate or orgasm full stop. Let your brain return to normality. The problem is there is no set time scale. It seems to be at least 6-8 weeks to notice any difference but if you keep at it Mr Happy will be even happier than before.

So, this is day 6. It's harder than one would imagine. It's strange, I don't crave porn, it's more the feeling of sitting down and clicking on my favourite site that i miss. that feeling that something is missing. The hardest aspect to resist is thinking about sex and fighting the urge to masturbate. I keep getting flashes of sex in my mind involving my wife but it never connects to where it counts. In matter of fact it feels pretty numb down there to be honest but this seems to be what happens when you first start doing this.

Anyway, my greatest fear right now is that this does not work. I am really afraid that I could still be doing this two months from now with no improvement.. Only time will tell.