I thought it was a myth and never thought it would happen to me but I believe I have developed something called PIED or "Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction." This is where the hydraulics of the penis seem to work fine and I can still get an erection while watching porn but have lost the ability to get it up with real men in real life. Having this happen a couple of times can quickly lead to a performance-anxiety negative-feedback loop which only compounds the problem. So I am taking a sabbatical away from porn in the hopes of restoring my natural functioning. This is Harry Hungwell, over and out.
The symptoms are this: you can get a hard on for porn but have difficultly keeping it up with real people in real life. This is a relatively new sexual dysfunction problem that has only come about with the invention of high-speed internet porn. In the olden days simply jerking off to Playboy (or Playgirl) and occasionally watching a slow-moving porn movie with stilted dialog was not enough to rewire your brain and cause erectile dysfunction. But today's 24 hour high-speed super-stimulating porn-on-steroids is a different animal altogether. It is happening today to VERY young men because the problem is not with the anatomy of the penis but rather with a rewiring of the brain.
As I understand it the treatment for this problem is to simply abstain from all porn and porn-like substitutes FOREVER. And to refrain from masturbating/orgasm for 2-6 months until strong spontaneous erections return and you feel like you are ready to try real partner sex again.
If would like to learn more a great place to start is the Gabe Deem channel "Reboot Nation" Click here for Reboot Nation
This is a comical and poignant monologue by a very young man who struggled for years with porn induced impotence. Click here for Noah Church monologue
Another great resource is: Gary Wilson's YourBrainOnPorn.com
UPDATE August 1, 2018. It worked! It took 7 months of "flatline" before I came out of it and returned to my normal sexual functioning. Erections with real men in real life are no longer a problem for me. What this experience has taught me is that, yes indeed, too much porn is damaging. For a man to get an erection it requires not only the plumbing to physically work but also for the brain to produce chemicals and hormones. If we orient our sexuality too much around porn these chemicals can become conditioned to respond to what we see on the screen. Then when we are faced with a real life sexual situation these same chemicals do not respond in the normal way and we are left with a limp dick. I learned the hard way that porn can fuck up your sexuality. Everything Gabe Deem, Noah Church and Gary Wilson says is true. Please listen to them. Be careful with porn. Take care.
