Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why might frequent p*rn with new images lead to dissatisfaction in real-life sex? #youtubeshorts #ed

7 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Anne Truong MD explains that novelty (new sexual images) increases reward value and has lasting effects on motivation, learning, and memory. She states that frequent viewing of internet pornography with novel images leads to stronger preference for novelty versus controls, increasing arousal to new images but making real-life partnered sex (which is less novel) less stimulating and less satisfying.

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Now listen to this. This is important. Novelty or new enhances the reward value and that has lasting effect on motivation, learning and memory. So what this means is that Internet porn shows stronger preference for new sexual images than healthy control or for those that doesn't watch Internet porn. And that essentially the more new images or novelty it, the more it affects their learning and memory. Essentially the more you watch porn and the newer the images, the more you get stimulated or arousal. But what it does is that in real life it's not new and it's not stimulating enough and therefore you're not getting the sexual satisfaction with partner sex or in real life sex.