I’m 25M and have been in a relationship with my partner(24F) for five years. Initially, our physical intimacy was decent ( \~40% times successful PIV ), but when we tried to have sex for the first time, I struggled with maintaining an erection and penetration with condoms, after that it was always without condom. I tried Viagra once and had good penetration but I always felt like pulling out and masturbating. The challenges worsened during lockdown when we were in a long-distance relationship. Anxiety about sexual performance led to further difficulties, and my partner became hesitant about intimacy due to contraceptive concerns.
Now it was 2022, again a year of long distance where she was fully focused in her studies and the relationship was falling apart, we did nothing sexually and no flirting nothing. I was sexually frustrated and anxious, ended up getting into a lot of drinking and smoking. Was masturbating a lot ( okay so I should have mentioned this earlier but I do seem to have a masturbation problem where I compulsively masturbate and do it a lot of times \~4 a day ) , ended up watching a lot of content online and got involved sexually online. 2023 was again the same, a lot drinking, smoking and masturbating to random stuff online which would involve some sort of feargasm. She did come to visit me a couple of times in 2023, but there was no enthusiasm from her side to have sex and get intimate. She would kiss me alright but if I want her to give me a BJ she would say no, she wouldn’t even want to do a lot of foreplay, just a few pecks and makeouts. I did ask her about sex and how we would do it and it concerns me , she said that once we are living together she’d get on Birth Control and it will be alright, she didn’t seem too bothered about it. But I felt a big lack of enthusiasm. Now in 2024, she is finally living with me. She is going to be here for 2 months. It has been a couple of days now, we have made out and cuddled. But she would show no enthusiasm for sex , but it oral or penetrative. I do get good erections and sometimes want to get more into the act, but the lack of enthusiasm is a turn off for me. She would make out with me, get on top while both of us have clothes on, grind on me and then orgasm, that it. Also, there I times where I just lost the erection and felt very weird, but a lot of thoughts about if I’m actually attracted to her or not. I had to download some porn and fap last night as she slept off, I had been abstaining for 10 days since she was coming here. I feel its really not healthy and I need to do something about this. Can someone please guide me ?
PS : I have also visited a few Urologists , I have been told it’s mostly psychological and it would be alright. I have got my bloodwork done, Free Testosterone – 19 pg/mL, Testosterone – 603 ng/dL , FSH – 3.54 mIU/mL, LH – 5.95 mIU/mL Vitamin D is 10.92 ng/mL and TSH is 9.53 ( hypothyroid )
I have grade 3 varicocele as well.
Tl;Dr – Dead bedroom in a relationship, starting a new live-in phase and want to know about the next steps

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  1. All the many separate issues of drinking a lot/too much, smoking (it’s bad for you and stuff, blabla) and a rollercoaster of sexual experiences of having sex at first, then the LDR, the masturbating a lot to..a lot of other things, there’s one main problem you should deal with:

    You two aren’t having compatible sex. Sure the things above can have an impact on that, but there’s another person in the room with sex: your partner. Solution: talk about it. That’s ..it unfortunately. You want other, better, more engaging sex and she’s not providing it. Why she doesn’t, who knows, and it may be for a right or a wrong reason. Contraceptive concerns are valid, but contraceptives are a thing that are pretty damn safe.

    You guys really need to work out the mismatch in sex you’re having. No one knows the answers apart from you and her. Good luck!

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