Porn Addiction and Erectile Disaster

Maybe not as tragic as you think!

James Finn
James Finn - The Blog

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Dear Aunty Jimothy,

I’m a 20 year old gay guy who watches PornHub a lot. Every day. Some of my friends say that jerking off to porn is really bad for you, and that it can make you not enjoy real sex, and make you have trouble getting hard. Is this true? Because that might have happened to me yesterday with a hot guy.

Jackin’ in Jersey

Dear Jack,

Child, you asked such an important question! Aunty Jimothy is straining at the bit to get to this one. *cough* Seriously, masturbation is a fraught topic for lots of people, and for lots of reasons. There’s lots of good information out there, plus lots of really bad information.

This old Aunty has been around the block, so let a salty old harridan try to break it down for you!

First, can we get the hoary old myths out of the way? People repeat them all the time! Aunty has been deluged with questions about some of these, so bear with me, dear, as I mount my soapbox.

Here are some of the false claims that people have been spreading about masturbation since forever. Aunty heard many of these as a child, and honey, that was back in the Jurassic!

It is NOT true that masturbation…

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James Finn
James Finn - The Blog

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.