WHAT DOES SEX THERAPY INVOLVE?
Some people become anxious and uptight just hearing the words “sex therapy,” because they don’t understand what sex therapy involves.
Try to look at it this way. Imagine that you are someone who is afraid of public speaking. You get extremely anxious and tense before you have to talk in front of a group of people. You’re afraid your speech will fall flat, your audience will be bored, or someone will ask you a question you have no idea how to answer. You feel your throat closing up as your nervousness increases. All the witticisms you so carefully rehearsed, the jokes and anecdotes you collected for this occasion, desert you in your moment of need. This is performance anxiety. It’s the same thing that sometimes hits a man when he gets in bed with a lover. He worries that he won’t get or maintain a good erection and that his partner will be disappointed. Maybe he’s been rehearsing the encounter over and over in his head, and feels like he’s about to go onstage.
There are professionals who can teach you to relax and be a better, more confident public speaker. Well, a sex therapist can offer the same kind of help for some men with erection problems. Specifically, sex therapy can help men whose erection problems are caused by anxiety, nervousness or other psychological distress; and men whose erection problems have a physical cause or a physical contributing factor, but who want to learn how to increase their sexual pleasure and possibly improve their erections, as much as possible. Sex therapy can teach you how to pleasure yourself and your partner; how to enjoy other types of sexual contact besides intercourse; and how to communicate better with your partner.
Can sex therapy help you? The best answer to that question comes from some self-evaluation and from an assessment by a trained, experienced sex therapist. In general, however, there are certain characteristics which make someone more likely to benefit from sex therapy, and more able to learn solutions to correct an erection problem.
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