Contents:
- Medical Video: Warning: Porn Causes Erectile Dysfunction
- Does pornography addiction cause erectile dysfunction?
- The relationship between pornography and erectile dysfunction
- 1. Pornography decreases sex drive
- 2. Pornography makes it immune to stimulation
- 3. Increase anxiety and feeling of insecurity
Medical Video: Warning: Porn Causes Erectile Dysfunction
How many times have you consumed pornographic shows or readings in a week? Is it still natural or excessive? Be careful if you are addicted to pornography. The problem is, experts warn that you run the risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction or impotence if you are addicted to pornography. How can it be, huh? How big is the risk? Check out the full answer below!
Does pornography addiction cause erectile dysfunction?
Erectile dysfunction or impotence is a sexual disorder in which the penis cannot harden or tighten (reaching an erection). To achieve an erection, the penis needs a lot of heavy blood flow. There are several causes of erectile dysfunction. Among these are health problems such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
Erectile dysfunction can also be caused by nervousness, anxiety, and excessive stress. Medically, it is true that addiction to pornography does not cause erectile dysfunction directly. Because, often watching pornography in the long term will not inhibit blood flow to the penis.
ABut, experts say that porn addiction can indeed increase your risk of experiencing erectile dysfunction. This is because the erection is not only regulated by blood flow to the penis, but also regulated by the brain. Addiction to pornography will change your brain system so that erectile function is impaired.
The relationship between pornography and erectile dysfunction
If addiction to pornography does not cause erectile dysfunction directly, then what is the connection between pornography and erectile dysfunction? Here's the explanation from experts.
1. Pornography decreases sex drive
A clinical psychologist as well as a therapist from the United States (US), Nikki Martinez explains how watching porn films actually extinguish someone's desire. Masturbation because pornography is able to release and satisfy your passion without real sex with your partner.
If you masturbate too often while enjoying pornography, your body feels enough to overflow sexual arousal. When it's time for you to have sex with your partner, you actually don't have the desire anymore. As a result, you lose the desire to make love. This fact was also successfully proven in a study by the Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine in 2011.
2. Pornography makes it immune to stimulation
Addiction to watching porn can also make you less sensitive to sexual stimulation. Explained by a psychologist from the Morningside Recovery Center in the US, Elizabeth Waterman, the body will produce abundant dopamine hormones while watching pornography. Dopamine will be read by the brain as a signal of sexual stimulation.
However, because your body has often got a supply of dopamine, a special receptor protein in the brain that is responsible for capturing signals from hormones that become immune. Even receptors need more dopamine, but the effect can be felt. As a result when you have sex or masturbation, you become difficult to be aroused, especially until the penis erections quite hard. Even though you have received quite intense sexual stimulation, for example when foreplay with a partner.
3. Increase anxiety and feeling of insecurity
Dr. David B. Samadi, a urologist from Lenox Hill Hospital in the US explained that consumption of excessive pornography actually makes someone anxious. Because, pornography is far different from reality. Hope You are not realistic about sex, so you don't get satisfaction from real sex. You also feel anxious if you cannot meet expectations or orgasm like in porn. In fact, anxiety is one of the causes of erectile dysfunction.
