Do you ever get anxious during sex? How does it affect you? (Part 2)

Lately yes. I watched too much for the last years and recently i decided to cut it completely. I’ve been with my partner for almost 4 years now and I struggle sometimes to keep it up. Last times i couldn’t even finish wtf. I need to change my mental state, have a healthier lifestyle and sleep more hours. Period.

Sometimes I do and it makes it hard to stay hard and hard to ejaculate

Yes I get anxious during sex. Wondering if I’m going to perform and please my partner

I feel pretty inadequate most of the time. I suffer from low T as well and I am taking testosterone replacement but it’s taking a long time to take hold. I also take cialis and when nothing works it gets frustrating and I feel pretty defeated.

I keep thinking about my penis getting hard…rather than on the person I am with

I’m 20 years old and this issue started only a year ago when i have an unfavorable sexual experience with my partner at the time. We were in a car and I couldn’t get it up because of how cold it was. He reached to touch my penis and I panicked because nothing like this had ever happened to me before. Eventually we broke up for different reasons, but I always believed in the back of my head that this was why. Over the next few months, I got into many one night stands and hookup relationships to prove to myself that I desired sex, and i did, i could get it up. But now that I am in a commited relationship again, and because being a gay man means penetration isn’t always guaranteed, i don’t feel like my erections last as long as they did, and I am in my head constantly worried about when is the next time I might have sex with my partner and how well I might perform. I think my worst fear in bed is when I’m being perceived doing a sexual act and i feel like he’s judging me, or im not doing something right, or if im jacking off to finish, I am taking longer than i should, or almost like im faking the erection and orgasm.

Yes, every time I have been with someone new I’ve had issues. I had it with my ex wife when we first got together for a bit but got over it eventually. After we broke up I had issues with every woman after. Never really had enough time to get comfortable with them to work through the issue. A few of them flipped out when it happened and that really affected my confidence. It has gotten so bad it’s almost like I have a fear of sex now. Like just an impending doom of oh no I know what’s gonna happen and i don’t want to go through that embarrassment again. The only thing I can think about is if I’m going to be able to get an election or not which usually doesn’t end well.

Yes, my mind usually goes 100mph in the stages leading to sex. It’s usually negative thoughts of not performing, and once those thoughts are there… I’m screwed (not literally :joy:)

I often gets nervous while foreplay that makes me stop doing intercourse later on and end up in chaos… I have stress related to Money, Family and my future baby like How Il ens up getting raise him/her when I dont have enough money and it makes me stress a lot that I gets issue with erection…I always gets hard at the time of watching porn and masterbute but when it comes for sex with my wife I gets nervous a lot

Heart starts to race, get a bit of a headache. Don’t feel horny at all, just generally want to not be there, makes me lose confidence

I’ve sometimes managed to have great sex with a partner that I’ve felt overwhelming attraction to, and perhaps has also been great in the bedroom.
But many times I’ve not been able to get hard when I really want to have sex with them and at that point I overthink it all and it doesn’t work.
I also ‘know’ that I cannot get an erection again within 30 minutes or an hour or so of ejaculation, and sometimes partners haven’t been understanding of this. I’ve never known if that was my body or if it was in my head. I’m still not sure, as they have seemed sure it can happen.

I used to have issues when putting on condoms with the fear I would lose the erection if I don’t get it on first go, super quick. With that thought, it caused me to lose my erection, and now I’m commonly wondering is it hard enough which also causes me to lose it mid flight.

My penis goes numb

I found it impossible to become hard at the end of my previous relationship (a long marriage) and that transferred into my new relationship (despite the fact that my new partner is really attractive).
I have come to rely on Viagra which is effective but limits my ability to be impulsive and get lost in the moment.
I recognise the description of “fight or flight” (elevated heart beat, stress reaction, critical self talk) as the problem but my solution has been to forbid myself from fantasizing and try to avoid impulsive/ spur of the moment sexual activity - this is bad for my relationship.
My partner has been incredibly supportive. I have huge sympathy for anyone on here whose partner is not.

Yes hands start to sweat head starts to sweat

My gf loves sex and so do i. But now that getting an erection is not automatic anymore, i feel anxiety and keep thinking, what if it doesnt stay hard? That of course results in an erection that quickly fades. Makes me feel bad and feel guilty.

Yes I get anxious even before reaching the place. I don’t rarely get Morning erections

I live with a very dominant partner. She can be very intimidating. That added up to my feelings of inadequacy and low performance. Now I feel really anxious about sex.

Yes, I lose erection or prematurely ejaculate

It has only happened a few times and after I got anxious I did not perform well