For me porn is something I watch when I have nothing to do and I’m home alone bored.
Porn is a coping mechanism to distract me from the anxieties, fears, and lack of safety in a sexually abusive partnership.
The problem with porn use isn’t necessarily the act of watching in itself, but instead is having it as your only way to cope with emotion and getting caught up in your head about that.
I feel like when I watch porn and masturbate regularly, it prevents me from getting hard erections over time.
I feel like it is harder for me to get and maintain an erection during real sex. Before porn, anything related to naked women or sex would get my hard instantly and sometimes even bring me to orgasm without any touching, even from myself. Now it takes manual stimulation to get me hard for any sexual activity including masturbation.
I was exposed to porn when I was 11 years old. I never felt bad about it until recently, with the start of my actual sex life and the discoverry of my erection problems. For a good while I thought that porn could have been one of the reasons for my misfortune, but now that I’ve been able to reflect on it and read and listen to evidence debunking such thoughts, I’m no longer scared of it. Sure, I’d like to cut down a bit on masturbation, but I’m not longer afraid of my problems being porn related, specially because I only watch furry porn, so it’s a big relief.
I have fell prey of thinking that I’m not good enough or my partner is not hot enough, slim enough, tall enough. I want to have consistent good quality erections and many times my head is in the way. I’m working and I’m confident I will be successful at getting what I want.
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Realising that my erection issues and porn watching are separate
I’ve definitely believed the first few, worrying about if porn has impacted my ability to get aroused when it’s time to do so
That I’m unable to ejaculate without pornographic stimulation
Porn doesn’t stop me my finishing
Cams story hits very close to home for me, I have similar experiences growing up
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Getting turned on by porn that is different from what I do with my makes me feel like I can’t get aroused by my wife.
Porn has wired my brain to be dependent on it
Wathing porn i can easily erected hours with me gf i always have control fight inside
That porn doesn’t contribute to my erection issues. But i watched porn forever and had basically no issues
That I can get an erection pretty quickly with porn but not so quickly in real life makes me worry that I’m desensitized to real sex
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That stress is a leading cause of my ED. Not porn. It’s natural that I don’t get hard right away. Foreplay and taking it a bit slower is more natural than getting right in to it. Porn does not reflect sexual reality.
That porn has ruined me forever and no matter how hard I try I’ll never be able to fix myself
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I struggle to accept my anxiety with sex. I don’t give myself the patience and understanding I give others. I expect myself to act like a machine but even if I know that’s ridiculous.
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