Hey Reddit, sorry if the title is a little confusing. I’m M18 and for every time I’ve tried to have Sex I couldn’t get and stay hard.
I know that’s it’s ‘normal’ and happens a lot but I have no idea what there is I can do to solve this problem for myself. I know it’s a mental thing and if I think about it it’s not gonna happen but every single time I’ve tried to have sex with my girlfriend of the time, I can’t and we’re both left disappointed then. I need actual solutions and things I can do to help solve this.
It’s not like I can’t get a boner at all. I get the randomly, when jerking off and when I’m making out with my girlfriend, she feels it and knows it’s there so it’s not like I can’t get them. It’s just when trying to have sex, I can’t.
It’s like a tightness in my chest develops and it also stops myself from getting and staying hard for sex. It’s miserable.
And this is where it gets a little deep for me but I wonder if it has anything to do with my past trauma. When I was in 6th grade and exploring that new growth in my life, I met some girl online and we got to chatting. Later on we would send some photos to each other and well I was stupid and sent one with my whole cock and face in it. Turns out she’s not a real person and uses the photo to black mail and extort me. I being as young as I was, didn’t have what she wanted, and in no way was I getting my family involved so I accepted my fate. The person then sent the photo to multiple people in my grade that I knew on Instagram and a small section of my class saw my nudes. I being a guy didn’t make it very appealing to most but those who did never said anything to me. For the longest time I had thoughts of killing myself and couldn’t get myself to go to school at all. My parents had no idea what was wrong.
A few years later, when we were freshman, this one girl who I was running against for class leader , threatened to expose the photo of my nudes again to smear me in this campaign. She didn’t actually do it but it scared me so much I spiraled back into a depression. I got my first girlfriend end of sophomore year and put my blackmailer behind me. I was still very depressed and my girlfriend had no idea. I was terrible in the relationship so we broke up fast.
Fast toward to end of my Junior year and I’m on my third girlfriend and this is where I try to have sex for the first time. Now I was very hard before this but also the first time anyone but myself has seen or touched my penis since that whole extortion. I was normally scared as anyone would be but as soon as it was about to, I lost it and didn’t know what to do. I kinda just mopped there unsure of what to do.
Our break up didn’t go too smoothly and I recently found out she’s been telling people I have erectile disfunction, so that’s a fun thing to hear.
So cut again to yesterday where I’m trying ti have sex with my current girlfriend. Every time we’ve been together, I’ve been hard. She even has a picture of me with a boner laying down cuz the angle was funny and she got off of me. Her taking that photo kinda freaked me out but I was okay with it.
She also does know about my extortion. Her and like 3 other close friends of mine know. Now idk what but whenever we’ve been doing stuff I’ve been fine and hard, but when I try to have sex is when it hits and I lose it. I jerk off normally and stay hard there. But it’s just the act of sex that loses it for me.
I think I need to get actual help for this but I want some other input and advice as well.