Hi All,
this is a subject that is bothering me too. I didn't want to post on it until I had finished my researches, but ForrestG forced my hand (so to speak
).
@Forrest do you watch a lot of porn? If so read on....
I have had two sessions of punting with a several years break. In the first session, despite my inexperience, I could pop with the right woman...I'm very much the vanilla GFE type, so had 3 or 4 good WGs then a disaster with someone I took an instant dislike to.
I didn't punt for a few years then came back to it late last year. I've basically had difficulties getting an erection and coming.
So I took some viagra (mail order from Superdrug - as recommended by UKP, although ASDA is apparently cheaper). This made it difficult to pop.
But in the gap time I'd got to watching a lot of porn -
a porn addiction and with my home cinema etc, P2P, I can download pretty spiffy porn anytime I like - it's not like you are leering at a glob of pinkish pikels juddering about which it was a few years ago online!
I believe I have got PIED - Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction. It's becoming widespread. This site explains it really well
External Link/Members Only I recommend you take a look at it. if you have symptoms like watching lots of porn, being able to come with the porn, hard "death grip" masturbation (which doesn't feel like a woman), then difficulties with real sex, you may have the disorder - it's curable.
Basically - you can train your brain only to respond to porn and off women. I think that's been what's happened to me. I've got the symptoms.
Essentially like any addiction you have to go cold turkey on the porn and let your body recover to normal functioning. Perversely the younger you are, the more you can be affected. Old gits like me who grew up long before video porn can't affect their brains as much.
OK, that was the depressing bit. I really would suggest that anybody reading this post cuts out the porn - not because I'm a moralist - but because it does hit the stimulation pathways in your brain and trains them to respond to the wrong stimuli.
I have virtually stopped watching porn. I don't think I am fully recovered yet and I haven't had the money to go to a WG and test out my theories.
PART 2: the Research Programme
I have always felt that a bit of stimulant boosting would be good in the Performance anxiety on a punt situation.
I am a big taker of all sorts of nutrients, vitamins, herbs, and have done for years. So I have been investigating the various pro-sexual nutrients you can take, from herbs to yohimbine to arginine. I decided that as Viagra was suboptimal, I would do this in a scientific manner and note the dose and effects and publish here. Unfortunately I haven't started it with real sex, just masturbation. So its very much at the preliminary stages. Certainly L-Arginine 1- 4 grams has an effect with me.
Arginine is pretty safe. I've been using it for years and on occasion taken massive doses when recovering from serious injury, 20 g or more. I'd be interested in any feedback - take it on an empty stomach with water or juice (not milk) as protein will impair it crossing the Blood/Brain barrier. For larger doses I use pure powder but you can get it in capsules in health shops.
I plan to continue the programme and report when I have any useful results. I regret this is a premature announcement but I felt I had to respond to the posting as it is possible other UKP members have or are developing PIED. Please read the material on
External Link/Members Only as it is quite a sobering analysis.