Dear reader, let me ask a question you probably won’t admit out loud: When’s the last time you really felt turned on? Not just stimulated, but present, hot, and in your body?
If your answer is “ehh…”, you’re not alone. We live in the throbbing center of overstimulation culture, where your brain is constantly being pinged by notifications, algorithms, TikTok thirst traps, doomscrolling, dick ratings, AI sex filters, and maybe, if there's time between lunch and rage tweets, another forced orgasm from a stranger on your feed.
And still... nothing's hitting like it used to. We’re talking full-blown digital arousal fatigue. We swipe right but feel less. We watch more but cum less. And somewhere between dopamine hits and Wi-Fi kinks, the orgasm is edging us emotionally, culturally, and sometimes physically.
So, we have to ask: are we too online to orgasm?
Let’s start with the facts: your attention span is collapsing. Thanks to short-form content on TikTok, Reels, Reddit sex threads, and 10-second porn previews, your brain has been trained to soak in content fast and unfeeling.
Porn is now consumed in snippets: 15 seconds of doggystyle there, 10 seconds of feet stuff here, rapid-cut, triple-speed, swipe. We’re not even arousing ourselves anymore. We’re just collecting stimuli and calling it pleasure. Gooning would have required A LOT more effort in the age of VHS.
This means actual foreplay, sensual buildup, eye contact, and all those juicy, slow-burning things our bodies used to crave start to feel annoying. Like buffering. Like something that’s getting in the way of orgasm, even though it’s literally the thing designed to help us get there.
The problem isn’t that we want too much… It’s that we can’t hold our attention on anything long enough to know what we want.
Add dating apps to the mix, and it gets messier. We’re in a world where you can have 17 sexual options in a single afternoon and not feel connected to a single person. We treat interest like inventory management. Spark a conversation, skim their profile, swipe again. Dating apps weren’t designed to help us feel. They were designed to help us engage. A lot. Constantly. In endless loops.
So, when it comes time to take that digital chemistry offline, the pressure’s sky-high and arousal becomes performative. If you’ve ever found yourself naked in someone’s bed thinking, “I’m turned on, but I’m not into this,” guess what: you’re not broken. Your brain’s just been trained wrong.
Here’s the real conflict: the body wants rhythm, slowness, sensation, and presence. But the internet wants fast clicks, constant novelty, and the compulsive illusion that what's next is always better.
So even when you're mid-fuck, there’s that part of your brain scrolling in the background. Could this be hotter? Should I be filming this? Maybe I’ll perform it better next time. And just like that, you’re mentally not even in the room.
Being too online to orgasm doesn’t mean you can’t get off. It means it’s getting harder to stay present long enough to actually feel it.
Okay, time to breathe. This isn’t permanent. The same algorithms that rewired your arousal can be untrained, and the same habits that made you numb can be rewired into rituals.
Start here:
These aren’t rules. They’re reminders. Your body is waiting. You just have to come home to it.
Being a sexual person in 2025 means navigating a chaotic loop of desire, distraction, and digital noise. And the truth is…
We’re overstimulated but under-satisfied.
We’re horny all the time, but less orgasmic than ever.
We watch more sex than ever, but feel less during our own.
If we're being honest, we are too online to orgasm; at least fully, deeply, memorably. But that doesn’t mean orgasms are over. It means we need to rethink what sex means when attention is the rarest resource we have. Because you can’t scroll your way to connection, and you can’t click your way to embodied pleasure.