Pelvic floor during sex

[united-ivory-elephant]

When I tense my pelvic floor muscles during an erection, it gets firmer. Should I tense them during sex / masturbation or will this cause issues?

[internal-moccasin-reptile]

This is a great question and I’ve been thinking about something very similar. I’ve noticed when doing the mindful masturbation exercises that I don’t tend to engage my pelvic floor muscles all the time, in fact it’s often more pleasurable when I don’t and it doesn’t make me lose my erection.

But when I’m having sex or keen to cum while masturbating, I do tend to engage them and hold onto it for long periods of time, because like you I feel ‘harder’ when I do. I’m wondering if I’m effectively exhausting them and ironically making it more likely that I lose my erection, when more judicious use of them might lead to better performance overall.

[witty-aqua-roundworm]

I can speak from personal experience. I used to tense up my pelvic floor when i was masturbating, for the reasons you mentioned: it helped my erection and seemed to help me come faster. After years of doing this though, eventually my pelvic floor muscles went into chronic contraction and i acquired a condition called “ejaculatory anhedonia.” Basically, i could ejaculate but had absolutely no pleasurable sensations of orgasm. I went through months of physical therapy and I’m back to normal now, but i am very careful not to tense up my pelvic floor muscles during masturbation anymore.