What is the relationship between pornography and sexual dysfunction? Ever heard of NOFAP? Come here and I’ll explain! Pornography addiction is not the same pathology as sex addiction, which is called Nymphomania. In compulsion for sex, the person has a lot of libido, wanting to have sex all the time, even putting themselves at risk. In pornography addiction, the person masturbates several times, but often does not have the libido even to have sex with his wife.
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Frequent use of pornography can change a man’s sexual desire, potentially to the extent that he is no longer aroused by real-life sexual interactions. This fact appears to be at the heart of the cause of porn-induced erectile dysfunction, which affects healthy young men in their late teens and early 20s, due to masturbating to pornography too often.
“NOFAP”?
The main objective of “nofap” is to help men addicted to pornography to break free from this dependence, since pornography addiction is proven to cause erectile dysfunction/sexual impotence. Guidance and a supportive community are two great tools for overcoming any addiction. The secondary objective of this group is to show the benefits of abstinence from masturbation. And how do we know that our masturbation has become an addiction? Symptoms are similar to any other addiction:
- The person cannot stop seeing or opening the cell phone and not accessing erotic content;
- Has cravings or anxiety when in an environment that does not allow access to pornography;
- Loses interest in subjects or activities other than pornography;
- Loses interest even in having sex or looking for real stimuli with another person;
- You can’t stop even knowing that you waste time and that it’s not good for your mental health;
- He has tolerance for conventional sex videos, that is, he always needs greater stimuli, with more daring or even grotesque videos.
Are you interested in the community and want to share your story and meet more people who go through the same addiction? Meet the community: www.nofap.com and www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/
REHABILITATION OF PORNOGRAPHY USERS
If you train your brain for pornography, this is how it will be conditioned to pleasure. So when you’re with a real woman, your “pornified brain” isn’t sending enough signal below your belt to be aroused, triggering impotence. It is interesting to note that these patients are often no longer responsive to the use of erectile dysfunction medications. BECAUSE? Because the root of the problem is not in the penis, but in the brain.
The first step to overcoming this problem is to stay away from pornography for at least a few months and consider approaching a sexologist. On my page @tammyy_duarte I address topics about sexuality, relationships and other taboos in order to make the conversation about sexuality and problems faced more commonplace, so that we can deal with our intimate issues in a natural way.
Pornography addiction can be caused by different factors, including family, in a family marked by hysteria, superstition, hyperprotection and extremely strict rules, an escape is needed, which can arise through masturbation. At the same time that there is pleasure and escape from family problems, there is also masturbation experienced with great guilt and fear, using the words of Alexande Portnoy, in the book “The Portnoy complex”: “Now just imagine the torments that my conscience put me through all those handjobs! The guilt, the fears – the terror instilled to the very depths of me!”
However, it is also important to underline a factor that contributes to masturbation being a problem: the fact that there are still multiple myths around it. It is essential to clear away the prejudices that have been built up over the years and naturalize masturbation as a perfectly adjusted and even beneficial behavior, when it doesn’t take on an obsessive form.
Treatment for pornography addiction is similar to other addictions, acting a lot on compulsive / dependent behavior. There are medications that reduce the intensity of the pleasure generated by pornography, reducing the desire to search for it, medication that controls cravings or anxiety, or even medication that controls compulsion. And more than getting out of addiction, the goal is to find other healthy pleasures in life so that the brain does not escape to pornography.
PORNOGRAPHY AND TANTRA
It is not exclusively male, many women who consume porn movies face frustrations in their relationships with their partners because they do not find the virility they see in the film.
Pornography brings us fantasy and a great level of excitement on screen, we are excited by the screen that transmits pornography, but that in our body nothing is actually happening, our mind is stimulated and our body is discouraged, the proposal is to use this high level of excitement so that with breathing this excitement permeates the body and is not just in the field of ideas, with this sexual energy being expanded to the body we can expand and overcome limits.
Tantric practice unites sexuality, love and spirituality that brings the person closer to his essence, has the purpose of being in tune with the inner nature, and by taking sex to its place in fact, as something divine, because this sexual energy, the so-called libido, is our most potent source of energy, it is our vital energy – we are led to supraconsciousness. Through body and energy self-knowledge, it is possible to enjoy the full potential of our creative energy, life energy.
After releasing blockages, sexual energy becomes more expansive, it is possible to experience the connection with sex and the heart that transforms the way you relate to yourself and to others, without having to resort to the world for the ideas that pornography offers. , because your body will be awake to real sensations, real connections. Do you want to know more about how to experience your own energy and learn about the different ways it can move? See my page @ tantraterapia21.