ABSTRACT
Pornography has undergone a huge metamorphosis from early erotic imagery found in pamphlets, books and magazines, to professional or homemade films on DVD, to offerings. In fact, pornography is so commonplace that soon we will be unable to imagine a time when there were multiple obstacles to acquisition. Arousal patterns may be further intensified by the voyeuristic presentation of violent pornography, increasing susceptibility to escalation. The viewer may experience their libido diminishing as pornography takes the ‘sex’ out of sex. When a patient is at the stage of experiencing difficulties only with partnered sex there may be reluctance to admit that their ‘satisfactory pornography driven sexual experience’ may even be a factor. Sexual dysfunction recovery times seem to relate to pre-porn exposure to masturbation and sexual experience. If there has been a sexual template set prior to their compulsive pornography use then it can be re-awakened, as it will still exist within their limbic system memory.
