My boyfriend stopped having sex with me

After our first date, I invited him back to my place, where I had every intention of having sex with him. We started making out and it was lovely. When the momentum stalled, I tried to get it on track by asking if he had a condom. Confused, yes, but not mad.

Contrary to popular belief, most men do not want sex all the time, particularly as they get older. According to UK counselling service Relate, in the last ten years there has been a 40 per cent increase in the number of men claiming to have gone off sex. And a recent study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that There are many reasons for this, both physical and psychological, and they often work in combination. And erectile dysfunction is surprisingly common: statistics show that it affects over 50 per cent of men aged between 40 and 70 at some time. Work stress, particularly redundancy or unemployment, which negatively affect his self-esteem, can make his sex drive plummet.

I get my inspiration for articles from the stories I hear people tell me and the pleas for advice I get. The story is almost always the same, too. The sex was great at the start , then all of a sudden, it grinded to a halt.

I am at such a loss as to what to do and feel that I cant talk about this with anyone I know. It just feels embarrassing or too honest. My boyfriend and i started dating a year and a half ago. We immediately connected as friends and a month later, after a night of drunken fun, we had sex. I was just getting out of a toxic relationship and wasn't ready for a relationship or public dating but we continued sleeping together for months.