I’ve been watching porn regularly since I was a teenager. Most of the time I’ve only used masturbation as a sleep aid, so I would watch porn right before bed. I think it was causing erection issues when I would have a new partner. Lately I’ve been obstaining from porn and masturbation as I have a new partner and want to save up that sexual energy for time with her. I’ve been coming off of anti anxiety meds which has sexual side effects so I’ve been using viagra to help get an erection, not only because of the medications but also the anxiety of sex with a new partner has always given me issues. I have had phases where I would use Lorna do masturbation to relieve stress multiple times a day, almost compulsively but that isn’t the case lately.
Not sure but it is a way of seeing if I could get a erection and I’m not having any sexual relationship right now
I started using Porn at a young age but I believe the problem I have now is that I used it often when I got bored. I wasn’t particularly ashamed of it but it was very private. I was also single the entirety of my early 20s so intimacy was something I shared just with myself and not another person. I’m hoping that by cutting porn and reducing masturbation I can be more present with my partner.
While this study doesn’t seem to focus on the desensitisation aspect of it, watching it for so long, since I was probably 12 I believe has had an effect in my visual stimulus, seeing beautiful women constantly has set me up for higher standards than I should be able to achieve and therefore ruin the erection for what I can achieve
I’ve found myself using porn when I’m not horny more recently, and think this is not healthy.
Use it to get an erection when I’m not going to be sexually active for more than a week.
I watched my first movie when I was 13 and it lit up my brain like Christmas lights. It was an intense experience seeing penetration up close. It made me different throughout my teenage years and adulthoold as I craved more variety and couldn’t take steps back that easily
Ik as of recently I watched porn because me and my last wasn’t having allot of sex if any at all so I would turn to porn. It then became something I did almost every time I got aroused. That’s when I got worried that if it I continued that I wouldn’t be able to connect with my girlfriend.
I use porn to satisfy the arousal thoughts in my mind. I use it maybe once or twice a month when I feel like my spouse and I are not going to be sexually active.
This course doesn’t address decade plus porn addiction and aims to say that you don’t desensitize your brain. Completely biologically incorrect, I fear. Is this app paid for by the porn industry? This course should be explicit in that prolonged usage to any stimuli rewires the brain. It’s biological fact.
Porn was addictive to me in the sense that I had to have it to relieve loneliness, boredom, and anything else I needed relief from. For years, it took center stage. It trapped me and distracted me to where it was a significant detriment to my productivity, relationships, and self-image. I can only imagine how successful I could have been if I had focused my attention on building relationships and developing myself instead of using porn. I don’t know of a single benefit that porn has ever given me. Only damage to myself and those that I have relationships with.
I tend to focus on porn that shows the woman having an authentically amazing time - I think it connects to a deeper issue I have with satisfying my partner and the problems that ED has caused here.
I no longer watch porn, as of roughly 6months ago. But before then it was an every day habit, that may have trained my brain to cum when the woman was cumming. This was the only time I would be able to climax, and I have noticed that this has transferred the same narrative into my sexual experiences. Along with not having strong long lasting erections.
I think I have a pretty healthy relationship with porn in general, but I do think it can be a distraction rather than a fun activity
In total, my porn use isn’t as regular as it use to be, and I’ve started noticing changes in my confidence, and size. By no longer forcing myself to cum several times a day, every day, I’ve found alternative ways to relax. I’ve given myself time to recover, and am actually able to get fully hard when I eventually do have an encounter with a partner.
Porn warped my view of reality and made me self conscious about what a sexual encounter should be.
Nope, but I’ll look for a wider range of fantasies and be pickier.
I use porn because I enjoy watching the beautiful women enjoying themselves, but it generally makes me climax really quick, and then I feel shit! That then makes me feel like what’s the point of trying to have sex with my partner cause I’m not going to please her.
I use porn after a long day or a big task and afterwards I feel really lethargic, being an athlete it makes me feel like my performance and body is lesser than it was before
I use porn to speed up my ability to cum.