15 Ways Porn Is Ruining Your Sex Life

2. Porn affects your brain the same way drugs do – Porn can send your brain into a “binge cycle” the same way drugs do. That can create a situation in which your brain only wants porn and you become insatiable.

3. You Might Get Addicted – There’s dispute over if porn addiction is real or not, but there are some who believe you can get addicted to it. And addiction is never good.

4. Porn Sets Up Unreasonable Expectations For Women’s Bodies – Seeing women with fake breasts and large butts in porn can lead men to believe that all women look that way. That sets up unreasonable expectations for their sex lives and potential partners.

5. Porn Sets Up Unreasonable Expectations For Women’s Sexual Performance – Porn sets up an expectation that your girl is going to let you put it in her butt then in her mouth then in her ear then scream at the top of her lungs in pleasure. And if she doesn’t, some men feel disappointed. Porn sex isn’t remotely normal sex and if you expect it to be then you’re setting your woman up for a stressful encounter.

6. Most Porn Positions Are Actually Uncomfortable – Most of the positions in porn are uncomfortable for the people in the video. The positions are really there for the cameras to get the best angles instead of what’s actually pleasurable. Trying to recreate the positions can be painful for all parties involved.

7. It’s Harder To Get…Hard – A Cambridge study showed that 50% of men aged 25 had a harder time getting erections to physical contact than they did with porn.

8. It Makes You Less Romantic – Porn creates scenarios where women and men are always ready to have sex at the drop of a hat. So men and women can be influenced into thinking that it’s easy to get a woman in bed. But, um, it’s not.

9. Men Who Stop Watching Porn Have Reported Improved Sex Lives – The research here has been tricky because, well, there aren’t quite enough men who don’t watch porn to conduct a decent study. But if you scour message boards and Reddit then you’ll see men who have stopped watching porn having better sex lives.

10. Your Relationship Overall Suffers – A study surveying women whose partners watch porn noticed that their overall relationships suffered the more their men watched porn.

11. Porn Makes Women Feel The Need To Compete – Sex is about feeling comfortable and acting naturally. But porn has such freaky and high standards that women sometimes feel the need to step their games up to unreasonable levels to meet crazy expectations. It’s just too much pressure. Some women like missionary and a few other things so don’t make her hang from the ceiling with a gag.

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12. It Can Make Men Less Likely To Pursue Women – Here’s one thing porn can’t do: tell you no. So it allows men to find a place where they won’t get rejected. So who cares about the girl in the club? If she might say no, then screw her. You can just go home and watch porn and everything is fine.

13. Men Can Go On For Too Long – The big sex myth is that there’s no such thing as having sex for “too long.” Nah. Sometimes you gotta get it over with. However since some men watch so much porn that they achieve orgasms only from watching, it takes them longer to finish in sex. And that can be a bad thing.

14. Some Men Actually Prefer Porn To Sex – Yeah. That’s not good.

15. Porn Can Create Low Self-Esteem In Women – One study shows that girlfriends, wives and male partners feel lower self-esteem when their men admit to watching a ton of porn.