“Larger muscles such as your butt, thighs, and hips might tense or spasm and you may notice an increased breath and heart rate,” Tanner adds.Įmotionally, you might feel vulnerable, underwhelmed, excited, good, soft, or open, just to name a few. You may even get a bit red and splotchy on your chest, neck, or face. “You may also experience increased sensitivity to touch on your erogenous zones, including your genitals, inner thigh, ear, armpits, lips, and feet,” Tanner says.Īnd, due to shifts in blood flow, you might feel yourself getting warm or flush. Physically, “you might feel your nipples, clit, or penis swell and become larger and harder,” says certified sex therapist Casey Tanner, MA, LCPC, expert for LELO, a luxury pleasure product company.
And no matter the definition, it feels different for everyoneĮmotionally, physically, spiritually, and mentally, “sex feels really different depending on who you are, who your partner is, what their body is like, the acts you try, and so much more,” Reeves says.īeyond just changing person to person, what sex feels like can change for one person day to day based on things like:
