How To Navigate Sexual Anxiety In The Middle Of Sex

Relatedly, sexual anxiety can be linked to performance. “Performance anxiety is feeling fearful or anxious about anything surrounding sex, some of which include your sexual skills, your attractiveness, whether you’re ‘good in bed,’ whether you’ll be able to orgasm, able to please a partner or whether you’ll be able to get aroused or erect,” Dr Carol Queen, PhD, a staff sexologist at Good Vibes, explains. A lack of sexual experience, in particular, can trigger anxiety. “This might make someone scared of making mistakes or the fact that it might be obvious that they haven’t had many partners,” Cook says.