Sexual wellbeing

Sexual wellbeing is not a permanent state of confidence or desire. It includes the ordinary messy bits: getting in your head, losing arousal, feeling self-conscious, worrying about an erection, wondering what alcohol or medication is doing, or noticing a change in your body after sex.

This collection joins the site’s published “Sexual wellbeing” and “Bodies & wellbeing” labels because the latter only has two questions and works best as part of a fuller body-and-mind view. You will find practical ways to talk about performance pressure, wandering attention and embarrassment, alongside articles on medication, dryness, urinary infections and semen that burns.

An article cannot diagnose the cause of a new symptom or change in sexual function. Seek clinical advice for pain, burning, recurrent urinary infections, a sudden or ongoing change in erections or arousal, or side effects that concern you. For the confidence side, a clinician or therapist can help when worry is taking over the sex you want to have.