culled from:pulse.com
The average man in the 21st century is believed to spend 40 minutes a week watching pornography which adds up to three entire months during his lifetime.
In
the past, studies have suggested such consumption is harmful, with the
rise in porn viewing often linked to a decrease in desire for genuine
sexual encounters.
For example, in his book The Brain That Changes Itself, the psychiatrist Norman Doidge
writes that his patients who watched porn experienced “increasing
difficulty in being turned on by their actual sexual partners, though
they still considered them attractive.” These patients said they had to
fantasise about porn scenes to get turned on.
However, a
new study suggests that porn consumption by males may not have such a
detrimental affect on their appetite or capacity for sex.
Scientists at the University of California asked 280 men to record their porn viewing habits while tracking their libido.
They found that there was their a positive correlation between the amount of time spent viewing porn and the desire to have sex.
Men
who watched no porn were found to score just over 40 on the
researcher's arousal matrix, in contrast, men who did watch porn scored
over 50.
Those who watched more than two hours of
porn per week were found to have the highest level of arousal. They had
more desire for 'solo-sex' and sex with a partner.
"This
pattern suggests that those who view more visual sexual stimuli (VSS)
are likely to have a higher sexual drive," researchers Nicole Prause and James Pfaus wrote in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.
"Sexual
arousal responsivity may not be impaired by viewing more VSS at home,
as it actually was related to stronger desire and sexual arousal in two
of the three relationships tested."
The study also
looked at instances of erectile dysfunction. They found that "erectile
functioning with a partner was not related to the hours of VSS viewed
weekly".
While the results of the study point to a
definite link between porn consumption and sexual desire, they should
not be taken as definitive.
The men who were asked were all in their 20s, so the results do not offer insight to a broad range of ages.
It's
also arguable that men who watch pornography do so due to a higher sex
drive than those who don't, so it is natural that they should have more
desire for real life encounters.
Sex is beneficial to our health so, that means porn is beneficial to our health?
What do you guys think about this new claim.
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