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The article may be answering it's own question.

What could be causing it? Well, there are quite a few candidates: there’s evidence for correlations with obesity, diabetes, smoking, drinking, and lack of exercise, anxiety, and more; and the evidence for any of these is a lot stronger and a lot clearer than that for pornography consumption.

Based on my limited understanding of biology, CVD, downstream effects of insulin resistance, I would lean more towards environmental inputs rather than visual stimulation and psychosomatic effects. I significantly changed my environmental inputs 15 years ago and just speaking anecdotally, I've seen all the porn and do not have these described physical limitations.

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Anecdotally, watching porn increases my desire (and resulting frequency) for sex with my partner pretty substantially with no resulting ED issues.

But I'm pretty healthy. I lift, I do HIIT, I do long slow distance etc. throughout the week and I eat very clean by most people's standards.

I'm basically you. I am married, have been watching porn for a _long_ time, still have a good sex life and have never had any issues with ED. If anything, as I've got into my 30s, I've become even more horny than ever before! I also lift, HIIT, etc. (gym 3 times a week), am generally active, eat well, don't smoke, and I'm not overweight.

I would say the same, but recently, it became clear to me that my SO has little interest in making our sex life more interesting. Knowing that the exciting things I see in porn will probably never happen in my life has dramatically decreased my desire. The thought of sex is now poisoned by these sad and guilty thoughts that I probably would never have if it hadn't been for porn. I don't have ED, but the result is effectively the same.

> I significantly changed my environmental inputs 15 years ago

Can you share what environmental inputs you changed?

The classic confusion between correlation and causation:

> obesity, diabetes, smoking, drinking, and lack of exercise, anxiety

which often cause, or share causes with, pornography consumption.

> which often cause, or share causes with, pornography consumption.

I doubt there is substantial evidence for this statement.

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