Sexual frustration
Sexual frustration is a sense of dissatisfaction stemming from a discrepancy between a person's desired and achieved sexual activity. It may result from physical, mental, emotional, social, and religious or spiritual barriers. It may also derive from not being satisfied during sex, which may be due to issues such as anorgasmia, anaphrodisia, premature ejaculation, delayed ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, or an incompatibility or discrepancy in libido.
Sexual frustration can result from an individual's lacking one or more of the organs needed for achieving sexual release. This may occur when a male is born without a penis or has it removed, or when a female's clitoris is removed for cultural or medical reasons.
Involuntary celibacy is a form of sexual frustration. Historical methods of dealing with sexual frustration have included fasting and the taking of libido suppressants such as anaphrodisiacs or antaphrodisiacs. Distress, when derived from sexlessness, has been linked by some analysts to a lack of oxytocin. Sexual frustration can be pertinent despite an individual being sexually active, as may be the case for example with sexually active hypersexual people.
