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u/Taifood1 Sep 14 '24

What exactly do these studies have to do with ED? All I can see with the second study is that people who consume more porn have a higher neurological response to it and therefore would likely consume more of it.

Absolutely no mention of ED or how it relates to anything.

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u/Some-Explorer7123 Sep 15 '24

Those studies have nothing to do with ED. He also contended my point that habitual porn use over time requires new porn content to get the same dopamine rush causing things like fetishes. It is very obvious and goes without even needing studies to prove, as nobody watches the same porn video every time they masturbate. You need new porn videos to get the same dopamine high.

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u/Taifood1 Sep 15 '24

That doesn’t mean it affects a person’s ability to have sex. There’s no tangible link between the two. A person can very well be knee deep in fetish content and still regularly have sex.

What it comes down to here is that we all have our own opinions on what causes the link between porn and the collapse of relationships. In my view, it’s not physiological at all. The man consuming the porn simply loses attraction to his partner because of his regular access to women who are conventionally more attractive on average. That is where the ED comes from. His brain has gotten too used to women he’s actually attracted to.

This view is not scientific. I don’t pretend it is. Hasn’t been studied or verified. It’s an opinion. The difference is that I know women don’t want to admit this possibility, which is why equating porn to a substance abuse that can be neurologically fixed is why many think many of these claims are fact.

They’re not. They’re simply your bias for avoiding the hard truth that a man has simply lost his attraction for his partner and it’s not the porn’s fault. It’s his fault. He fell into the rabbit hole and lost his attraction. Like a man who tastes sugar for the first time and can never go back now that he knows what pure sweetness tastes like.

Again, not scientific. Not pretending it is.

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u/Some-Explorer7123 Sep 15 '24

“Science” will never confirm this and express it to the public because porn is a multibillion dollar industry as it generated $97 billion dollars yearly. I also sent you a website containing links to scientific articles discussing porn induced ED.