It's 'Ok' To Watch Porn: It Might Even Make You Better In Bed, Study Says

New findings published in the journal Sexual Medicine actually suggest that watching porn can make men better lovers.

This is a bit surprising as previous studies have linked excessive porn indulgence to problems with getting or sustaining erections. However, new study results suggest quite the opposite. In fact, they suggest that porn could make men tigers in the bedroom.

Researchers examined data from 280 male volunteers who reported the average number of hours that they watched porn. Next, they noted how the answers to these responses varied from zero to 25.

This data also included results from 127 participants who had regular partners and completed the International Index of Erectile Function survey that asks men to rate their performance, reporting their level of sexual arousal after looking at heterosexual pornography in a lab.

"When we analyzed the data from these prior studies, we found that the men who had watched more sex films at home were more aroused when they watched sex films in the lab," researcher Nicole Prause, an associate research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry in the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, said in a news release.

"While one could object that this was expected since they like sex films, the result is important because clinicians often claim that men get desensitized by watching these films," she added. "They are responding more strongly to very vanilla erotica than the guys for whom the films are more novel. While this association doesn't establish a cause, it proves viewing erotica at home is not desensitizing and perhaps even sensitized the men to respond more strongly."

Furthermore, no link between watching porn and erectile dysfunction was found in sexually active men participating in the study. However, researchers did reiterate that several other issues may contribute to problems in the bedroom, such as performance anxiety, cardiovascular issues and/or side-effects from substance abuse.