Getting a hard, long-lasting erection can be one of the biggest and most common sexual challenges facing men around the world. Some factors of a cultural nature, such as morality or religion, can make the perspective towards pornography very radical, and lead to the argument that Erectile Dysfunction is induced by pornography, making it the main cause of male impotence. in all territories, and at any age.
The debate is hot and very close due to the arguments for and against. In the scientific spectrum, different studies favor both positions, and for this reason, we will try to expose in this blog, the connections between Pornography and Erectile Dysfunction.
How is it possible?
An entirely subjective view could easily lead us to establish a relationship between watching porn and having complications in obtaining an erection. Without much analysis, ordinary people, both men, and women will simply say that the relationship does or does not exist, and they will defend their position according to their own beliefs. But we go a little further and let us support the argument based on analysis by the scientific method.
An investigation carried out by the Defense Group against Pornography, “Fight the New Drug”, concluded that there is a close connection between consuming pornography and suffering from Erectile Dysfunction problems. The study suggests that the continuous consumption of pornographic material, especially that classified as “hardcore”, can desensitize the sexual response, and support such a sustained, with the fact that day by day, the number of young people asking for assistance increases against ED, and it is precisely this group of individuals who, according to statistics, consume the most porn.
Some defenders of pornography in general, raise formal defects in the study, due to a possible bias on the part of the Defense Group against Pornography, since this group classifies it as “immoral”, and according to them, immorality can be treated from the sociocultural point of view, but not scientific.
Based on case studies and a review of previous research, the study argues that pornography leads men to mistakenly idealize everything related to the sexual act, making them believe that the actors, the contexts, or the dramatized situations can be a reference. of what should be your partner and your sexual encounters in real life.
It is suggested that visual and auditory overstimulation can lead to a progressive decrease in the satisfaction of men with their real partners, causing anxiety during intercourse. Thus, porn consumers may need to progressively increase sexual stimulation to feel and stay aroused.
This analysis suggests that continued porn use might change the way the brain reacts to arousal, making it less likely that a man would be aroused by different kinds of emotions. The use of sex toys desensitizes the nerves of the penis, another element that makes it difficult to achieve the desired erection.
Now, a study carried out in 2016 and published by author Gary Bruce Wilson, says that “pornography addiction is a public health problem that leads to negative effects such as depression and Erectile Dysfunction”. Wilson’s campaign against pornography raises issues of bias. Other studies that find links between pornography and ED find only a weak connection. TuCerebroEnPorn.com
This suggests that even when pornography is a possible causative factor for ED, it is unlikely to be a determining factor.
“A 2015 Trusted Source analysis of two large cross-sectional studies also point to a link between porn use and ED. The study in that link, however, was very modest. Only one of the two studies found a link, and that link was also weak.”
Also, only men who engaged in “moderate” use of Internet porn reported more ED than those who engaged in “high” or “low” use, making the process of determining actual influence even more confusing.
But it is also possible that…
Some other studies suggest that pornography is actually a great help to combat Erectile Dysfunction problems, especially when it is due to psychological or relationship problems.
“A 2015 study from Trusted Source found that men who reported spending more time viewing pornography had greater sexual sensitivity towards a partner in a laboratory setting. This suggests that pornography could help prepare the brain or body for sex, potentially enhancing sexual relationships with a partner”.
Still, the research supporting the positive effects of pornography is simplistic and preliminary, just as the research condemning it has been so far.
For now, pornography is used with great success, in some treatments to combat Erectile Dysfunction, so the debate continues on the table, waiting for more scientific arguments that tip the balance towards one of the two sides.