Danielle Harel

Women – your libido is tied to shifts in hormones and energy throughout your day, your monthly cycle, and your lifetime. In contrast to men – who generally experience a build-up of sexual energy when they have not had sex for a while, and a lowering when they do have sex – your libido is…

Studies have shown that the number one sexual complaint of women across the U.S. is low sexual desire (low libido). For the next few posts, we will present the main reasons why women suffer from low libido and give some ideas on how women can help themselves and gain the help of their partners in increasing their desire for and enjoyment of sex.

In addition to performance anxiety, we find that those who suffer from Erectile Dysfunction also have anxiety that comes from a fear of and a pulling back from their own natural impulses towards sexual interaction and escalation.

It is not surprising that a lot of men experience performance anxiety since boys are socialized around having to prove they are always capable and competent. Once men experience a couple of erection failures, they begin to lose confidence in themselves, which leads to performance anxiety. You can directly confront the cycle of anxiety with a few simple steps:

While many drugs, such as Viagra and Cialis, are available to mask the symptoms of erectile dysfunction, they do not deal with the underlying causes of ED. We have found that psychological ED has at least 3 underlying roots and we are offering a short series explaining each of the roots and how to deal with them.