Do you ever get anxious during sex? How does it affect you? (Part 1)

Yes, before I get into the bedroom I can feel the panic kicking in. What happens if I cant…

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Always. Worrying about going limp and try to avoid sex even when I lust after the idea of sexual encounters I worry that I will go soft

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Loss of an erection.Speeding up to ejaculate.Depression sets.

yes, but I feel like recently its because I masturbate too often, then when the real situation comes its difficult for me to stay hard.

Yes. Every time

I’m always worried it won’t work, I had low T and have since got on treatment for that. My body is ready but I spend a lot of my day worrying if it will work or not

Because I struggle with erections

I get anxious during sex because I’ve had issues from the first time I had sex where I could t get it up properly. Since then I’ve always had it in the back of my mind. It makes me feel useless and ashamed.

I get anxious and start to feel disconnected. I find my self thinking about every little thing I do instead of the current physical sensations and it takes me out of the moment, and alot of times I lose my erection.

I get anxious every time. The thought of failing to get an erection often lowers sexual drive. I find myself watching my penis and not focusing on my partner. Then, when an erection is achieved, the thought of will it last, or immediately going into penetration and racing to orgasm is there.

Yes, I’ve never had a problem with it until my girlfriend and I broke up and hookups were more common. The fear of performing is so much greater when its not someone you are totally comfortable with. It makes it more difficult to get out of the anxious feelings, the more it happens.

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YesPressure of erection gets into my head.

Yes its been an issue I have struggled with most of my adult life. Anxiety that my parts aren’t big enough or that I am not providing enough foreplay or am I not in the moment enough.

Yes. Getting anxious during sex often causes me to lose my erection. I have come up with a workaround by focusing intensely on erotic fantasies that turn me on the most, this usually works to get me hard again. But it’s not ideal, because it takes me out of the moment and if I lose focus on the fantasy, the anxiety comes back and I lose my erection again.

Yes, I get anxious during sex with my partner. The moment I begin to lose my erection I panic and have overwhelming feelings of being ashamed and embarrassed. When I attempt penetration I am too soft for it to work, so we end up just not having sex. It really bothers me and frustrates me, and I can often spend all day afterwards thinking about how “I’m not good enough” and I am letting her down.

In the past I had been anxious because I was never able to have an orgasm with my sexual partner. Now, however, the anxiety stems from not being able to get an erection when I feel I should get one and also not being to keep an erection.

I didn’t find that I got anxious in sex but rather surprised that my body was in complete contrast to my mind. I was and still am very anxious about certain things in life however and I think that’s taken me out of the moment without even realising it.

Often. It takes me out of the moment completely, and I become more focused on the process of sex than sex itself.

Definitely get anxious beforehand which has led to me being unable to perform in the moment. I begin to overthink and my desire disappears.

Yes, constant fear of it not being good enough making it harder to hold an erection.

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