“Spectatoring” is the art of worrying about sex while you’re having it. Rather than paying attention to the pleasant and tingly things your body is experiencing, it’s like you’re floating above the bed watching, noticing how your breasts fall or the squish of cottage cheese on the back of your thigh or the roll at your belly, or you’re worried about the sex you’re having instead of enjoying the sex you’re having. And worry is the opposite of arousal. It is the antiarousal, because anxiety slams on the brakes of your sexual inhibition system. Turning off anxiety eases off the brakes, letting your sexual response flow smoothly forward. We know the phrase “performance anxiety” because men experience a similar phenomenon, worrying
about whether or not they’ll be able to get and sustain an erection – which, in turn, makes it more difficult for them to get erections. Women, whose erections are nonobvious and unnecessary,
strictly speaking, for intercourse, haven’t been given credit for this particular problem, but it affects us too, often in the form of spectatoring.
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