Low sex drive

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How do you meet your partners needs when your sex drive is low?

Lately I have been in a funk and this means that I have almost zero motivation to touch, cum or tease. Both my Dom and subby sides are completely null and void. I still want to be there for my partners but I am just blech.

How do I support them in this state?

Also, any advice for helping to increase a dead sex drive?
 
Hmmm.... Good questions.

For participating, You might think of embracing the blech in one of a few ways. (please forgive my gender assumptions)

What if You role-played that you are a secretary and this horny guy has been bugging you so much that you just have to take care of him so you can get back to work? Or you're running a big project and one of your suppliers sent this jerk over who just won't let you get finished until you favor him until he cums? Or in a different direction, you know the meme of the woman saying "tie me up and you can do anything!" Whelp: tie him up and go play a video game or cook dinner ;) Maybe give 'im a plug, vibrator, or blow-up gag to keep 'im company ;)

I'd be curious if any of those scenarios resonated (positively or negatively), or if You try one, if You notice any shifts in Your feelings or energy along the way...
 
Also, any advice for helping to increase a dead sex drive?
To me, this is a serious and important question, so I will attempt a serious answer in the space given.

YMMV

If You are (for the moment) not feeling any tugs from Your libido, there are many possible causes.

A) Surface causes usually include physical health: are you getting enough water, nutrition, vitamins, protein, exercise, sun light, etc.
If any of these is severely deficient, improving them can move the needle a bit and give You a better baseline for all activities. Remember: it (may) take 30 days of doing something for it to be a habit. Also: if You try removing something which has been a part of Your life, You need to wean Yourself off of it and likely replace it with something else to do so safely and effectively.

B) Overwhelm in any aspect of Your life can be emotionally and energetically draining and impact anyone's libido, whether work, family, home, finances, politics, etc.
Possible solutions include: solving the problem! ;) Realizing the things You cannot change and letting them go/giving them less power over You. Scheduling time for each problem, worrying/fretting/complaining/yelling all You like during that time, and leaving it alone after that. Repeat appts may be necessary.


POSSIBLY HELPFUL:
Any of the typical grounding exercises may help at one time or another: deep breathing, EFT/tapping, box breathing, 54321 (time on each sense), guided meditations including body scans, white/brown/pink noise playing in the background, visualizations, Tai Chi/Quigong or other slow, purposeful movements, or for some people dance/ecstatic dance, improv... And what speaks to You and Your body and Your soul...


C) One possible emotional cause is that You've gotten used to the roles and the scenes and maybe everything feels like You've done it for the 100th time. Some people yearn or lust for more novelty and spontaneity while others don't - or don't in certain situations. This feels like an important topic which most people seem to never address or be aware of.

One tact to address this is to be more present and in-the-moment. Doing so could look like simply being more aware of the physical actions taken and observed, or hearing some of Your thoughts about the actions or activities, expectations or things You never noticed before. You might feel inspired to go a different direction - or maybe next time. Just having more awareness, more involvement in the activity may inspire something now or later, or give Your mind something to consider afterward about how You showed up, participated, or subtleties in simply liking or disliking things...


D) If You are willing to go into the deep causes, there is likely one or more things which have gone off track over the months, possibly so slowly that no one noticed. Or so automatically that it never came to Your conscious mind.

When I became less interested or totally disinterested in my partner of the time, it was because it had started a while ago with a sudden and subtle realization that I couldn't fully trust them - which meant I couldn't fully be my Self around them. That lead to less sharing, less openness, less spontaneity, and less active caring and participation since I couldn't figure out how to engage with her as she actively avoided communicating about most tough topics. That made it seem like forcing the issue(s) would only end the relationship faster :( In one case, I was just a Top for her, in another I was a generic boyfriend - rather than being more my Self.

So I will generically see this state of libido indifference as having underlying trust and safety issues, whatever those may be.

But I only know my experience, not Yours.
 
And after a good sleep, I realize I forgot at least one important possibility - since I haven't experienced it myself:

E) You may have done enough internal work to reorient internally - in your physical, emotional, physiological, or spiritual Self(es).

That could mean something noticeable shifted, like suddenly something which always turned you on either doesn't or it evokes a different or additional emotion or physical sensation, including possibly feeling draining. If you released something (for example, an emotional or physical trauma) your system may be relaxing or just shifting in ways you're not used to. It could just make some more space so that things aren't quite connected the same way they were before.


F) Whelp.. I suppose then I also have to say: Maybe something triggered you in everyday life, or you've gone through new trauma - those can throw everything out of whack. It could be small things digging away at your self-esteem, how you deal with life, or maybe you thought you'd put something behind you but it turns out that you'd just walled it up in your emotional infrastructure...
 
Hmmm.... Good questions.

For participating, You might think of embracing the blech in one of a few ways. (please forgive my gender assumptions)

What if You role-played that you are a secretary and this horny guy has been bugging you so much that you just have to take care of him so you can get back to work? Or you're running a big project and one of your suppliers sent this jerk over who just won't let you get finished until you favor him until he cums? Or in a different direction, you know the meme of the woman saying "tie me up and you can do anything!" Whelp: tie him up and go play a video game or cook dinner ;) Maybe give 'im a plug, vibrator, or blow-up gag to keep 'im company ;)

I'd be curious if any of those scenarios resonated (positively or negatively), or if You try one, if You notice any shifts in Your feelings or energy along the way...
Those could be fun for sure! My two main play partners are mostly online/long distance so I won't be able to make these happen right away, but definitely some things to keep in mind.
 
To me, this is a serious and important question, so I will attempt a serious answer in the space given.

YMMV

If You are (for the moment) not feeling any tugs from Your libido, there are many possible causes.

A) Surface causes usually include physical health: are you getting enough water, nutrition, vitamins, protein, exercise, sun light, etc.
If any of these is severely deficient, improving them can move the needle a bit and give You a better baseline for all activities. Remember: it (may) take 30 days of doing something for it to be a habit. Also: if You try removing something which has been a part of Your life, You need to wean Yourself off of it and likely replace it with something else to do so safely and effectively.

B) Overwhelm in any aspect of Your life can be emotionally and energetically draining and impact anyone's libido, whether work, family, home, finances, politics, etc.
Possible solutions include: solving the problem! ;) Realizing the things You cannot change and letting them go/giving them less power over You. Scheduling time for each problem, worrying/fretting/complaining/yelling all You like during that time, and leaving it alone after that. Repeat appts may be necessary.


POSSIBLY HELPFUL:
Any of the typical grounding exercises may help at one time or another: deep breathing, EFT/tapping, box breathing, 54321 (time on each sense), guided meditations including body scans, white/brown/pink noise playing in the background, visualizations, Tai Chi/Quigong or other slow, purposeful movements, or for some people dance/ecstatic dance, improv... And what speaks to You and Your body and Your soul...


C) One possible emotional cause is that You've gotten used to the roles and the scenes and maybe everything feels like You've done it for the 100th time. Some people yearn or lust for more novelty and spontaneity while others don't - or don't in certain situations. This feels like an important topic which most people seem to never address or be aware of.

One tact to address this is to be more present and in-the-moment. Doing so could look like simply being more aware of the physical actions taken and observed, or hearing some of Your thoughts about the actions or activities, expectations or things You never noticed before. You might feel inspired to go a different direction - or maybe next time. Just having more awareness, more involvement in the activity may inspire something now or later, or give Your mind something to consider afterward about how You showed up, participated, or subtleties in simply liking or disliking things...


D) If You are willing to go into the deep causes, there is likely one or more things which have gone off track over the months, possibly so slowly that no one noticed. Or so automatically that it never came to Your conscious mind.

When I became less interested or totally disinterested in my partner of the time, it was because it had started a while ago with a sudden and subtle realization that I couldn't fully trust them - which meant I couldn't fully be my Self around them. That lead to less sharing, less openness, less spontaneity, and less active caring and participation since I couldn't figure out how to engage with her as she actively avoided communicating about most tough topics. That made it seem like forcing the issue(s) would only end the relationship faster :( In one case, I was just a Top for her, in another I was a generic boyfriend - rather than being more my Self.

So I will generically see this state of libido indifference as having underlying trust and safety issues, whatever those may be.

But I only know my experience, not Yours.
So actually a lot of these resonate with me. I can check off almost all of them haha. Which really says something and probably helps explain the reasoning. I guess the problem has more been so jumpstarting it a bit. Though I will say that having a new partner has made me seen some improvements for sure.

Thank you for taking the time to write this all out. It was a great read.
 
So actually a lot of these resonate with me. I can check off almost all of them haha. Which really says something and probably helps explain the reasoning. I guess the problem has more been so jumpstarting it a bit. Though I will say that having a new partner has made me seen some improvements for sure.

Thank you for taking the time to write this all out. It was a great read.

You're welcome!

So with a new partner most people usually get a good dose of NRE (New Relationship Energy) which can positively influence many things.
Still: I'd encourage You to start working in small (and medium and large, if You have the bandwidth) ways to take a little better care of Yourself - maybe You can finagle the NRE into a more permanent raising of Your energies, libido, initiative, and creativity back to - or above! - previous levels! 8)
 
Those could be fun for sure! My two main play partners are mostly online/long distance so I won't be able to make these happen right away, but definitely some things to keep in mind.
I'm pretty curious if You take any of those ideas and run with them to adapt to LDR what that might look like....?

Does focusing on a problem ever allow You to feel better?
 
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