Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

Why You Aren't Aroused When Stressed #Shorts #Masculinity #SexualHealth #Sexuality #Stress

18 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube video by Anne Truong MD explaining why stress prevents sexual arousal. The speaker describes that stress activates the sympathetic nervous system (the 'stress nerve'), which increases bodily tenseness and inhibits physiological sexual responses (e.g., erection). The speaker also notes that women have substantial testosterone as well as estrogen, implying hormonal context for arousal.

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People feel that they have a lot of estrogen more than testosterone, but women have actually a high amount of testosterone as well. So what you were saying about bending over and the tenseness and so forth, that's actually the activation of the stress system called the sympathetic nervous system, which is the stress nerve. You feel stress, then that nervous system in your body start to kind of kick in. But however, if you're in that mode, you're not going to have a rest, you're not going to feel aroused, because when you're in that mode, it's preventing you from having an erection.