Divorced men ‘too used to porn’ are ‘more likely’ to get erectile dysfunction

A sexual health expert has claimed divorced men are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction because they have become “too used to porn”.

Chartered psychologist Felix Economakis, who has worked in the NHS for eight years, also said these men have “negligent, absent or unsatisfactory” sex lives.

He even thinks drinking too much is causing these men problems with their performances in the sack.

Felix made these points after a report by London-based clinic Numan found that 80% of divorced men said they have experienced ED, reports FEMAIL.

The study, which was conducted by the Market Research Society, asked 1,000 divorced men in the UK if they had experienced a sexual performance problem.

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And four fifths of those men questioned admitted they had struggled with erectile dysfunction, known as impotence.

He explained: “The first reason is that they often tend to have either negligent, absent or unsatisfactory sex lives. That means they feel rather ‘de-skilled’ and not confident when it comes to the bedroom.”

Felix also claimed that if men become “wound up” about goals and work, it could also impact their performance during sex.

He added: “Instead of being a more carefree and spontaneous experience, to some men it can come across as yet more work.”

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And another factor could be the amount of X-rated video content that these men are watching.

Felix said: “Perhaps they have used porn as an outlet, which carries it’s own set of unhealthy habits when it comes to sex.

“Or perhaps they tend to drink too much first to unwind which also affects performance.”

Watching porn has already been identified as a problem for causing erectile dysfunction after a 2017 study found it causes men to become disinterested in sex.

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Presenting their findings at the American Urological Association’s annual meeting in Boston, the researchers accused porn of being as addictive as “cocaine”.

Study author Dr Matthew Christman said: “Sexual behaviour activates the same ‘reward system’ circuitry in the brain as addictive drugs, such as cocaine and methamphetamines, which can result in self-reinforcing activity, or recurrent behaviours.

“Internet pornography, specifically, has been shown to be a super normal stimulus of this circuitry, which may be due to the ability to continuously and instantaneously self-select novel and more sexually arousing images.”

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