TGIFBTDW, EVERYONE! What’s that? You don’t know what TGIFBTDW means? Oh, well, it’s Thank God It’s the Friday Before a Three Day Weekend, OBVS. We’re gearing up for an extra-long weekend partying, seeing friends, and kicking off another summer as the world’s #1 casual dating site. What’s on your agenda? Hitting the club? Having a low-key barbecue? Or maybe sitting inside and jerking it until it’s time to go to work Tuesday morning?

Well, if the latter seems likely, you might want to reconsider and get yourself away from the computer. According to research by a Manchester psychologist, watching too much pornography could lead to premature erectile dysfunction in otherwise healthy young men!

Via Mancunian Matters:

Porn-induced erectile dysfunction (PIED) is a relatively new sexual issue affecting a generation of men who have grown up with unlimited access to explicit material.

Having unrestricted access to the maximum stimulus that pornography provides can lead to a number of sexual dysfunctions, according to psychosexual therapist Janet Eccles.

“Sex with a long-term partner might suffer because the porn user just isn’t excited enough anymore,” she explained.

“What gets lost here is the idea of one’s sexuality being for oneself and one’s chosen partner.”

While we’re totally pro-casual hook ups and #teamSINGLE, we think we get what Dr. Eccles is getting at. Too much porn could make you feel like you’re in a sexual relationship with your hand and whatever raunchy shit you can pull up on a laptop screen, instead of pursuing exciting and challenging real-life scenarios. When you can find any and all fantasies you could dream up with the click of a button, seeking out actual sexual relationships could fall to the back burner. NO BUENO, GUYS. We especially don’t like the quote from a PIED-suffer, who says “My porn and masturbation habits had ground my ‘poor little man’ into a desensitized, permanently flaccid, useless addition to my body that simply didn’t want or fancy real female attention.”

YIIIIIKES.

Let’s all make a vow to disconnect this long weekend and concentrate on the real world – friends, fun, and f*cking. Although we of course don’t count it if you wanna find someone on OBC… that’s totally the exception ;)