What Sexually Frustrated Men Need to Understand About Their Partners

Your frustration is most likely a symptom of a bigger issue

Y.L. Wolfe
Candour

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I find it endlessly frustrating that I have to say, again and again, that yes, women like sex. Yes, women want sex. Generalization though it may be, it is very often true.

And yet again and again, I hear men complaining that women don’t like sex, don’t need sex, don’t want sex. They’re dissatisfied, they’re not getting enough, their partners are inhibited or unresponsive, they’re angry, they’re frustrated. And somehow, that translates to the strengthening of the myth that women don’t like sex.

Guys…with all due respect, you need to stop perpetuating this damaging belief. You need to listen. You need to understand.

Your frustrations, anger, and dissatisfaction are legitimate and real. That is not in question. But those feelings and the circumstances in which you find yourself are symptoms of a bigger issue.

Here’s what’s really going on:

The sexual conversation still mostly centers around men.

Most women I know were raised in a culture that talked endlessly about men’s sexual pleasure — his healthy proclivity to masturbate, his need to…

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Y.L. Wolfe
Candour

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