Sexual Numbness: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Sexual numbness is reduced physical or emotional sensation during sexual activity and may affect genital feeling, arousal, orgasm, or pleasure.
Sexual numbness is reduced physical or emotional sensation during sexual activity and may affect genital feeling, arousal, orgasm, or pleasure.
Vulvodynia is persistent or recurring vulvar pain that may feel like burning, stinging, rawness, aching, or tenderness with or without touch.
A morning erection is an automatic sleep-related erection present upon waking and does not necessarily indicate sexual thoughts, desire, or consent.
Vestibulodynia is persistent or recurring pain at the vulvar vestibule, often triggered by penetration, tampon use, touch, pressure, or sitting.
Pelvic floor dysfunction occurs when pelvic muscles are weak, overly tight, painful, or poorly coordinated, affecting bladder, bowel, pelvic, or sexual function.
Sexual pain disorder involves persistent or recurring genital or pelvic pain during touching, penetration, erection, ejaculation, orgasm, or related activity.
Genito-pelvic pain is recurring genital or pelvic discomfort that may affect penetration, sexual activity, medical examinations, and daily life.
Penetration disorder involves persistent pain, fear, difficulty, or involuntary pelvic-floor tightening during attempted vaginal penetration.
Persistent genital arousal disorder causes recurring, unwanted genital arousal sensations without corresponding sexual desire or lasting relief from orgasm.
Post-SSRI sexual dysfunction involves persistent changes in desire, genital sensation, arousal, orgasm, or ejaculation after an SSRI is stopped.