what doctors think about porn induced erectile dysfunction

Viper

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I'm curious to know if any of you sought doctor's advice for this?
I would like to know your experience and the doctor's take on this.

Both my family doctor as well as the Urologist dismissed porn as a likely cause.
Because in their mind, porn is supposed to do the opposite, so it can't be logical.
So they say.
What's it going to take for the medical community to recognize this plight?
 
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PresidentCoolidge

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One of the biggest problems with modern medicine in America is that it is heavily influenced by corporations and profits. They're more concerned with selling people short-term solutions to medical problems caused by long-term lifestyle choices. Think about it, usually when people see their doctor for erectile dysfunction, they'll do a bunch of tests for things like blood pressure and hormones. If they find out something is physically wrong with you, they'll prescribe you Viagra or Cialis. If they find nothing physically wrong with you, they'll say "it's all in your head" or diagnose you with performance anxiety and prescribe something like Xanax. Either way, they're prescribing you a drug so you can fill the pockets of the big pharm executives.

Did you know that the pharmaceutical industry is the most profitable industry of all other industries in the SP500 combined? That's because they fund most medical programs, thereby training doctors to prescribe the drugs that they manufacture. It's the same reason that marijuana is still illegal. Why let people grow medicine in their own backyard when you can sell them something that will make you rich?!?!

Bottomline: there is no money to be made by researching the effects of porn. Telling a patient that he can override his ED by giving up porn doesn't provide any profits for corporations.

*But also...the topic has not been researched enough to provide 100% conclusive studies for the medical community on whether heavy porn use causes ED or not. Although there is plenty of anecdotal evidence and lots of research that has been done on Internet and porn addiction.
 

fugu

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Most doctors don't know about the condition yet and will say it is all in your head. The problem is that highspeed internet porn and the problems it causes is so new that people haven't had time to catch on yet.

There are some people catching on! A urologist from New York named Lawrence Smiley knows it is real, and there are some doctors from beverly hills who know it, too. It's just a matter of time until it catches on!
 

Gabe Deem

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@Viper
What's it going to take for the medical community to recognize this plight?

More and more guys speaking up about it, and the fact that they simply will start seeing it more and more in their practice. In the end, it is up to Reboot Nation and other like us to get the word out.

Here is a list of media coverage on the topic so far, scroll down until you get to the "Porn-Induced ED In The Media" section.... word is getting out slowly but surely.
 
Believe me I asked multiple drs and they all just said that's bs but I saw a top uroligest and all he said they were starting to learn about this it is very rare to find a Dr that practices this.
 
I think you could get a more accurate opinion from a psychiatrist than from a medical doctor. Since the addiction to porn stems from psychological and neurological conditioning, a doctor whose focus is your brain would be more helpful. Therapists/doctors who treat people with drug and alcohol addictions have backgrounds more in psychology, so they wouldn't be as quick to dismiss you. It is a very real thing that seems to rearing its ugly head just recently after years of mass overexposure to porn that is so readily available.

I would recommend talking to a therapist who specializes in addiction.
 

Viper

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HelpUsHelpUS said:
I think you could get a more accurate opinion from a psychiatrist than from a medical doctor. Since the addiction to porn stems from psychological and neurological conditioning, a doctor whose focus is your brain would be more helpful. Therapists/doctors who treat people with drug and alcohol addictions have backgrounds more in psychology, so they wouldn't be as quick to dismiss you. It is a very real thing that seems to rearing its ugly head just recently after years of mass overexposure to porn that is so readily available.

I would recommend talking to a therapist who specializes in addiction.

Thanks for the input and yes, what you said makes sense.
May I ask if you or anyone else have ever seen an addiction professional weather it's a psychiatrist or therapist for
this kind of thing?
 
You're welcome. I just wanted to add my two cents on this because I have a psych degree, and part of what we studied was the effects of addictions on the brain. I'm sure if I did some digging around in my old books I could find some very relevant material to share on here.

I have not personally been to a therapist about this matter, but I would love it if my bf went to one. I think he could really benefit from hearing the reality of his situation from a more objective source. Sometimes I think he doesn't fully hear me when I talk to him about this and how serious it is, because I get put in the Nagging Girlfriend category.

If you're considering paying a visit to a therapist, I think it could only help you and improve your knowledge of your situation. I think most therapists who specialize in addiction get into it because they've seen it firsthand in their own lives, or because they genuinely want to help.
 

chromatic

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I first experienced ED during sex when I was 19. I wasn't at all sexually active and having just blown it with a beautiful girl during a weekend trip to Paris I returned home with a one-track mind to get to the bottom of my problem. After confiding in a sexually experienced friend, who'd never experienced ED, I decided to bite the bullet and visit a doctor. At the very least I expected to be prescribed a placebo, patted on the head and home to regain my mojo. But I was very surprised to find myself in a room with a pretty young female doctor who actually appeared a little embarrassed and uncomfortable that I'd come to her with my problem, and even seemed a little coy and suspicious that it was some kind of hugely inappropriate setup to flirt/seduce her (she flat-out refused to physically inspect me as soon as I explained my problem, something even I didn't feel was a necessary procedure). Her diagnosis was that it was probably a one-off, there was nothing to worry about, I was fit, young and healthy and it would probably all fix itself. Although it was a long time ago and well before a lot of these studies the Reboot community is so familiar with, there were no questions about porn or the like.

I was put off being physical with girls for a good year or two but in time my erections returned. Two years later I met a girl who I then had a six-year relationship with, but even in the first two months of that relationship I struggled to maintain an erection. Several months ago we broke up, and last month I spent my first night with a new girl who I'd agreed to have a casual relationship with. Again, our first time together and I couldn't get it up. We still had a great night doing other things, and I count myself lucky to have only been with girls that have understood that it happens sometimes. But ultimately it makes me a little concerned that this could just be an automatic thing my body/mind does the first few times being intimate with someone new. Hence me being here. But bringing it back to point, I wonder if my doctor that day might've taken me a little more seriously had she known that nine years later I'd still be experiencing these symptoms. I absolutely think the next step would've been psychiatric assistance.
 
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