I know this might sound very crazy, and somehow going against the morals that have been built around these societies. I have read a lot of posts from men with similar issues as mine mostly the flatline and most men during this phase aren’t usually intimate with their partners and somehow even avoid them because of PIED anxieties and they even avoid sexual fantasies about real women. I think these couple of examples are some of the factors that prolong the flatline. Our brain forms habit through repetition that’s is why we are addicted to porn and can only be turned on by porn. If we want to recover we need to get used to being turned on by real women rewiring our brain the more we use this muscle of our brain the more it will be easier to get turned on by real women. Do not avoid having real intimacy with real partners, embrace your sexual desires, embrace your sexual thoughts you’re only human and this is the only way you can get turned on by a real partner. Rewire your brain to be more present around women our struggle is to be turned on by women let’s not avoid them. It’s easier to stop porn and masturbating but recovering from PIED, what I’ve realised with my partner is that not matter what she does it can never turn me on unless I am emotionally ready to be turned on .