How Shame Can Impact Your Sex Life

Sexual shame is very common and can:

• Disrupt your body's sexual responses

• Distract you from the experience

• Prevent connection

• Create stress in the body

• Impact your sexual functioning

• Decrease libido

• Psychologically impact you

• Lead to isolation

• Negatively impact your mental health

So many people consciously and unconsciously associate shame with sex.

Whether it has come from culture, religion, family beliefs around sex or people's own negative/harmful experiences, it has a vast and damaging impact.

It holds many captive and inhibits positive intimate experiences and relationships from being able to occur.

Great harm also happens when people with shame-based beliefs around sex harass and bully others for the way they express themselves.

The roles of somatic therapy and holistic healing play such a big part in helping shame shift and offer individuals the opportunity to feel much safer and liberated within their own bodies.