Is this normal?

So, I was with a girl the other day, it was kind of unexpected. We were laying in bed, and we started cuddling, which was unexpected, and then things escalated a little bit, and I could tell she was getting kind of horny. I was into it, but I wasn’t really getting hard. She’s incredibly attractive, and I’ve known her for some time, but we’ve never been intimate together. She looked at me, and said “I bet your heart is a rock right now” but I wasn’t. When she said that, I really started to get in my head about it, because I feel like I should’ve been really hard. She wasn’t really touching me or anything, but we were just cuddling, and kind of getting touchy-feely. I really don’t know if it’s normal to not be hard in a scenario like that, I’ve always had issues for as long as I can remember, and have really only had one successful sexual experience, and that was kind of surprising because I really didn’t feel confident in myself.

Now, I’m really feeling down on myself because I really wish that I could’ve been horny, and have been able to get hard. I really don’t know why I couldn’t. She was super attractive and I just don’t know what to think. I’m super bummed out, and I feel like it always goes this way, where I’m with a woman, and then I can’t perform.

To clarify, I never really have issues by myself, sometimes I do, maybe like 15% of the time when I’m tired or just not into it. In this case, and many
others, it’s just like I’m not getting horny. Im not feeling that drive during that time. It feels psychological because by myself I’m usually just fine.

I had the same issue I don’t know what to do

For me lately it has all been about letting go of expectation. I’m the same as you where if someone says something about me being hard I’m definitely not going to get hard, or if they tell me they want me to cum, I’m definitely not going to cum after that. But lately I have removed my expectation to cum, and I’ll even tell them “it takes me forever to cum, don’t worry” and the same goes for staying hard. lately I just don’t expect to be hard and I’m trying to enjoy all the sensations and my partner’s company and personality. I’m taking it slow and not trying to rush. Removal of this expectation has seriously helped me get hard a lot lately.

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Yeah I probably stress about it too much :frowning:

It’s like I don’t even get hard before anything is happening. Like, I could be in bed just making out or whatever and I just don’t get hard.