Porn and Anxiety Are Destroying Men’s Sexual Performance

Jonathan Morris Schwartz
4 min readJul 16, 2024

Women are done playing the Damsel in Distress, an epidemic of erectile dysfunction is the result….but there’s hope

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When I grew up, sexual roles were unspoken but well-established.

The man always initiated sex, typically with a kiss, and then proceeded as far as the woman would allow. The woman was passive and strictly followed the man’s lead.

A strange yet purposeful delusion persisted where women would behave as if they were inexperienced vestal virgins, in part because they knew this turned men on.

A man’s pleasure mattered more than hers.

Men were dominant during sex.

Pornography was limited to magazines and 16-mm film, requiring a home movie projector to view, which most people didn’t own.

There were XXX peep shows but few men attended these public ejaculation factories.

Said plainly, there wasn’t an erectile dysfunction clinic on every corner, nor did boner pills rack in the billions of dollars they do today.

PORN:

I’ve never been turned on by porn. That is not to say I haven’t watched it.

My initiation to porn started with Debbie Does Dallas in 1978 when you had to watch intolerably bad…

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Jonathan Morris Schwartz

Jonathan Morris Schwartz is a speech-language pathologist writing about human relationships, love, politics, philosophy, and consciousness.