Gone off porn?

Has anybody experienced loss of arousal to porn. I have a gf now and the sex with her his great, so I don’t really need the porn now, but the odd moment I find myself looking at it, it only gives me weak erections. I worry I have a problem, until I’m with my gf and they go solid again.

Is this quite normal? Does it just mean, the sex is better than porn, so porn just doesn’t do it for me anymore?

Of you can manage to go off porn completely then all power to you for accomplishing something few of us can do.

I find porn is like any other stimulant to me… Just a little and I get through a pe routine with the power of a sex god. Too much and you need more and more freaky shit to get your motor running, way too much and you start feeling sick and can’t keep an erection because you lose the illusion and see it for what it really is. Too little and you keep wanting more. It is indeed a viscuous cycle but that doesn’t mean you have to quit it cold turkey.

For some it’s just another if the few guilty pleasure in life but just like sugar, alcohol, red meats, and butter, in moderation it’s perfectly fine. When it’s so bad that you feel te compulsion to watch it right before you leave for work, at work, all day on days off. When it gets so bad it interferes with relationships and productive goals in life then it is deffinately time to cut way back, get a hobbie or a job, or help if you think it’s a problem.

Yes, it is normal. Do a favor to yourself and go with your body: do not watch porn.

I have been trying to get off it for a while, it’s just unexpected that it’s has happened almost naturally.

Why would the natural course of something seem strange and unexpected to you? What outside phenomenon can have an effect on your mind?
Getting off with REAL sexual, physical stimulation is the way we were built, our ancestors didn’t have any porn.

Agreed. Your years ahead of your peers.

Strange because I tried so many times to get off porn, and thought it would require strong will power, but now I’m just not fussed by it.

Maybe the dangers of porn to penis sensitivity should be taught in sex ed at school. It’s probably only a new phenomenon that has coincided with the availability if internet porn and high speed internet. I would bet the number of people having delayed/retarded ejaculation is going to increase in the future.

You make a good point S.P. but to add to that schools need to do more that show disgusting slides and scare teens. They should go the extra step and talk about different types of masturbation and their pros and cons as well as sex and porn abuse.

I am 100% sure my DE was from excess pressure during masturbation and over exposure to porn. Thank god now I have found other ways to stay stimulated during pe and now it has really lightened up considerable but I shall see when I lay with my wife again.

Agreed, porn is no good.

I’ve had weak erections due to porn for several years. Unfortunately, I never realized the cause was porn until I started visiting this site. I’ve been off it for three months now, and have seen a return in morning and night wood, which is exciting (no pun intended).

I love sex and enjoy watching it, even if I’m not involved, but if it’s going to cost me erections and EQ, which in turn make me feel bad about myself and strain my relationships, it (porn) just isn’t worth it.

THIS - BIG TIME! So many places online say that watching porn is not bad, there are no negative effects from masturbation, etc. I think most of these opinions are based on what was considered a “normal” amount of porn before the internet was around, when it was economically impossible to watch the massive amount that we can consume in minutes today. Many results from searching for questions such as “am I watching too much porn” or “can too much masturbation cause ED” are based on the idea of the reader being a teenager who watches a little porn here or there and is just worried because of the social/religious stigma. They are not addressing the porn viewer who spends a whole weekend inside, masturbating with such pressure and fury that they actually do cause themselves to become desensitized.

I think that porn may be fine for some people, in moderate amounts; but there are also those people who will become addicted to it - and easily so, because it is so ubiquitous now - and it is unfortunate that these people are met with responses of “no, don’t worry, you can watch all the porn you want, it’s normal” or “don’t be ashamed of your body, it is healthy to masturbate”. It’s also unfortunate that the majority of sites advocating for quitting porn and masturbation have an extreme moral/religious slant, which (for many people) is not the reason they are looking to stop.

I don’t think there’s anything unethical or morally wrong with porn or masturbation, so many of the “quit porn” sites missed the mark with me and lead me back to porn, especially when padded with the encouragement of the antithesis sites, advocating free use of porn and masturbation without limit. I agree that this information needs to be made more accessible to the general public. I don’t know if sex education is the right place, cause that seems to be a contentious area, however the information must be disseminated somehow.