Hello there, I'm new to the forum. Nice to see you and good luck to everyone!
English is not my first language so please be understanding
I'm 33 years old now and I have been suffering from both ED and DE for 10 years. I've spent a lot of money visiting doctors who claimed I'm physically healthy. I have regular morning wood and nothing is wrong with my body. I also cooperated with some psychologists and for them my problem was performance anxiety. But despite the decline in anxiety, the problem persisted... And I still felt there was definitely something else underneath. Something I couldn't understand or explain. As if a split in between real sex experience and masturbation...
After a long time I found out about Porn Induced ED and DE. And everything about that fit to my experience. Decrease in libido, decrease in sexual attraction toward partner who I recognise as attractive, impotence during sex with a real partner, feeling the real sex is somehow 'unnatural' for me, unexplained erectile disfuncions, problems with arousal, lack of spontaneous erection, lack of feelings during penetration and even lack of ejaculation. And finally... no desire even with porn. Just to ble clear: I don't use drugs, cigarettes nor alcohol.
It all fits so much with my problems!
But I'm not quite sure if my ED and DE is actually porn induced. Why? Because my masturbation was very regular for a long time but not as frequent and intense. Two or three times a week, sometimes more often. But mostly two or three times a week. Only 15 minutes each time. One masturbation per day. Most often soft porn (especially my long term favourite movies and actresses), less often stronger, sometimes only photos of models or actresses. So nothing very frequent or intense, I guess.
On the other hand I masturbated regularly from the age of 16 until now. My sexual initiation with a real partner was in the age of 23 because I was so shy. But even if I was in my relationships I always masturbated with the same regularity. And when I figured out I got ED and DE, I preferred masturbation over real sex.
Do you think that my ED and DE is still porn induced despite all differences in detail compared to other cases?
Thank you for your help!
English is not my first language so please be understanding
I'm 33 years old now and I have been suffering from both ED and DE for 10 years. I've spent a lot of money visiting doctors who claimed I'm physically healthy. I have regular morning wood and nothing is wrong with my body. I also cooperated with some psychologists and for them my problem was performance anxiety. But despite the decline in anxiety, the problem persisted... And I still felt there was definitely something else underneath. Something I couldn't understand or explain. As if a split in between real sex experience and masturbation...
After a long time I found out about Porn Induced ED and DE. And everything about that fit to my experience. Decrease in libido, decrease in sexual attraction toward partner who I recognise as attractive, impotence during sex with a real partner, feeling the real sex is somehow 'unnatural' for me, unexplained erectile disfuncions, problems with arousal, lack of spontaneous erection, lack of feelings during penetration and even lack of ejaculation. And finally... no desire even with porn. Just to ble clear: I don't use drugs, cigarettes nor alcohol.
It all fits so much with my problems!
But I'm not quite sure if my ED and DE is actually porn induced. Why? Because my masturbation was very regular for a long time but not as frequent and intense. Two or three times a week, sometimes more often. But mostly two or three times a week. Only 15 minutes each time. One masturbation per day. Most often soft porn (especially my long term favourite movies and actresses), less often stronger, sometimes only photos of models or actresses. So nothing very frequent or intense, I guess.
On the other hand I masturbated regularly from the age of 16 until now. My sexual initiation with a real partner was in the age of 23 because I was so shy. But even if I was in my relationships I always masturbated with the same regularity. And when I figured out I got ED and DE, I preferred masturbation over real sex.
Do you think that my ED and DE is still porn induced despite all differences in detail compared to other cases?
Thank you for your help!
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