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Mr Felix Economakis
Numan
How does porn affect erectile dysfunction?
Felix Economakis cautions that porn can ‘rewire’ the brain to a specific kind of stimulation, and that too much masturbation can overly sensitise the penis.
Transcript
Porn can also contribute to erectile dysfunction in many ways. The first thing is that people are wiring their brains to a specific kind of stimulation, that means they can only get hard with supermodels doing very kinky things or focusing on a particular fetish. And unfortunately you're training your brain to say, well, this is what does it for me. And then normal relationships will seem a bit bland in comparison. The second thing is, if people masturbate too much while watching porn, it kind of desensitises the penis, so people are used to climaxing very quickly, they don't have a particular reason to stay harder for longer. So they find that they get aroused quickly and they climax quickly, and that's again, that's not very useful training for a real life partner.