“Why am I so horny recently?” You might be asking yourself that if it’s been five days in a row of having sex with your partner, and yet, on the sixth day, you still wake up ready for another round.
Different people have different sex drives, and they can vary depending on various things happening in life. And as long as your horniness doesn’t obstruct your daily activities, having sex as often as you crave is totally healthy and normal.
But if you’re still itching to find out what could be the reason behind your high sex drive, then let’s look at the science behind why you feel horny.
Why Am I So Horny When Other People Are Not?
It’s hard to pinpoint one specific reason why you feel horny. Sex drive can change with years and even seasons of the year, but here are the seven most common reasons behind high sex drive:
New Relationship
If you’re in a new relationship, it’s completely normal that you’re thinking to yourself, “why am I so horny?” more often. At the beginning of a new relationship, our hormones go crazy, making us more sexually aroused by our partner. Hence, you’re hornier and have more sex.
Two hormones particularly are responsible for making you feel high on love for your partner — dopamine and oxytocin. These hormones could be responsible for your increased libido at the start of the new relationship. Usually, this period can last anywhere between 3 months and two years.
Frequent Masturbation
Our bodies work in wonderful ways. If you’ve been masturbating a lot and exploring your own pleasure, the chances are that you’re feeling hornier because of it. Masturbation, just like quality sex, increases the release of hormones like testosterone and dopamine, which are responsible for your arousal.
Now, when you go through times in your life when you’re not having sex and are not engaging in sexual activity, completely ignoring your body’s desire for sex, it’ll start ignoring its arousal, lowering your desire for sex.
So, if you’ve recently got a new sex toy and started enjoying quality time with yourself more often, it might be a reason why you feel so horny.
Quality Sex
If you’ve been having lots of quality sex with your partner, you might be feeling hornier because your body craves more of the good thing. Once again, this all goes back to the hormones your body releases during sex. So, keep doing what you’ve been doing with your partner so far because, clearly, it’s working well!
Pregnancy
During pregnancy, women might find themselves feeling hornier than usual. All that is due to estrogen, which might affect women’s desire to have sex. For their partners, a sexual desire might be higher when their partner is pregnant if they have a pregnancy kink/fetish.
If you consult with your doctor, and they give you the green light to have sex and enjoy orgasms, nothing is stopping you from having as much sex with your partner as you desire. However, you might need to find new, more comfortable sex positions to accommodate the changes in your body.
That Time of the Month
You might be feeling hornier at certain times of the month, depending on where in your menstrual cycle you are. During the first half of your cycle, your estrogen levels are high. This is also a phase of your cycle when ovulation happens, so naturally, women tend to be hornier around that time.
A study published in 2004 revealed that women tend to initiate sex more often when they’re ovulating. So, if you find yourself asking, “why am I so horny during certain times of the month?” it might be because you’re ovulating.
That Time of the Year
We know that a change in seasons affects our mental health. And just like a change in seasons can affect our mental health, it can also affect our sex drives. For example, one study found that testosterone levels (a hormone that plays an important part in how horny you feel) in both men and women are higher during fall than summer.
So, some people might actually feel hornier in the fall rather than in the summer. On the other hand, depression is linked to lower sex drive in some people, so if you suffer from seasonal depression, you might find your sex drive dip in the colder months compared with summer.
Change in Your Lifestyle
Have you been working out consistently? Did you make changes to your diet and consume more nutritious food? Or maybe you’ve changed jobs, and all of a sudden, your stress levels are lower? All of these lifestyle changes can have a huge impact on your libido.
Foods like dark chocolate, avocados, and salmon are all rich in nutrients that support overall health, which means that they can improve your sexual health as well. In addition, working out boosts your confidence in your body, leading you to want to engage in sexual activity more often.
Not So Common Causes
There are also a few extreme exceptions that might be responsible for a high sex drive in some people:
Sex Addiction
Sex addiction, like most behavioral addictions, is controversial because doctors don’t agree on whether it should count as an addiction or not. Technically, being addicted to behaviors like having sex or playing video games doesn’t cause physical addiction like drugs or alcohol.
If the frequency of sex and masturbation doesn’t affect your daily life, you shouldn’t be worried about it. However, if you start to notice that you skip work or school due to the need to always be engaging in sexual activity or if you find yourself engaging in risky sexual behavior, then it might be worth it consulting with your doctor.
Hypersexuality
Hypersexuality disorder is another reason people might have a higher sex drive than others. It’s when a person takes part in out-of-control sexual activities. However, just like sex addiction, it’s not officially recognized as an actual mental health disorder.
People often become hypersexual when they use sex to cope with problems, and some people might become hypersexual when dealing with sexual and non-sexual trauma. If you feel like you might be hypersexual, it’s always best to consult with your doctor, as they will advise you on how to manage your individual situation better.
What To Do When I’m Horny?
If you find yourself feeling horny, here are some things you can do:
Have Sex
If you have a consenting partner, it’s super easy — when you feel horny, have sex with them. Sex has many health benefits like lowering stress levels, and it also helps improve your relationship with your partner. To make things more interesting, you can explore different things with your partner like BDSM, role-play, tantric sex, or mutual masturbation.
Masturbate
Masturbation can be a wonderful way to release pent-up sexual tension and have some quality “me” time. Masturbation also helps you get to know your body and pleasure better, which can lead to better overall satisfaction with partnered sex.
You can play with yourself, try tantric masturbation or treat yourself to a new sex toy that will help you experience orgasms you haven’t felt before.
Meditate
Meditation is wonderful when you feel horny but don’t want to engage in sexual activity and when you’re stressed or struggle with being focused. There are a ton of apps that can help you ease into meditation with their short beginner guided meditations.
Meditate for 10 minutes every day for a month, and you’ll see that you’re feeling overall more balanced and in control of your mind.
Exercise
While some people report that they feel hornier after a workout due to all the testosterone, it can actually help you release some of that pent-up sexual tension while releasing happy hormones to your brain.
Pick a form of exercise you like, whether it’s a walk in a park, running, or a weight lifting session, and go for it.