What causes sweating during sex?

Sweating during sex is actually a normal phenomenon, because sex does require physical strength. However, if your physical constitution is weak, or if you are nervous, fearful, or worried, then sweating will become more serious.

1. Scientists link biological responses during sex to a person's neural type. People's sexual behavior types are divided according to the types of reactive behaviors and individual differences: such as clingy type and agitated type. Some people reach an excited plateau state as soon as they enter the state.

2. Excitable people tend to be more agitated during sex; inhibited people tend to be more clingy. The intensity of various physiological reactions during sexual life is determined by the response of a person's autonomic nervous system function. According to the physiological laws of sexual response, sexual intercourse will inevitably produce emotional excitement, such as increased heartbeat, rapid breathing, muscle contractions, skin flushing, increased blood pressure, etc., and the sweat gland system will also react. However, the intensity of this excitement phenomenon is determined by the above-mentioned nerve types and autonomic nervous function.

3. Therefore, the strength of the reaction cannot be explained solely by the physical weakness or fullness. A young man with a great physique may sweat during the entire sexual activity because he is an agitated type and his autonomic nervous system functions very flexibly and sensitively. But people with the clinging type rarely sweat or only sweat slightly.

4. There are generally two explanations for profuse sweating:

One is a physical problem. For example, if you are weak and sick, or malnourished, you will sweat profusely with the slightest movement, even if it is not sexual intercourse. This phenomenon fully reflects the disorder of nerve function and the inability to support the balance and coordination of physiological state.

The second is psychological problems, which are common in situations of excitement, tension, fear, and worry. It is particularly worth mentioning that people with sexual dysfunction, such as impotence and premature ejaculation, have uncontrollable anxiety every time they make love, worrying that the penis cannot erect or that they will ejaculate prematurely. Due to excessive mental tension, sexual excitement cannot be concentrated locally, but spreads throughout the body, which inevitably leads to sweating. Just like some people who fail repeatedly in exams, labor, work, or experiments, and sweat profusely in anxiety, they are definitely not physically weak, it is purely the result of psychological tension and stress.