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Question:
My wife and I have been married for 9 weeks. She is 20 and I am 22. I have masturbated for as long as I can remember, but she was the first person I have had sex with. I was not her first. We had great sex up until a couple weeks ago. I will be in the mood, and get an erection. We start having sex, she gets on top, and all of a sudden, I lose my erection. I find her very attractive and she does all the right things. Once it happened once, I started worrying about it happening all the time. Now it has become an issue every time we have sex. Either I have to finish myself by masturbating, or she does it. We have read some books and they just say that we need sex therapy, but it's not really something we can afford right now. I know it is psychological, and not physical. Are there some techniques we can try, or a book that can help us?

Answer:
by Rajendra Sathe:
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Your 'worry' is the cause of your problem to recur again and again. And you are right that you need sex therapy. A good book that comes to my mind is 'A New Male Sexuality' by Bernie Zilbergeld. In that book you will find plenty of information and tips that may help you to get over the difficulty.

Reviewed by: Patricia Fawver Ph.D. in Sexology

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