# Why do I feel like throwing up when I get sexually excited? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 23, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964 "2006-05-23T21:35:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vpriest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/49beb7/32.png) [@vpriest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vpriest)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/21 "2006-05-25T00:26:19Z")
[QUOTE=Diamonds02] Does this happen to anyone else? What causes this? [/QUOTE] Have you been sexually abused in the past? Or pressured in some emotional way? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/22 "2006-05-25T02:55:41Z")
[QUOTE=Diamonds02] **Why do I feel like throwing up when I get sexually excited?** [/QUOTE] Whaddaya want? Sex is disgusting! So is eating food,\* but we don’t let that stop us! \*Just ask anybody to open their mouth in the middle of chewing. You’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/23 "2006-05-25T03:57:03Z")
Looking on the bright side, that’s probably better than other people feeling nausea when you get sexually excited. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/24 "2006-05-25T04:28:13Z")
[hijack]A friend of mine complained that he couldn’t have sex. Every time he got an erection he fainted from loss of blood. Rimshot.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/25 "2006-05-25T04:51:20Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Whaddaya want? Sex is disgusting! [/QUOTE] Ordinarily, it’s just _other people’s sex_ that’s disgusting. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/26 "2006-05-25T15:53:37Z")
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd] Ordinarily, it’s just _other people’s sex_ that’s disgusting. [/QUOTE] Particularly your parents’. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/27 "2006-05-25T17:14:39Z")
There was a girl I was nuts about in High School and I would always be popping rolaids when we did stuff together. Never helped. Could have been testosterone I suppose. It’s not like I was running around all the time with an erection and ready to vomit, but I did feel nauseous a lot of the time I was around her. What a crazy time! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/28 "2006-05-25T20:36:43Z")
[QUOTE=Ryan\_Liam] what about shakes when you get excited? [/QUOTE] Chocolate or strawberry? Anyway, I’d rather have sex than a shake. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2006, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/29 "2006-05-25T20:40:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Chocolate or strawberry? Anyway, I’d rather have sex than a shake. [/QUOTE] Do both! ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/30 "2006-05-30T19:32:04Z")
[QUOTE=gigi] Do both! [/QUOTE] Great idea… so I did! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964/31 "2006-05-30T20:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=Diamonds02] Oh yeah, if I get sexually excited while sleeping, I don’t get the nausea. [/QUOTE] Um, how do you know? And, how do you know? 😕 I mean, you’re a chick, so how do you know that you’re sexually excited while you’re sleeping? Do you mean that you dream about sex? Or does your boyfriend have sex with you while you’re sleeping? Either way, how do you know that you _don’t_ get nausea? Maybe you just don’t dream about it/remember it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-i-feel-like-throwing-up-when-i-get-sexually-excited/357964.md?page=1)