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Watching porn could be damaging men’s ability to perform sexually, new research reveals.

The study, by psychologist Simone Kühn, says that watching porn causes men’s brains to release dopamine into their system as the unconscious body believes it is having sex (but of course, it isn’t).


However the ability to instantly switch to a new porn film as soon as a man’s ‘excitement’ drops a little has led to fellas getting an overload of dopamine – something that would rarely happen naturally.



The study also argues that porn doesn’t include many aspects of sex (such as courtship, touching, emotional connection or smells), so when a man finally gets with a real human partner, he will often have trouble achieving an erection, and many men were found to fantasize about porn during sex in order to climax.

‘Just looking a Facebook, honestly’ (Picture: LuckyBusiness)

Simone Kühn said: ‘Regular consumption of pornography more or less wears out your reward system.’

The study doesn’t suggest that men should stop masturbating, but rather points out that the over-consumption of porn can lead to people’s perception of sex to be quite different from the real thing, leading to it being less enjoyable and sometimes less… well… possible.

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