The things people noticed, the conversations they avoided, and the changes they’re still working on.
I was hard as a rock with porn and limp with my girlfriend, and I blamed her. Then she borrowed my laptop and saw my browser history. Two months in, my libido is at zero.
Read the story : I blamed her for my soft erections until she found the porn on my laptopAt 24, my friends think I sleep with a different woman every week. In reality, since nineteen I've gone soft with every woman, yet porn always works.
Read the story : Everyone thinks I'm a ladies' man, but porn took my erectionsAfter five years of nothing but porn, I met the woman I'd waited for. I get erections at night, but with her they fail when it matters.
Read the story : I finally met the woman of my life and couldn't get hardI quit porn the night I met her. The limpness came back fast, the pills worked only at the start, and now I'm wondering about pumps and injections.
Read the story : Viagra helped at first, then stopped helpingWhen I finally had a girlfriend, sex was nothing like what I'd watched for years. Now she wants me, and I want porn.
Read the story : I stopped wanting sex with my girlfriend, but not pornIn bed with women I drifted off, lost my erection or needed porn from memory. Five days into quitting, my libido is gone and I'm counting on it returning.
Read the story : I had to replay porn in my head to get hard with herLess than a year earlier I'd had normal erections with women. Three weeks off porn, quitting feels almost too easy, but my drive hasn't come back.
Read the story : At twenty I realised I no longer reacted to women at allMy erection held the whole time, but nothing we tried let me come. My girlfriend thought she didn't turn me on enough. I suspected my grip.
Read the story : I could stay hard with my girlfriend but never finishOrdinary porn stopped working, so I went further. At 23, with no girlfriend and a failed night with a woman, I didn't know what I was anymore.
Read the story : I drifted into trans porn and started to question who I wasAfter two years of erection problems, therapy and a relapse, I'm off porn again, but my morning erections haven't returned and the flatline drags on.
Read the story : I'm still waiting for my morning erections to come backMy first time with the girl I love failed because I couldn't get fully hard. Now I'm three weeks without masturbating and unsure what's normal.
Read the story : I couldn't get fully hard on my first time with the girl I loveMonths off porn brought back my morning erections, but not my nerve. Fear of finishing too fast kept me out of bed, and the pills only gave me a headache.
Read the story : I carried two pills in my wallet like a man of seventyAt 26 I had never had intercourse. With every partner my body didn’t respond; alone with porn it did. Fear and loneliness kept pulling me back.
Read the story : I could get hard with porn, but never with a partnerI'm 31. After a breakup my porn kept escalating and my erections failed with each new woman. Now I'm falling for someone and still can't.
Read the story : My porn drifted to trans videos, and with women I went softI'm 29 and had been off porn for months. Then I had sex: a half-hearted erection, fifteen seconds, no pleasure at all. I don't know what's wrong.
Read the story : Eight months off porn, and I was still only half hardA few months after I started masturbating to porn, my orgasms with my boyfriend stopped. I blamed him and the relationship, not the hentai.
Read the story : I could only climax alone, never with my boyfriendWell into quitting porn, I started getting close to my new girlfriend. Afterwards I'd feel foggy and flat for hours, almost like after a porn marathon.
Read the story : Being intimate with my girlfriend left me foggy, like after a porn bingePorn never seemed to hurt sex with my wife. After the divorce I went limp with new partners, the pills did nothing, and even hard I couldn't finish.
Read the story : After my divorce, my erection became a lotteryAt 32 I quit porn overnight. Five months on I feel more confident, but my libido keeps returning and vanishing, and I don't know why.
Read the story : My libido came back for two weeks, then disappeared againTwenty years of masturbation as my fastest release. Then short erections, avoided penetration, and medication that helped until my blood pressure rose.
Read the story : At 32, my erections got shorter and I began avoiding sex