How It Feels as a Woman When Your Partner Doesn’t Want to Have Sex with You
Balancing and acting on the feelings of empathy with rejection.
*This article is based on a personal relationship between a cis woman and cis male*
We take the male sexual desire for women for granted.
You see it in the movies, the woman complaining of a headache as the man sticks his erection into her back.
“Not tonight, darling. I have a headache,” she murmurs as she rolls over, pretending to fall asleep.
We know that men overall have a stronger desire to have sex with us more than we do with them over time. Women are more accustomed to negating sexual advances of men on a broad scale from subtle extended looks to being physically handled. It is behavior that is so universally accepted that it can be joked about in a children’s cartoon.
Of course, women instigate sex, enjoy various types of sex, and dress in clothes that make them feel sexy for themselves as much as a man, but women’s sexual journey of liberation compared to men’s is arguably not at the same point. Women overall are still generally pursued sexually at a higher frequency than men are by women.
