Sallamandrina wrote:
I'm not sure how much this helps - I think for some men here the problem is that this important part of their life is never or rarely satisfied for reasons they can't control, so they don't have the chance to achieve sexual balance and maturity.
You couldn't have said it better. And there seem to be very few women who find pleasure in providing the "service" of helping a guy achieve that balance.
Sallamandrina wrote:
But you still get the urges? Is there anything a doctor could do to help you reduce your testosterone levels? To be blunt, this narrows your chances to get a partner, but it's not impossible. I was convinced I'll never get married because I was unable to share my personal space with someone else more than 3 days in a row (I know it's not the same)
I am kind of offended by that suggestion about a doctor taking away the urges, and that solving the problem. There are many ways to be sexual other than having full sexual intercourse, some which I suspect might actually be more fulfilling to me. So to have the idea that sexuality has to be about one thing seems really narrow-minded. And while on your comment, I might find it hard to share my personal space with someone more than 3
hours at a time, never mind 3 days.
So to answer the topic of this thread in general, it seems men and women both make a big deal out of sex in different ways (whether it is
too big a deal is a subjective matter). I think men are more bothered by not having an outlet for their sexual feelings, but women make a much bigger deal out of the transition from a platonic relationship to any form of sexual play. If I'm any indication, men would be happy with sexual play being "sprinkled" among all sorts of relationships with women, but women consider anything that requires that a man touch their body sexually to be a big thing that redefines the whole relationship much more seriously.