Sex may be pervasive in our popular culture, but conversations about it are still associated with stigma and shame in Indian homes. As a result, most individuals dealing with sexual health issues or trying to find information about sex often resort to unverified online sources or follow unscientific advice from their friends.
To dispel widespread misinformation about sex, News18.com is running this weekly sex column, titled ‘Let’s Talk Sex’. We hope to start the conversation about sex with this column and address issues of sexual health with scientific insight and nuance.
The column is being written by Sexologist Prof (Dr) Summary Jain. In today’s column, Dr. Jain explains how alcohol can affect your sex drive.
It’s a common belief that alcohol helps you loosen up and get ready for action. However, the fact remains that alcohol can affect your health, both in the short term as well as in the long term. Alcohol is a depressant, and excessive use of it can lead to mood swings, decreased sexual desire, and under its influence it becomes difficult for a man to get an erection or reach orgasm.
Our liver can only break down the amount of alcohol in a standard sized drink an hour, so regularly drinking more than that means toxins from the alcohol can build up in your body and affect your organs. , including those involved in sex. Therefore, the effect of alcohol on your sex drive is no exception.
Don’t worry, we won’t tell you to stop drinking alcohol completely, but there are a few things you should know.
Lowers your sex hormone levels
Your body produces a huge range of hormones, which can affect your mood and trigger other bodily functions. Sex hormones, which include testosterone and dopamine, can have a big impact on your libido. These rise and fall over time, which is why your libido can fluctuate. For example, in women, testosterone levels rise before and during ovulation. It increases your libido, which increases your chances of getting pregnant.
When you first drink alcohol, your testosterone and dopamine levels temporarily increase. This is why some people think that alcohol can actually help increase sex drive. However, this growth does not last long. In fact, alcohol can lower dopamine and testosterone levels and this will leave you with a lower libido overall.
makes sex less pleasurable
When you’re drunk, your hand-eye coordination can leave much to be desired. As a result, you may find that you are not on your A-game sexually. However, even if you are, most people don’t have the same physical reaction to sex when they are drunk. This can lead to difficulty reaching an orgasm, decreased vaginal lubrication, premature ejaculation, and erectile dysfunction.
Makes it difficult to get an orgasm
While one drink may not interfere with blood flow there, one drink can have a number of physical, cognitive and behavioral effects that can lead to alcohol-induced orgasmic dysfunction.
Women’s sexual arousal also depends on good blood circulation and alcohol can affect sensitivity in the clitoris and vagina. Therefore, if women are drinking, they may find it difficult to get aroused or reach orgasm during sex. This may mean taking longer to climax and achieving less intense orgasms. If you are able to get orgasm at all.
Increases chances of erectile dysfunction
There are many causes of erectile dysfunction and alcohol is one of them. There are many reasons why this could happen.
First, when a man experiences arousal his brain has to send a message to his penis and this triggers an erection. However, when you are drunk your brain works slower than normal. This means the message may take some time to arrive or not arrive at all. Drinking alcohol also dehydrates your body and can reduce your blood volume and circulation. To make and maintain a healthy erection, the penis needs good blood flow. Without it, penetrative sex becomes very difficult.
Dehydration can also increase angiotensin levels in men. This is a hormone that encourages your blood vessels to constrict, reducing your circulation even more.
affects fertility
Drinking alcohol can also affect fertility. So, if you are thinking of starting a family, you may want to check your drinking habits. For women, drinking regularly can affect how long it takes you to get pregnant. Excessive drinking, in particular, can lead to several ovulation disorders.
Alcohol can affect your sex drive as well as affect the quality of men’s sperm. It can reduce your sperm count, size, motility and size. All this means that getting your partner pregnant is more difficult.
affects sleep quality
Getting a good night’s sleep is important for a large number of physical activities. It gives your body time to rest and recover and benefits all your physical and cognitive functions. Sleep deprivation can reduce your feelings of desire and make arousal more difficult.
Alcohol can affect the quality of your sleep. As your body digests alcohol, it actually becomes more psychologically stimulated. This means that you may find it difficult to sleep or your sleep may be disturbed frequently and this may affect your libido.
As you can see, the effects of alcohol on your sex drive can be incredibly diverse. It can lower your libido and arousal before sex, or it can affect how much you enjoy having sex. If you’ve experienced decreased sexual desire, premature ejaculation, relationship problems, or erectile dysfunction because of mixing alcohol and sex, you may be letting alcohol make the best use of your sex life.
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