An alarming 16 percent said they started watching before they were 12.Ħ4 percent report that their tastes in porn have become more extreme or deviant.Īmong 27- to 31-year-olds on NoFap: 19 percent suffer from premature ejaculation, 25 percent are disinterested in sex with their partner, 31 percent have difficulty reaching orgasm, and 34 percent experience erectile dysfunction.Īfter committing to no masturbation/porn, 60 percent of those on NoFap felt that their sexual functions had improved.Īnd 67 percent had an increase in energy levels as well as productivity.
59 percent report watching between four and fifteen (!!) hours of porn every week.Īlmost 50 percent of those on NoFap have never had sex in their lives, meaning their only experience with intimacy is purely digital.Ĥ2 percent of male college students report visiting porn sites regularly.ĥ3 percent of the NoFappers had developed a regular porn habit between the ages of 12 and 14. One in five people who regularly watch porn admitted to feeling controlled by their own sexual desires.ġ2 percent of NoFappers report watching five or more hours of Internet porn every week. Porn, after all, trains the viewer to expect constant newness. It’s known as the Coolidge Effect, or a tendency toward novelty-seeking behavior. Those who regularly found different mates were able to continue their arousal. Here are some of the reasons why it may be a good idea to stick to Netflix next time you open up your laptop:įor those addicted to porn, arousal actually declined with the same mate. While the results are not entirely conclusive, there are certainly some statistics that should give a moment’s pause. A recent survey of a Reddit community called NoFap, which is committed to abstaining from porn and masturbation, has helped researchers open the door to a better understanding of the effects of pornography on our lives. With such an inexhaustible supply of porn at our disposal, there is a growing concern that it is beginning to affect our brains, our relationships, and even our bodies (beyond, of course, your mother’s idle threats of blindness and hairy palms). Gay men are half as likely as straight men to. Scientists at Cambridge University recently studied the brain scans of porn addicts and found that they looked exactly like those of drug addicts. At least 5 percent of American men, I estimate, are predominantly attracted to men, and millions of gay men still live, to some degree, in the closet. Straight women and gay men likely see their friendships as safe spaces where they can have fun, be themselves, and engage in intimate conversations without fear of judgement. According to a website called, 420 million web pages are dedicated to porn, meaning the non-porn Internet roughly consists of.well, Wikipedia. Upon reviewing the 12 minutes of video footage, female participants also reported over 30 more comfort-related feelings toward their gay conversation partners.
With the ubiquity and easy access to porn these days, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that people are beginning to study the effects of it on our sex lives.