{"id":17013,"date":"2021-11-25T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17013"},"modified":"2021-11-25T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T13:00:14","slug":"how-stress-affects-libido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/sexual-health\/how-stress-affects-libido\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stress Affects Libido"},"content":{"rendered":"

The root of your sexual misfires could be stress. <\/span><\/p>\n

Multiple studies show that stress tends to deflate men’s libido and cause long-term issues with their sexual drive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, men are more anxious and stressed than ever. <\/span><\/p>\n

A study of 1,028 Australian men between 18 and 64 years old showed a significant rise in those who were
\nnervous, hopeless, restless, depressed, and worthless. <\/span><\/p>\n

Many said everything was an effort.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stress Can Increase Sex Drive<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The common thought is that stress increases sex drives in men because stress creates a craving that comes with intimacy and some want it more because of a “wanting what you can’t have” emotion. <\/span><\/p>\n

Some stress may send men back to their primary instinct for sex to release stress or assume control.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stress Tends to Reduce Sex Drive<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As positive as that analysis is, other studies are showing that men involved with stress tend to have a reduction in their libidos. <\/span><\/p>\n

That is also backed up by studies on physical health that indicate stress affects men physically as well as mentally, therefore reducing sex drive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Being upset or worried keeps you from longing for sex. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can also have a “busy brain” which prevents you from feeling aroused. <\/span><\/p>\n

You can’t be aroused if you can’t relax.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Look at Fight or Flight<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Everyone in a stressful situation comes to a “fight or flight” response. <\/span><\/p>\n

This results in the primary stress hormone, cortisol, flooding your body. <\/span><\/p>\n

This can have a terrible effect from high blood sugar to inhibiting the immune system. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cortisol also stops the flow of the primary male sex hormone, testosterone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This can cause a lack of sexual desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There is no age where men won’t feel stress. <\/span><\/p>\n

Younger men are stressed about their careers or relationships. <\/span><\/p>\n

Middle-aged men may be dealing with professional or personal stress like being a father or making enough money to support a family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Older men over 50 are anxious about aging, retirement, or illnesses of parents or their partner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these stresses can cause libido problems. <\/span><\/p>\n

Learning how to work out stress will likely have a positive result on your sexual drive.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The root of your sexual misfires could be stress. Multiple studies show that stress tends to deflate men’s libido and cause long-term issues with their sexual drive.\u00a0 First, men are more anxious and stressed than ever. A study of 1,028 Australian men between 18 and 64 years old showed a significant rise in those who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1424,1047],"class_list":["post-17013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sexual-health","tag-libido","tag-stress-health-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}