Being the partner of someone with PPU can be heartbreaking and or devastating. Nights of crying. Wondering if your good enough. Trying to understand the feeling of needing to compete with whats being viewed on the screen. I as a chubby 50 year old female, who has lost weight and is flabby in several areas, fully understands this feeling. With an ex husband and with a partner or two since who have desired to watch porn instead of have sex with me, i get it. I have nothing against porn watching once in a while. But if it takes the place or is instead of being sexually intimate with your person, there is where I have a problem.
Signs or symptoms of Problematic Pornography Use
A person might be having PPU if they persistently have an uncontrollable or intense urge to use pornography even when it impairs functioning or relationships.
- feelings of distress or guilt about pornography use
- a decrease in the quality of sexual intimacy with a partner
- reduced sexual drive when not using pornography
- reduced genital sensitivity
- delayed or reduced ability to orgasm
- pornography-induced erectile dysfunction
- delayed ejaculation
- brain fog
- feeling physically or mentally exhausted
- difficulty becoming motivated for everyday tasks
- new or worsening mental health problems, anxiety and/or depression
- problems with functioning or performance at work
- sexual violence toward other people, such as a partner
A person may also find that they focus on different stimuli when consuming pornography. For example, they may have multiple tabs open on the computer that they move between in one sitting. A person may also have an uncanny amount of external drives loaded with porn to keep the "tabs" under control on their computer or laptop. They may also have an abnormal amount of porn stored in places around their home and porn taken with previous partners that they have a problem deleting or getting rid of.
These are just a few items to keep in mind if your sex life or you or your partners sex drive is gone or has faded away and there is porn useage by either
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