Well, in a nutshell, yes.  When you don’t get enough sleep, certain parts of your body shut down, including your critical thinking patterns, concentration, sometimes your appetite, motor skills, and energy, and yes, this includes your sex drive.  Many times lack of sleep can really impact our sex drive, as well as our ability to sexually perform at peak levels. 

This is part of the reason we are seeing a spike in male sexual enhancement products that are designed to not only enhance a man’s sexual appetite, but also enhance his performance, by giving energy as well as helping to increase the blood flow to the penis, which is crucial in maintaining an erection, and getting an erection in the first place. 

So, if you are experiencing any type of sexual dysfunction problems such as lack of libido or inability to get or maintain an erection for very long, and you had never experienced these types of sexual problems in the past, look at how your life is going.  Are you burning the candle at both ends, working a lot, waking up too early and going to bed too late? 

This combination, which unfortunately is all too common in today’s goal and career oriented world, has really taken it’s toll on men and women’s sex lives, and we are consequently seeing a lot of relationship and marital strife, an increase in marriage counseling and sexual counseling, and a huge increase in business for natural male sexual enhancement and female sexual enhancement products, both natural and herbal like Deer Antler Plus, as well as medical such as Viagra (which consequently is actually used for both men and women). 

If you are burning the candle at both ends of the day, try relaxing, and try to get to bed so that you get at least 7-8 hours of sleep.  I know for me, I feel much more “in the mood” when I’m well rested and energetic, and this tends to be on the weekends, which is when I usually catch up on my sleep.  After all, who wants to have half hearted sex when they get home from a ten or eleven hour day of work?  Not many people! 

That’s why it is important, not only for your sexual well being, but your mental and physical well being that you take the time to rest.  Also, yoga and other relaxation techniques like this may be worth your time to look into.  Melatonin is an excellent natural sleep aid that has helped me many a time when I haven’t been able to sleep too.