COVID-19 Vaccines Won't Affect Your Sexual Performance, but COVID-19 Might
It's been nearly a year since the first COVID-19 vaccines received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but some people still have questions about the shots—especially about the possibility of sexual side effects—that are keeping them from getting vaccinated.
Nicki Minaj, for instance, wrote on Twitter this week that she'll get vaccinated only “once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now.” Minaj then followed that up with a bizarre and questionable story about her cousin in Trinidad who “won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent,” she wrote. “His testicles became swollen. His friend was weeks away from getting married, now the girl called off the wedding.” But the truth is that there's no research to suggest that the COVID-19 vaccines can alter sexual performance—including sperm production, erectile dysfunction, or swollen testicles.
“There is no evidence that vaccines, including COVID-19 vaccines, cause male fertility problems,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The most common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines are slightly different depending on which vaccine you get, but they generally include pain at the injection site, fatigue, headache, fever, and chills. Those side effects are temporary (lasting just a day or two, typically) and tend to be more severe after the second dose than the first.
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On the other hand, there is some preliminary evidence that the coronavirus can cause issues with sexual performance—especially for those with penises. For instance, a small study published in the journal Andrology looked at survey data for 100 sexually active men (25 had COVID-19 at some point, 75 did not). Their results showed that men who had COVID-19 were much more likely to report having erectile dysfunction than those who hadn't had the virus.
https://www.self.com/story/covid-19-vaccines-wont-affect-sexual-performance
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