I am a nineteen year old male, pretty healthy, but suffering for some sort of ED at the moment. It's not a full-on ED but very close. Whenever I am with this girl I recently started seeing, I would get random erections (holding her hand, holding her by the waist, etc). I sometimes get a hard on from kissing her, but not always. The other day, I received oral from her, and unfortunately, I had difficulty getting hard for the first three minutes. Recently (the last month or so), my erections have been weaker or non existent. No longer wake up with morning wood which is just petrifying and very upsetting. At first I thought this was physical. I spent my last few months under lots of stress, very little sleep, and no exercise. For the past 2 weeks, I've been sleeping well, had a huge decrease in stress, and have been exercising. However, my problems are still persisting. I also started eating foods such as almonds and eggs more frequently which raise libido, but nothing seems to help. I'm not as big of a horndog as I was ,but I still feel lustful from time to time, but I can't seem to 'get it up'. Here's where the porn part comes in: during my most stressful times last semester, I would fap alot. I would do it like 2-3 times per day every couple of days, sometimes every day. Half my faps were from fantasy and the other half were from porn. I'm 19 now, and started fapping to porn at 17. I wouldn't say I was ever addicted to porn though, even during the times of stress. I always viewed women as equals and not sex objects, and this still holds true now; porn never changed my perception of women. However, I feel as though porn might have gotten my head fucked up somehow and given me porn induced erectile dysfunction. What do you think? During that period of stress and faps which I mentioned earlier, I would easily get off faster to porn than to fantasy which might be a sign of dependence. Maybe my dick is just tired from my relentless fapping? Regardless of whether it is porn induced or not, I started the reboot a week ago, and so far have had no relapses and no yearning to go back to porn (because I've never been addicted). Do you guys think that what I have is actually porn induced though? Please help me with your advice and good luck to all of you!
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Do you think I have Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction?
- Thread starter grego
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Sounds like its a strong possibility, you've conditioned yourself to only be responsive to images of porn and not real women in real life. You must stop watching porn for good, just get away from it and from what I've read your libido will eventually return to normal and your sexual desires will be more realistic, I'm 21 and in the same situation.
If you have harder, more consistent erections to porn than you do to real life stimulation, you have PIED and a reboots is recommended. It does not always take the same form. Some people just cannot get up without porn, some people have the inability to ejaculate without porn, etc.
My own experience was that I'd sometimes have difficulty getting hard or maintaining an erection with my girlfriend. Other times, I'd be able to go crazy for over 40 minutes and not even be close to ejaculation. Also, getting hard after ejaculating was impossible. With porn, I'd be consistently rock solid and could get off 3x in 10 minutes if I wanted to. And forget masturbating without porn. That was impossible.
Also, I would sometimes get hard from hugging her, kissing her, or seeing her walk around the house nude. But it was a matter of whether I could maintain it if we started messing around.
My own experience was that I'd sometimes have difficulty getting hard or maintaining an erection with my girlfriend. Other times, I'd be able to go crazy for over 40 minutes and not even be close to ejaculation. Also, getting hard after ejaculating was impossible. With porn, I'd be consistently rock solid and could get off 3x in 10 minutes if I wanted to. And forget masturbating without porn. That was impossible.
Also, I would sometimes get hard from hugging her, kissing her, or seeing her walk around the house nude. But it was a matter of whether I could maintain it if we started messing around.
dc6 said:If you have harder, more consistent erections to porn than you do to real life stimulation, you have PIED and a reboots is recommended. It does not always take the same form. Some people just cannot get up without porn, some people have the inability to ejaculate without porn, etc.
My own experience was that I'd sometimes have difficulty getting hard or maintaining an erection with my girlfriend. Other times, I'd be able to go crazy for over 40 minutes and not even be close to ejaculation. Also, getting hard after ejaculating was impossible. With porn, I'd be consistently rock solid and could get off 3x in 10 minutes if I wanted to. And forget masturbating without porn. That was impossible.
Also, I would sometimes get hard from hugging her, kissing her, or seeing her walk around the house nude. But it was a matter of whether I could maintain it if we started messing around.
From your personal experience, how long did it take you to successfully achieve reboot?
Hard to say. I'm 70 days in now and I'm seeing someone new and I get rock hard just thinking about our first kiss, something she said to me or a smile she gave me when we recently went out. And I mean like 9 or 10/10 solid and it stuck around for a while afterward.
I don't think I've succeeded yet, though. My take on this is that rebooting is a constant thing. It's a lifestyle change where you decide to do without artificial sexual stimulation basically forever. The only time I would even consider watching porn now is if I was with a girl who wanted to introduce it into our sex life. But I have so much sexual energy right now, I don't think that would be necessary.
I don't think I've succeeded yet, though. My take on this is that rebooting is a constant thing. It's a lifestyle change where you decide to do without artificial sexual stimulation basically forever. The only time I would even consider watching porn now is if I was with a girl who wanted to introduce it into our sex life. But I have so much sexual energy right now, I don't think that would be necessary.