TLDR: Watching pornography while pumping can help many men stay hard, maintain an erection, and maximize their in-pump gains. However, for those men aiming to reduce their porn usage and exposure, there are other effective ways to stay hard during pumping sessions.
Do You Need To Watch Porn While Pumping for Optimal Gains?
This is a very common question and topic of discussion in the pumping community.
Short answer: No.
You don't need to watch porn while pumping for optimal gains.
While staying hard does improve gains, there are other ways to maintain an erection during a pumping session such as viewing or watching other types of media that's not pornography, performing intermittent pumping, and other stimulation and arousal methods.
What's the Purpose of Staying Hard While Pumping?
Staying hard while pumping allows you to optimize its effectiveness and produce greater gains.
When the penis is becoming erect, it's filling the penile chambers with blood and there is a outward flow into the penis.
Similarly, a penis pump is drawing blood into the penis chambers via negative pressure.
So if you are aroused, stimulated, and producing a consistent hard erection, plus using a penis pump to pull blood into the penile chambers, you're essentially using two (2) different systems to increase blood in the penis which will promote bigger and better expansion beyond its normal size and encourage tissue growth over time.
You're basically using one internal method (obtaining a natural erection) and one external method (a penis pump) at the same time to draw blood into the penis.
Additionally, maintaining an erection helps ensure that the pressure created by the pump is distributed more evenly which can improve comfort and reduce the risk of injury.
Lastly, not only will long-term gains be improved, but temporary short-term gains will also be increased. For men looking to pump before sex, maintaining an erection while pumping will increase your temporary gains as well.
Other Types of Media To Help Stimulate an Erection
In order for men to have and maintain erection, they normally need some type of external stimuli.
While men can get random erections throughout the day or while they sleep, these erections are unpredictable, unreliable, and impossible to try to align with a pumping session.
Therefore, if you want an erection during a pumping session, it will most likely have to be elicited or stimulated somehow.
While pornography is generally the easiest way to get and maintain a rock hard erection, many men are looking for other ways as they recognize its detrimental effects.
Instead of pornography, some other types of media and stimuli that can help stimulate arousal include:
- Photos and Videos of Partner
- Consensual photos and videos of your partner are a great type of media to watch for arousal and producing an erection during pumping.
- Erotic Stories or Books
- Producing arousal via reading and not via visual stimulation is a great way to engage your imagination and other senses.
- Sensual Movies or Television Shows
- Watching sensual movies or television shows provides stimulation without crossing over into explicit pornography. It can also allow you to kill 2 birds with 1 stone if you are watching a television show or movie you already wanted to watch.
- Social Media Content and Personalities
- Certain social media personalities may be attractive and sexually appealing and watching their public content can help stimulate arousal.
Intermittent Pumping
Intermittent pumping is another effective substitute for pornography because it helps maintain an erection naturally through physical stimulation and variation in sensation/pressures.
We wrote a comprehensive article on intermittent pumping if you want to learn more about it here: Intermittent Pumping Guide.
Intermittent pumping involves periods of high-intensity pressure pumping and periods of rest.
Cycling through these periods of high pressure and rest creates drastic changes in sensation that promote physical stimulation and hence arousal and greater erections.
Allowing the blood in the penis to deplete and empty during periods of rest, and then re-pumping to high pressures, also allows blood to circulate freely in a natural blood flow dynamic.
By mimicking these natural patterns, intermittent pumping keeps the penile tissues engaged and responsive, making it easier to maintain hardness without relying on external media.
Intermittent pumping also helps prevent numbness or over-pumping since the periods of high-intensity pumping are very short.
Naturally, since intermittent pumping requires a lot of manual and present maneuvering, the pumper will stay engaged and focused on the session which can help maintain the erection as well.
Physical Methods to Produce an Erection While Pumping
There are some physical methods you can use to help get an erection before and at the beginning of a pumping session and during a session.
Physical Touch
Simple physical touch whether it's masturbating to an erection or other penis enlargement techniques like jelqing or manual stretching, can help stimulate an erection before pumping which can last into the session.
In fact this should be the minimum for producing an erection during a pumping session - ensuring you're hard going into the pump.
Kegels
While you are in the pump, kegeling can also help push blood into the penile chambers. But as always be careful when you kegel in the chamber since your penis will be under pressure and you don't want to impose too much additional force.
Vibrator
Another option is attaching a vibrator to the outside of the cylinder to utilize minor sensations at the base of the penis which might help physically stimulate the penis and maintain an erection.
Why is Pornography Bad for Staying Hard While Pumping?
Pornography can be bad as a stimulus for staying hard while pumping because of its detrimental effects on arousal and sensitivity.
Many men find that porn psychologically and physically desensitizes them to real life arousal due to its intense and highly stimulating content as well as its expansive variety of content.
Pornography can add to performance anxiety due to unrealistic expectations regarding penis size, sexual performance, and partner experiences as well.
Moving away from pornography can lead to healthier sexual practices and a more fulfilling sex life for you and your partners.
Final Thoughts
There are many ways to stimulate arousal and produce an erection during pumping to enhance gains that don't involve the severe detrimental long term effects of pornography.
Other forms of stimulating media, intermittent pumping, and physical sensation are some of the main ways men can stay hard in the pump in healthier ways that will lead to greater enlargement gains and long term sexual satisfaction.
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