Sex is important because when there is a feeling of understanding and appreciation between two people – sex can make life together something special. It shows ‘you mean more to me than others do’. (Shere Hite)
The best and most complete answer I have found is by a Dr. Cindy Meston who wrote the book: Why Women Have Sex.. coauthored with David Bush PhD. If you really want to learn the complexity.. and the simplicity go there.
Women like to recommend books rather than talk from their own experience. Please could you summarise the main points that Cindy is making? I assume you have read the book? I cannot buy every book that women suggest. It would be helpful to know what you found enlightening about this book. The point of my question, is that no woman of any age group ever talks about enjoying eroticism and sexual pleasure as men like to do. This hardly suggests that women are enjoying sex as men do. Women talk of emotional pleasures and the rewards of the wider relationship - affection, loving companionship and support.
sorry.. no I cannot. The issue is complex, multidimensional and worthy of study for those who want to know the answer to the question posed. Alternatively.. you could link https://www.athenainstitute.com/lc.html
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Few books are explicit about sex. Kinsey and Hite's willingness to be explicit probably explains in part why they were so unpopular. I have found few other authors who do more than waffle about sexuality. They really haven't a clue. But women seem to be reassured by vague promises of orgasm with a lover. It's all just fiction sadly...
I would like to emphasise that my work (like that of Kinsey and Hite) focuses specifically and explicitly on female sexual response. This has nothing whatsoever to do with platonic love. Sexual response is an instinctive (cannot be consciously fabricated) reaction of the brain to erotic stimuli. The resulting erotic arousal causes blood to accumulate in the genitals (the phallus) and makes orgasm possible.
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