You’ve always enjoyed sex. In fact, you can’t ever think of a time when you didn’t enjoy sex. Even the crummiest sex is still sex after all, right? But as of recently, you just can’t bring yourself to care about sex. Your partner is practically throwing herself at you, but you still can’t muster up the gumption to get down to business between the sheets. You’ve tried thinking about sex, but that doesn’t help. You’ve tried to incorporate new, exciting things into the bedroom, but that doesn’t help. While your general disinterest in sex was bad enough, lately you find you’ve been struggling to achieve an erection.
All of your sex-less woes can be traced back to one culprit: low libido. If your libido has taken a dip, you’ll find that sex just isn’t as interesting to you as it used to be. That’s not to say that low libido ensures that you’ll forever be apathetic about sex. Quite the opposite, in fact. Odds are there is some catalyst for your low libido, and if you can get to the root of the problem you can reclaim your sex drive.
Low libido can be caused by many factors, including stress, depression, low self-esteem, and even lack of sleep. When your body encounters one of these problems, it can lead to wires getting crisscrossed, which can lead to sexual feelings getting lost. As your sex drive dips, you may find that your erection isn’t springing to attention like it used to. Again, this leads back to the wires in your brain. When your body attempts to tell the brain that it’s time to wake up the erection and engage in intercourse, the notification can get lost, leading to missed erections.
If you’re looking to regain your sex drive and erection, seek help from a mental health expert. Together, you can work through what feelings might be causing your lowered sex drive. It may be stress at work, feelings of inadequacy, or something you that didn’t even realize was problematic, such as a hormone imbalance.
Once you’ve rooted out the cause of your low libido, you can begin to work through the problem. Over time, you’ll overcome the issue, your sex drive should go back to normal, and your erection will spring back to life.