"Porn-Induced" ED.

[westcloxy09]

I have been viewing internet pornography frequently (4 to 5 times a week) for the past 6 years. I am in my mid-20’s and have had a problem getting and maintaining an erection with sexual partners since my late teens when I first started looking at internet porn. I have gone to various GPs down through the years and have always been told that my problem is psychological… though I always doubted that performance anxiety could last as long as it has. After researching on the internet it seems that others are suffering as I am and the key to my problem may be porn. I realize that there is no medical evidence linking pornography with ED, only anecdotal evidence, but I have come to the stage, and have been for quite some while, that I no longer can get an erection from looking at porn or from sexual activity with a partner. If I am watching porn I must manually stimulate myself to achieve an erection. Once i do achieve an erection on my own, it will not last if I do not keep up the manual stimulation. I am going to quit my viewing habits altogether and am just writing to enquire how long, in your opinion, will it take someone to rid themselves of a psychological problem like mine and go onto live a normal seaxually-healthy life.

[Alexander_the_Great]

quit watching porn and your life will be better

[wildelady]

my husband has had erectile dysfunction for some time and now i realise he has been watching porn in incognito mode for 3 years. He likes to watch young teens and women being violated. Nice.

[Dalubaba]

Google Dhatu Rog. you will get website on herbal medicines and different approach to the problem you have. Dhatu means semen and Rog means disease. There are many websites dealing with the disorder of quick orgasmic response.

[makeitanonymus]

You guys just saved my life,,!!! i was about to commit suicide!! I have my beautiful blonde GF that i love, we were separate for three months when she was in Russia visiting her family. 3 moths i would watch porn and masturbate EVERYDAY and many days it was 2-3 times...i know...that was crazy...i was already building muscles  on my right hand lol ok sorry for being so graphic, anyways, she came back from vacations and i reaaally wanted to make love to her again and everything was going fine....till......like 8 minutes after we starter, my p started getting flaccid. i made her get to the climax and everything but i couldn't 'come' my P just passed out...she was like...u dint come?? no i said maybe i was anxious, and exactly the same thing has being happening every time (already 3 weeks), if i get to come its always with my P when its already almost flaccid. i am getting depress cuz of this, its not about coming or not, its about manhood!!! i was really worried today and started asking Dr Google and thank God i found this....Its very clear now...NO MORE PORN-MASTURBATING....bye bye celina cross...bye bye Sunny Lane...ps: baby if u read this.... sorry.... at least i didnt cheat t bad way :)

[bazinga17]

Glad I came across this forum. I was starting to worry,but, after reading all these posts I can relate to everyone. I've been watching porn for awhile and just started not getting aroused the last two weeks while i watch it.It started to worry me so I did my research and now I'm here. I like to think I caught it early because I don't have it as bad as some of the other guys, but, it's getting there. After reading the success stories of the guys who have stopped inspired me to stop cold turkey. Been 5 days now and I'm starting to feel the side affects of it. Zero Libido, sex drive went down, morning wood about every other morning.

It's turning out to be hard at times, but, im sticking to it. It feels good knowing I have an addiction and I'm taking steps to fix it. I'm looking forward to whats ahead.

Porn is no joke! I wish I knew it had serious affects like this.

[charles112]

I am so glad that I found this thread which ironically enough was in a discussion board via a porno site. Just last night my wife and I were about to have sex (a once weekly event in our relationship) when I got the same nervous feeling I used to get when I was a teenager and about to have sex. We made out for a while and I noticed that I wasn't getting hard which then made my brain focus more on my limp **** then on the action at hand. As soon as my wife went to touch me downstairs I rolled off the bed and said that I had to go pee. We went back and forth for almost an hour until I finally slipped it in her and almost came immediately. I was freaking out and told her that we need to have sex more often because otherwise I am going to *** quickly due to being so sensitive down there. It was definitely an embarrassing moment however it all makes perfect sense. By the way, I am 27. I will admit that I look at porn way too much, I think that this is my calling to stop once and for all.

[palpateit]

Thre links in my post above. Watch the videos first. On the site - yourbrainonporn - under Porn FAQ"s the first question is: "Is my erectile dysfunction (ED) related to my porn use?".
Many links are provided to answer questions, along with ED recovery accounts. The fastest and easiest path to full recovery is no porn and no masturbation. Once you have recovered you can ind a masturbation schedule that works for you.
The whys and the hows are all explained on the site.
good luck

[vough]

ok guys whats the cure or the helping agent beside quit porn? and is it 100% reversible ?

[palpateit]

Finally, some actual research:

Scientists: Too Much Internet Porn May Cause Impotence
Published February 25, 2011 | NewsCore

It may not make you go blind, but Italian scientists have identified a worrying side-effect of watching too much pornography.

Researchers said Thursday that young men who indulge in "excessive consumption" of Internet porn gradually become immune to explicit images, the ANSA news agency reported.
Over time, this can lead to a loss of libido, impotence and a notion of sex that is totally divorced from real-life relations.

"It starts with lower reactions to porn sites, then there is a general drop in libido and in the end it becomes impossible to get an erection," said Carlo Foresta, head of the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAM).

His team drew their conclusions from a survey of 28,000 Italian men which revealed that many became hooked on porn as early as 14, exhibiting symptoms of so-called "sexual anorexia" by the time they reached their mid-twenties.

There was some good news, however, as the condition was not necessarily permanent. "With proper assistance recovery is possible within a few months," Foresta said.

Other data presented at the SIAM'S annual conference in Rome suggested that Germans are the biggest consumers of online porn in Europe, with 34.5 percent of internet users logging on to watch smut.

France ranked second (33.6 percent), ahead of Spain (32.4 percent) and Italy (28.9 percent).

[Missing_it]

Hello all, new to this forum and glad I found it. Going through the same problem as most of you are and we all have the same thing in common; must be something to it.

I divorced 4 years ago but while I was married I could easily get erections and wanted sex quite often. Heck, I could hang a bath towel on my erection. When I divorced, this all soon changed.

After my divorce I began watching P and M'ing daily. The next time I had sex with a woman I did have a small loss of erection but recovered. Over the next 3+ years, this has happend a few more times and the most recent(3 weeks ago) has got to me bad. Also, with my most recent girlfriend, I had lost some of my sex drive and had trouble reaching orgasm while having sex and I seemed to respond better to harder, more intense sex only.

Since my last ED issue I binged a bit on P and M'bing 3 times a day here and there, not even getting fully erect sometimes. WOW!

8 days ago I found this forum and decided to stop everything! I think I have desensitized myself which I hope I can repair. At this point I have 0 libido. No interest in sex at all. I find women hot but nothing is happening downstairs at all.

On day 7 however, I did have 2 night-time erections and woke with a weak one, along with a sexual drem of some kind. I havent had that in quite a while. Maybe an improvement?

Will continue to post on my progress but as of right now I'm at an all time low, very depressed, lots of anxiety, crushing feeling in my chest etc. I want a relationship and I think I'm ready for one but I want my sex drive back before I go that route.

[Marmar101]

Im glad that I'm not alone with this self destructing addiction with porn and masturbation. I use to have a healthy sexual relationship with my wife until I got hooked on P and M. I thought I could have the best of both worlds but eventually it caught up with me. Now I am experience ED problems and it's really messing with my mind and D. I have no problems when my wife gives me a ** but intercourse is another story. My D gets halfway erected which leads to an embarrassing experience. I have no problems maintaining an erection when I masturbate or get a **. After reading the comments I know that there is hope if I stop watching porn and masturbating. If it gets my manhood back then its definitely worth it.

[palpateit]

ED caused by porn is not psychological, it is structural and biochemical.

Internet porn can become an addiction, and with all addictions the brain changes, or adapts. It does not matter if the addiction is to a substance or whether it is a behavioral addiction, the same brain changes result.

Today's internet porn is nothing at all like our ancestors ever encountered, with the constant novelty and genres of extreme porn. Unlike yesterday's Playboy, Internet porn overstimulates the brain structures responsible for libido and addiction.

Brain changes include a drop in dopamine receptors in the reward circuitry. Reducing the amount of dopamine receptors decreases your pleasure response to "normal" stimuli. In other words, real-life sexual partners and previous porn won't get your brain going
enough to get your penis going. Turning on dopamine receptors is how you get turned on.

Here are two well done presentations by a science teacher on the effects of pornography on the brain. They are non-religious, non-judgmental, and science based.

Erectile Dysfunction and Porn:
http://yourbrainonporn.com/erectile-dysfunction-and-porn

Your Brain on Porn - Porn Addiction:
http://yourbrainonporn.com/your-brain-on-porn-series

Knowledge is power,
good luck

[jasony48823]

I am 35 now. I did not become a regular porn watcher until I was 30. When I watch porn, I also masturbated (pretty hard).  Even when I was 32, I had no problem getting hard and staying hard at all. But I started having trouble staying hard at around 32-33. Now I absolutely have ED when I have sex. I thought it was because of my age but after reading all the posts here, I think it is more porn-induced since (1) I am still horny all the time and (2) I am very healthy (eat right, exercise and in-shape, plus I just had a medical check-up recently and nothing is wrong).

So I am going to stop watching porn now. But since I am still horny all the time, it is hard not to masturbate or have sex occasionally with my fb. For those who have recovered from porn-induced ED, can you give me any suggestion about masturbation? should I completely stop doing that? I know for sure I will not/should not stimulate as hard as I did when I was watching porn. But is there anything else I need to pay attention so that I can recover faster?? Thanks

[dan783]

I thought I was going mad till I found other posters talking about this!

I have masturbated since I was about 12 years old pretty much continuously throughout my life. In my teens I saw porn magazines and in my late teens acquired some very poor quality VHS porn tapes. The choice was very limited, poor quality and hard to come by. I never had a problem back then.

For the last ten years I've had increasingly easier and faster access to a bigger and better range of instantly available high-quality porn. I used to browse for hours, searching for videos and pics that met the exact taste of the moment for me, rather than accepting what someone else decided to put in a magazine like I once had to.

I would never get hard just looking, it required manual stimulation. If I stopped, I'd go soft very quickly. Looking back I've realised that as the range and quality of porn increased, so did my erection difficulties. They are purely psychological in my case and I bet thousands of others. One day I just suddenly made the mental connection and realised that even though I loved my wife and found her attractive, I struggled to get hard - this must be linked to years of watching porn and quick and easy getting-off!!!

My wife loves performing oral sex on me and it feels great but I seemed to quickly lose interest and go soft - which made her think she's no good at it or I'm not enjoying it. It really put her off doing it. As a man I'm sure you can appreciate that this is not good, not at all.

I stopped completely all forms of porn just before xmas 2010 and I haven't viewed any since then - so it's been just over 6 weeks and the effects are already showing. I get hard without touching now, just at the prospect of sex with my wife. When I see her in her underwear it has a profound effect on me, much more than I ever remember even when we were first together.

If I do see revealing imagery, like a hot girl pictured in a bikini (pretty much everyday advertising!) it looks amazing to me. The other day I saw a lingerie advert on eBay and I felt a slight hardening. I like this very much, it feels so natural compared to pumping it constantly to highly explicit hard core porn, always pushing the boundaries, looking for quicker and better thrills.

Wow I'm rattling on here... just thought I'd give you guys the benefit of what I've found. I hope it works for you too. Give up porn, in the end it's no good for you and you don't need it. Your biological bits will slow down to a sensible pace, everyday women will look great to you, so will your girlfriend/wife

[Iamjason]

I wanted to post because of the misinformation that's given on here and by many doctors on this issue. I have a problem with Porn induced ED and lost a great girl because of it.  I've gone to several doctors who actually told me that pornography has nothing to do with it. I've actually seen the same response by supposed doctors on here.  I don't know why they are being dishonest about it but I now know that porn can cause a serious problem with ED. After working with a counselor my problem went away completely only to return because I started againg when my GF at the time moved to another city.  

I basically want to say to guys DON"t listen to doctors that say it has nothing to do with it unless they can tell you that you have a physical problem.

[Nelson22]

E d is a problem from over marsturbetion can it be true pls  

[71TAWNY]

PORN HAS RUINED MY RELATIONSHIP.  I AM CONSIDERED GOOD LOOKING, KEEP FIT, AND LOOK ALOT YOUNGER THAN MY AGE.  I USED TO NOT MIND WHEN MY HUSBAND WOULD WATCH IT BECAUSE I LIKE TOO, AT TIMES.  BUT NOW HE WOULD RATHER SNEAK AROUND AND WATCH IT BEHIND MY BACK.  I DON'T GET IT -I WANT TO DO ALL THOSES THINGS IN VIDEOS WITH HIM BUT HE WOULD RATHER JUST J***K OFF.  I AM SO LONELY AND HORNY.  I AM TIRED OFF NOT HAVING SEX WITH A PERSON ANYMORE THAT I AM SERIOUSLEY CONSIDERING LEAVING.  HE CAN NO LONGER MAINTAIN AN ERECTION DUE TO ED-BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS HE HAS BECOME OVER STIMULATED AND CAN NO LONGER HAVE REGULAR SEX.  I CAN'T LIVE A SEXLESS LIFE.:(

[Murdok168]

It would really be a good thing to have a doctor tell me this. I have the same problems too.I don't know if it is because of overmassturbation but there is nothing else to do and i do not want to take pills so i am not masturbating for 2 weeks and see what happens.Please inform me if you find something and i will do the same!!

[ttt100]

Hi i have the same symptoms. I'm also in my mid 20's. I mb to porn for few tears. Some sexuologist wrote in another forums that mb to porn can cause this kind of ED (autoerothic stabilisation). Are you enough arouse with your g/f? Have you penile pleasure during mb or intercourse? I also think that is mental... but on the other side i found a lot of young mens which have the same symptoms, but they didn't use porn? It could be mental and physical. Did you check yours hormone?  (sorry for my english)