Sex and relationships after treatment for prostate cancer

Prostate cancer treatments can affect your sex life. These changes to your sex life and relationships can be difficult to cope with. Support is available.

Your diagnosis of prostate cancer and its treatments can cause a loss of interest in sex. This is also called a low libido or low sex drive.

Radiotherapy to the prostate gland can affect your sex life in different ways. Some side effects such as loose poo or pain around the anus can affect you when having sex.

You might not be able to have children after prostate cancer treatment. It can help to understand more about how treatment affects your fertility.