Sexuality with a partner would become disappointing in the eyes of some men who consume a lot of pornography, which would cause a lack of excitement and therefore erectile dysfunction.
- 23% of men under 35 who watch porn frequently tend to suffer from erectile dysfunction
- The increasingly explicit nature of pornography may leave some men disillusioned with real sex
- Erectile dysfunction problems associated with porn arguably stem from lack of arousal
Men who spend the most time watching pornography are more likely than others to suffer from erectile dysfunction. This is in any case what advance researchers whose study was presented at the congress of the European Association of Urology, which was held online from July 17 to 19. According to them, heavy porn consumers would ultimately find it difficult to take action with a partner.
The Explicit Nature Of Porn Makes Real Sex Disappointing
For this study, 3,267 men from Belgium and Denmark completed a questionnaire about their sexual experiences, pornography consumption and masturbation habits. Result: 23% of men under 35 who said they watched porn frequently also tended to suffer from erectile dysfunction during their sexual intercourse. According to researchers, the increasingly explicit nature of pornography may leave some men disillusioned with real sex.
“In our survey, only 65% of men felt that sex with a partner was more arousing than watching pornreports Gunter De Win, the lead author of the study. Additionally, 20% felt they needed to watch more extreme porn to get the same level of arousal as before. We believe that porn-associated erectile dysfunction issues stem from this lack of arousal..” The researchers do not specify from when the consumption of pornography is considered excessive and therefore likely to cause this type of disorder.
The influence of screens on erectile function
Erectile dysfunction is characterized by persistent or recurrent inability to achieve or maintain an erection for sexual intercourse. Quoted by the French Association of Urology (AFU), the Massachusetts Male Aging Study (Feldman 1994)”states that overall 52% of men aged 40 to 70 have erectile dysfunction, 37% of which is significant. These figures are found in the French population (Giuliano 2002) with 31.6% of erectile disorders on average and 66.7% after 70 years”.
Investigation Ifop conducted in 2019 revealed that 6 out of ten men (61%) experience erectile dysfunction at least once during their life and evoked the influence of screens: “VSAmong those under 35, the proportion of victims of desire disorders or erection problems is thus clearly higher than the average (33%) among men who watch pornographic videos daily (55%), their social networks (39%), information apps (41%) or films and series such as services such as Netflix (38%)”.
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