If getting your partner to have sex feels like an act of tug-of-war, you may both be struggling with sexual desire discrepancy, or differing sex drives.

Are you suffering from low libido or lack of sex because of these common issues?

So, can the pill mess with your sex drive? The answer, like the female orgasm, is complicated.

Another study published in Springer found that women who masturbated often had a higher sex drive.

Another phallic food, carrots offer quite a bit in the way of libido-boosting

Maybe you’re like me, and need to feel emotionally sound to feel aroused. And yet, you thought you felt well enough throughout this pandemic to be in the mood.

Once a man gets to know his partner well—all her fears, insecurities, childhood traumas, dreams, issues, goals, and all that—he can’t see her as a sexual object. It can almost be easier for men to try bold and nasty things in bed with women they don’t know very well. For them it can feel like, how are they supposed to put a gag ball in the mouth of a woman whose grandmother they helped recover from surgery?

So you had a pregnancy scare. Whoops. You already went through your own horrific emotional roller coaster with this one. But you got over it and your partner hasn’t. He’s terrified to have sex again. He never wants to feel that lump in this throat that he felt when you told him your period was late. So he hasn’t touched you in weeks.

On "The Breakfast Club," Joe Budden says sex is just not a priority for him right now. And he'd be ok if he and Cyn never had it again.

You have told your partner that you two are not going to watch that movie he wants to watch because there are too many sex scenes in it. It is not fair of him to make you watch other people do it when you don’t get to do it.

My partner doesn’t have a very high sex drive. He takes a medication that nearly kills his libido and, while I may have some pull in this relationship, I cannot tell him to stop taking useful medication. That being said, while I understand why he needs to take his medication, that doesn’t eliminate the effects […]

Don’t ignore a low sex drive—it’s often a symptom of a deeper issue that you should look into.