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>> In this day of 24h/24 porn accessible online it stands to reason that would be a major contributor in the ED problem.

What?

I am confused by your statement. Are you saying porn causes ED? I would casually think that would mean most men would have ED :)

A quick search of the web [1][2][3] shows several Psychology and also Medical papers showing porn does not cause ED. Wondering (if I am reading your statement correctly) where you correlate porn use to ED. I think that would be newsworthy.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201908...

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/202201...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-022-00596-y

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There are some studies that claim there is a link:

- Associations Between Online Pornography Consumption and Sexual Dysfunction in Young Men: Multivariate Analysis Based on an International Web-Based Survey: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8569536/

- Is Internet Pornography Causing Sexual Dysfunctions? A Review with Clinical Reports: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5039517/

While there are others which claim there may be a weak link but still inconclusive:

- Pornography and Sexual Dysfunction: Is There Any Relationship?: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00380-z

> While there are others which claim there may be a weak link but still inconclusive

You say that but then link to a broad meta study that is conclusive that no strong relationship exists .. ie. there's no signal, just noise.

    Recent Findings: Twenty-eight studies directly related to the issue were identified, and another 23 studies were used as supporting material

    Summary: Claims of a strong relationship between pornography use and sexual dysfunction are generally unfounded, both by the findings of studies and/or by misinterpretations of them.

Some things are so obviously true that only a team of academics could convince themselves otherwise.

The main factor that I'm aware of is hyperstimulation. There's the mental effect from exposure to increasingly extreme and perverse categories of porn (pedophilia, AGP/sissy, interracial, bestiality, BDSM, etc) "numbing" porn-sick men to healthy sexual stimuli, as well as the physical effects of overstimulation in the form of "death grip syndrome" where these men become so accustomed to their hands that nothing else can do the job.

These factors, combined with the lowered confidence and shame associated with porn addiction, intuitively also lead to anxiety-related performance issues.

I don't think extreme and perverse categories are necessary at all.

I also think your list is weird. Pedophilia is dimetral to a normal relationship.

Why interracial? If you are in such a relationship, you can live it out.

> Some things are so obviously true that only a team of academics could convince themselves otherwise.

Ah, yes. I feel it must be so, so no need for evidence and of course any evidence that exists otherwise must be false.

Porn is how the insidious communists impurify and drain our precious bodily fluids.

That, and watching too many movies from 1964 on the intertubes.

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