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It was revealed by Italian doctors in June that their recent scientific study has concluded that a link exists between pornography addiction and erectile dysfunction in young men. As stated by the study’s author, University of Padua sexual health specialist Carlo Foresta, nearly 70-percent of men in their twenties who requested medical assistance for ED during the study admitted to frequent use of online pornography. Additional information gathered from the test subjects implies that this issue may be a lot more prevalent than originally thought.

In the mind of a young man who participated in the study, “Guys will never openly discuss this with friends or co-workers, for fear of getting laughed out of town. But when someone tells their story on a health forum, there are always at least 50 or 100 replies from other guys who struggle with the same thing.” This type of feedback was prevalent from the subjects, and combined with additional discoveries by Dr. Foresta and his group, they seem to show that ED has become a silent epidemic among the youth.

How Does Pornography Use Cause ED?

The assertion of the Italian research team is that excessive use of online pornography leads to “hyper-stimulation” of young men’s sexual sensibilities and a “desensitization” of the brain’s mesolimbic dopamine pathway (in laymen’s terms, the brain’s pleasure centers). As one interviewee so bluntly put it, “Lots of guys, in their 20s or so, can’t get an erection anymore with a real girl”, mainly because ordinary sexual situations don’t generate the same levels of arousal as the graphic liaisons portrayed in erotic movies. Even more worrisome, this issue was linked to a drop in condom use by young men who believed that they were unable to achieve an erection when wearing one.

Findings from the study conclusively found that the episodes of erectile dysfunction in young men were almost always preceded by stretches of increasingly intense pornography use – in terms of both the volume and nature of the material watched. This observation, in addition to the withdrawal indicators shown by patients after their direct exposure to the material ended (foremost among them, urgent cravings and a complete loss of sexual libido), further bolstered the theory that the cases of impotence were related to the pornography addiction.

Can This Form of ED Be Cured??

It was decided by Dr. Foresta’s group that cases of impotence attributed to pornography addiction are completely reversible – but the process is not a quick one.

As a matter of fact, the most-effective approach to treatment demands a withdrawal period of up to several months through which the patient abstains from strong sexual stimulation such as masturbation.

Consistently, however, this approach did enable the test participants to gain back full erectile health (typically within eight weeks), including a healthy sex drive, and the capability of enjoying mutually-satisfying sex with a partner. The greatest degree of success was enjoyed by patients who, when previously consulting with physicians, had been told that there was “nothing wrong” with them physiologically. To sum it up, it seems as if the best treatment for erectile dysfunction in young men, at least in occurrences involving overuse of pornography, is abstinence.

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