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Psychology Today-Feb 2013
A quiet storm, which has been brewing for several years, has finally burst into mainstream awareness. Regular Internet porn users have increasingly been complaining of erectile dysfunction, delayed ejaculation and inability to orgasm without porn. Sexual enhancement drugs didn't offer much relief, because the problem was originating in the desire circuits of the brain, not below the belt where sexual enhancement drugs work. But caregivers hadn't realizes this until now.
We blogged about the porn-related sexual performance phenomenon here on "Psychology Today" in 2011, and the post has received close to a million views. Clearly many men are deeply concerned about this issue. Alarmingly, the lion's share of those reporting problems are in their twenties—much younger than the typical, historical ED sufferer. Nor do they suffer from the kinds of conditions traditionally associated with ED: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, use of specific medications.
Now, Dr. Oz and a team that included a urologist (Director of Reproductive and Sexual Medicine, and member of the University of Maryland Medical School faculty) and psychiatrist have explained how viewing Internet porn can cause sexual performance problems—and why users can reverse it themselves by quitting porn and masturbation.
It's evident that healthcare givers generally did not consider the possibility that the changes were physical, yet in the brain, and related to desensitization of the porn user's sexual pleasure response as a consequence of overstimulation made possible by highspeed porn's supernormal stimulation. (See the "Erectile Dysfunction and Porn" video series for details of the physiology behind the phenomenon. )
The obvious question for assessing Internet porn problems is, "How is your erection when you masturbate without porn, or porn fantasy?" An inability to maintain an erection without porn, yet maintain an erection with porn, reveals that porn use is the culprit, as opposed to performance anxiety. (See full test)
A quiet storm, which has been brewing for several years, has finally burst into mainstream awareness. Regular Internet porn users have increasingly been complaining of erectile dysfunction, delayed ejaculation and inability to orgasm without porn. Sexual enhancement drugs didn't offer much relief, because the problem was originating in the desire circuits of the brain, not below the belt where sexual enhancement drugs work. But caregivers hadn't realizes this until now.
We blogged about the porn-related sexual performance phenomenon here on "Psychology Today" in 2011, and the post has received close to a million views. Clearly many men are deeply concerned about this issue. Alarmingly, the lion's share of those reporting problems are in their twenties—much younger than the typical, historical ED sufferer. Nor do they suffer from the kinds of conditions traditionally associated with ED: diabetes, cardiovascular disease, use of specific medications.
Now, Dr. Oz and a team that included a urologist (Director of Reproductive and Sexual Medicine, and member of the University of Maryland Medical School faculty) and psychiatrist have explained how viewing Internet porn can cause sexual performance problems—and why users can reverse it themselves by quitting porn and masturbation.
It's evident that healthcare givers generally did not consider the possibility that the changes were physical, yet in the brain, and related to desensitization of the porn user's sexual pleasure response as a consequence of overstimulation made possible by highspeed porn's supernormal stimulation. (See the "Erectile Dysfunction and Porn" video series for details of the physiology behind the phenomenon. )
The obvious question for assessing Internet porn problems is, "How is your erection when you masturbate without porn, or porn fantasy?" An inability to maintain an erection without porn, yet maintain an erection with porn, reveals that porn use is the culprit, as opposed to performance anxiety. (See full test)
