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Stop blaming pornography for erectile dysfunction.

Sure, recent headlines have proclaimed that porn is ruining the sex lives of an entire generation — but a team of researchers at Concordia University and UCLA say their new study shows that simply isn’t true.

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If this sounds like a way of giving men carte blanche to view all the pornography they want, no holds barred, the researchers swear it isn’t.

They just wanted to bring some science back into the burgeoning argument, stemming from a Psychology Today article a few years ago, that many young men are experiencing erectile dysfunction (ED) because their constant exposure to lurid images and films has desensitized them.

This has sparked a trend for men to “reboot” — that is, abstain from porn for several months to improve their sex lives and eliminate their ED. (After all, pornography is ubiquitous in this digital world; it’s been estimated that at least 25 per cent of Internet searches are about porn and kids start viewing porn online, on average, at age 11.)