Why we might be in the middle of a sex recession—and the different factors that may be driving it
According to the Today.com poll, sexually unsatisfied women were also afraid to talk about it with partners. This fear sabotages any possibility of improving their sexual lives. And fear drives yet more stress and disconnection. It becomes a negative cycle.
The first step is recognizing that this fear is part of a bigger picture. Our culture has an ambivalent love-hate relationship with sex. I call this"lewd/prude nation." Don't forget that our Puritanical roots are sex- and pleasure-negative. This shows up as a preoccupation with sex and avoidance of accepting our sexuality. Case in point? We don't do an effective job of providing sexthat is pleasure-positive.
This same ambivalence shows up in big gaps in the literature when it comes to research. Sex scientists can't get funding. We are asked why we don't do something" important" like studying cancer. Case in point: It wasn't untilBasic wiring.is a"real thing." These debates continue because of the stigma that prevents comprehensive research from being conducted to give us better basic information about our sexual selves.
Our ambivalence about sexuality is even more glaring when it comes to women. We have a deep and wide double standard when it comes to women as sexual beings. Women are expected to be sex objects, based on appearance. We are flooded with images of the perfect female form. We obsess about our bodies. Some girls and young women develop
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