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SEXUAL AVOIDANCE: THE MANY FORMS OF SEXUAL AVOIDANCE

Sexual avoidance ranges from relatively mild avoidance of real situations that provoke anxiety to extreme panic states that cannot be logically explained.

Performance anxiety prompts some people—whether they have ISD or not—to avoid sex. In addition to experiencing other sexual problems, many men and women temporarily avoid sexUal situations after they get divorced, are widowed, or end a relationship. Sex could lead to intimacy and they are still recovering from the emotional fallout from their last intimate relationship. As a result, they "take themselves out of the game" for a while.

Many of us have aversions to specific aspects of sex. Because of the negative messages we received as children, we may feel disturbed or disgusted by certain sexual acts or various body parts. Women's genitals, for instance, are sometimes assumed to be unclean or even repulsive. Some of us abandon this notion completely. Others compensate for it, using feminine hygiene products—and contributing to a multimillion-dollar industry, which exists precisely because of our discomfort with female genitals. At the extreme are people who interpret the original message to mean that sex itself is dirty and disgusting and avoid any contact with female sex organs under any circumstances.

In addition, people who avoid certain aspects of sex may have aversions to:

  • male genitals
  • female genitals
  • their own genitals
  • homosexual activity
  • heterosexual activity
  • secretions and odors
  • breast touching
  • kissing
  • being seen nude or seeing a partner nude
  • giving or receiving oral sex
  • anal sex

For the most part, people with specific sexual aversions may generally enjoy sex and engage in it regularly—as long as they can avoid the aspect that creates feelings of repulsion and anxiety.

However, sexual aversions can extend to aspects of sex that are quite difficult to avoid. To varying degrees, anxiety or disgust may compel people to avoid penetration, sexual arousal, orgasm, pleasure, or sex itself. Obviously, such aversions, and the extremes to which some people are willing to go to avoid them, can create problems. Sometimes fears about certain aspects of sexuality or anxiety about sex or intimacy in general become so extreme that actual phobias develop.

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