I am referring to the claim made by yourbrainonporn.com and also NoFap movement:
"It's hard to know exactly how many young men are suffering from porn-induced ED. But it's clear that this is a new phenomenon, and it's not rare."
According to one of the testimonials:
Thanks to NoFap I could at least get it up, and maintain an erection, but I could not come, and she was a little worried as to what was going on, but we persevered, and over the next day and week it got better, now it’s better than it has ever been. This stuff works!
I am also aware that there are psychologists who pooh-poohed the idea.
Two recent studies have been published by researchers who examined whether there truly is a potential epidemic of porn related erectile dysfunction. Prause and Pfaus published this study in Sexual Medicine, finding that porn use did not predict sexual dysfunction, but instead, predicted higher levels of sexual responsiveness.
So which is which? Is Porn Induced Erectile Dysfunction a real thing? If it's not, then how to explain the testimony above?
Could it be possible that although there is no correlationship between porn usage and Erectile Dysfunction on a general scale, but for certain people, porn usage does lead to Erectile Dysfunction?
Also, could it be that the usage of porn leads to ED for some, but helps to combat ED in others, and these two effects cancel out each other and thus result in weak or no correlationship on a general scale?