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Male arousal isn't quite as "simple" for all of us XD  It took me three decades before I even figured out I could achieve it, and even then it still isn't a simple matter.

 

It's just one of those things that I will particularly take notice of, because it's easy to tell a guy with "performance issues" to "oh, just take some Viagra" but depending on what the root of the performance issues are, it could be the complete wrong recommendation.  I have heard about "female Viagra" drugs before that claimed to do things that were not analogous to what Viagra actually does, and I just feel that if they're going to use existing medical names/terminology for new products, it needs to be in a way that's actually faithful to the original, otherwise it will lead to more such situations where guys end up thinking Viagra is a pill that will boost their sex drive.

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12 minutes ago, Apostle said:

Hence my post saying females are more complicated than men!

We were just trying to explain how our desire works for us personally and you kept saying 'oh that doesn't work for me, I need this or that or the other thing' meaning we had to explain ourselves further. Then you brought up the stuff about the handbags which was completely unrelated. Yes female sexual desire can be complicated. So can men's. That's just life for some people. 

 

1 minute ago, Philip027 said:

Male arousal isn't quite as "simple" for all of us XD

Mhmm. That's why I said many times 'obviously it doesn't work that way for all men'. Viagra doesn't work on all me and it actually does work for some women. But we shouldn't have to put a disclaimer under every single post we make lol, #notallmen

 

When people use the term 'female viagra' though they just mean 'drug that will help women enjoy  sex'. They don't mean 'a drug that works on women in the exact same way that viagra works for men'. But yeah for the most part they mean something that aids in clitoral erections and arousal in general so the woman can enjoy sex (because viagra fundamentally means a guy is able to enjoy sex again when issues like ED were previously preventing him from enjoying it).

 

Given that they only finally worked out what the clitoris actually looks like in 2009 though, they're probably a long way off being able to create a drug that can reliably help to get it erect. Lol.

 

 

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2 hours ago, Philip027 said:

and I would have thought they already had all sorts of treatments for something like that.

Alas, you would have thought wrong.

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2 hours ago, Apostle said:

I think you misunderstand me! I was talking about the female mind and the fact that there is some form of compulsion that is not necessarily found in men, like shopping for example. The number of females who shop far exceeds the men. The female mind just works differently to male minds, that's all I was trying to convey.

 

Um, what?  As people said above that’s an individual personality/preference thing.  Some people of all genders love to shop, some are actually compelled to shop (habituated), some hate to shop, and some don’t care.  Same for collecting multiples of things, trying to outdo others, etc.  Because of stereotyping, sexism, and homophobia it may be more socially acceptable (less subject to ridicule) for women to talk openly about certain practices than it is for men and vice versa, but women don’t have “shopping brains.”

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Alas, you would have thought wrong.

I'm pretty sure I'm not, or else they'd have been telling people with things like vaginismus "welp, sorry, you're fucked, nothing we/you can do about that" which I'm also pretty sure is not a thing that actually happens, at least not nowadays and not with any doctor worth their degree

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6 minutes ago, Telecaster68 said:

I imagine there are treatments, but they don't always work to the same extent with different people.

Correct, and they still tend to me more along the lines of “therapy plus pelvic floor exercises plus lube” and less like medication.  Some of that may legitimately be because there isn’t a treatable medical cause, but a lot is that it’s not a condition that has seen extensive research.

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31 minutes ago, Philip027 said:

I'm pretty sure I'm not, or else they'd have been telling people with things like vaginismus "welp, sorry, you're fucked, nothing we/you can do about that" which I'm also pretty sure is not a thing that actually happens, at least not nowadays and not with any doctor worth their degree

It’s worded more nicely but a lot of the advice given isn’t much more useful.

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I imagine there are treatments, but they don't always work to the same extent with different people.

Yeah, but neither does Viagra >_>

 

It's still not the same thing as there being no treatments.

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Viagra and similar drugs treat one very specific cause of erectile dysfunction, and have side effects some people find unmanageable.

 

Vaginismus is plagued by the same problems that long limited effective treatment for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome: it’s often not taken seriously, advice is often along the lines of “learn to manage your stress!”, it’s seen as being weak/a special snowflake rather than a true medical issue, etc.

 

As there’s been more focus on women’s health in recent years that’s slowly changing.

 

I’ll skip past the insurance coverage soapbox.

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I won't deny that it probably gets more medical focus (at least if all the advertisements I hear/see about ED treatment are any indication), but from what I hear, ED is also a typical source of shame and ridicule for males too so it's not like females are alone in that particular department.

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It’s unusual for men to be shamed and ridiculed by their doctors for ED, though.  It’s taken seriously from a medical perspective.

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25 minutes ago, ryn2 said:

Vaginismus is plagued by the same problems that long limited effective treatment for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome: it’s often not taken seriously, advice is often along the lines of “learn to manage your stress!”, it’s seen as being weak/a special snowflake rather than a true medical issue, etc.

I probably should have been more specific here.  I meant this is how the conditions were largely seen within the medical community.

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1) Hate shoes, shopping and only reason I even have one bag is cause womens clothes lack pockets that can fit anything in them. Seriously, just give me a pocket I can put a cell phone in. Not all women like that stuff. 😛

 

2) What ficto describes in wanting a partner to be sexually compatible is basically the same as what worked for me. Sex can happen or not happen, it isnt a requirement and there is lack of pressure. And what we do sexually is only what we both mutually desire. Both I and my partner lack desire for things if the other doesnt want it. 

 

That doesnt make it a dominant or controlling thing though. It is a mutual thing that we both are OK with or without but we both like certain things based on each other enjoying the things. 

 

And having been with non-compatible people and now a compatible one, I would never go back to non-compatible so dont blame ficto for waiting for the right one. The complete lack of pressure and stress around sexual stuff is such a load off my mind being with my spouse. 

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Vaginismus is a recognised condition.  Unfortunately it's also a symptom with many different causes, physical, mental and for asexuals, orientation. The first two are treatable.

 

Full vaginismus makes penetration impossible. Personally I only experienced this a few times. The rest of the time it was just painful and unpleasant. I wasn't exactly repulsed, but the bodily fluids, the odours were abhorrent.

 

I was honest about my lack of interest but dishonest about detail of how I felt as above as I felt it would be hurtful. I didn't realise that my lack of interest was also hurtful because I didn't personally miss it so didn't think others would.

 

I do think it is important for people to understand each other.

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There’s a lot of societal pressure on women to be fashionable and look nice.  A man who takes one suit on a business trip, or wears one suit for a series of interviews, and just changes shirts and/or ties goes unnoticed, where women are expected to be in a new outfit each time.

 

Certainly there are women who enjoy shopping.  There are also men who do.  My most recent partner had way more garments and shoes than I do... probably close to, if not more than, as many shirts as I’ve owned in my whole lifetime.  There are also plenty of all genders who don’t like it at all.

 

There are women who love cars, men who live crocheting, etc.

 

Lots of stereotypes.

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2 hours ago, Apostle said:

Sorry I disagree. It's no coincidence that womens clothes for instance far outnumber mens. Why is that?

Go into any shoe shop and there will be at least twice as many choices of shoes for women as for men. Even the colours are better. Mens shoes are basically all the same. Not had anything much different since the 70's when platforms were introduced!

Social norms. Men aren't 'allowed' to like shopping or bright colours, women are pressured into looking 'fashionable' at all times. Enbies don't even exist.

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I hate shopping but mostly because of crowds and gratuitous consumption.  I quite like clothes. I'm female. I'm also asexual. I like to wear flattering clothes but don't care about fashion. And handbags are useful.

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22 minutes ago, alibali said:

I hate shopping but mostly because of crowds and gratuitous consumption.  I quite like clothes. I'm female. I'm also asexual. I like to wear flattering clothes but don't care about fashion. And handbags are useful.

I went shopping for myself for the first time in literally years yesterday because they had a clearance on some tops that would fit me now that I've lost a fair bit of weight (most of my clothes are hanging off me hence why I needed something new). I don't hate or love shopping, it's just something I do for myself when I absolutely have to which is very rarely.

 

What I do hate is the stereotype that females love shopping or love clothes or whatever. Sure plenty do, plenty also don't. And I've met plenty of guys who love shopping and clothes just as much as some females do. Any 'metrosexual' guy who loves to look good is going to spend a fair bit of time shopping. It's definitely a personality thing and not a gender thing.  

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Okay, so Louis XIV matched his furniture to his outfits. Also, he is wearing a ballerina outfit under his robes. I fell like at some point he and his courtiers will all throw of their robes and there will be a big dance number.

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10 minutes ago, Apostle said:

Where have all the men's fashion designers gone?

Perhaps like you they were swayed by the stereotype that fashion was a women’s thing.  :)

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4 hours ago, ryn2 said:

My most recent partner had way more garments and shoes than I do... probably close to, if not more than, as many shirts as I’ve owned in my whole lifetime.  

Yep same with two of my exes (my physical ex and an online one).

 

Here's my physical ex (my two girls dad) 

 

Edit: the rest of this comment is in the spoiler but AVEN broke and enclosed the whole comment in the spoiler which for some reason cannot be edited. I just copied the rest of my comment into a separate response for those who don't read spoilers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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all that leather and chains and pericings and shit cost a LOT of money and yes he actually paid for the stuff that he didn't steal lol. He had a massive wardrobe of dark shit with sculls and studs and leather and stuff. So it's not even the fashionable guys who go out of their way to spend a lot of money to own a lot of clothes. I mean, look at Goth guys.. that stuff doesn't come cheap.

 

One of my exes from AVEN was always ordering himself new tops online because he loves designer T shirts with cool images on the front. Now with my new tops I own like 6 tops and that's more than I've owned in years haha. I own a couple of dresses, a couple of skirts, no pants at all right now, and socks and underwear. And actually.. no all my exes now that I think about it owned a lot more clothes than I do :P

 

10 hours ago, Apostle said:

I was talking about the female mind and the fact that there is some form of compulsion that is not necessarily found in men, like shopping for example. The number of females who shop far exceeds the men.

 

 

My most recent AVEN partner owned a massive album collection. He loved shopping online and at stores and stuff for vinyl albums. Both my brothers own over a thousand dollars worth of games and many thousands of dollars worth of technology each and I know many, many men like that. Think of all the men you know who love to buy the latest gadgets? 

 

Believe me, men often looooove to shop as well, it's just not always clothes they love shopping for lol.

 

(and even then I still hate this gender stereotyping because I myself spend a shitload more money on gadgets and books than I ever have on clothes, as do some other females. My gadget and book collection is probably worth about $6,000 all up but my wardrobe would be worth about $200 at the very most and that's including shoes. The most expensive item of clothing I own is my one bra that fits me which costed $50 because my size doesn't come cheap. But there are plenty of males who love to shop for games, technology, music..  no one can deny they've met men who love to buy these things lol even if they claim they've never met a man who loves clothes)

 

15 minutes ago, Apostle said:

Where have all the men's fashion designers gone?

I'm assuming you've never watched the fashion channel? There are whole catwalk shows for guys fashion. And maybe you don't like modern men's fashion but knowing fashionable men myself, I know it's alive and well haha.

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Sigh, I'm on my phone and the spoiler broke (it literally broke, can't be edited in any way) so I'm just going to post the rest of the comment from under the picture here for those who don't open spoilers.

One of my exes from AVEN was always ordering himself new tops online because he loves designer T shirts with cool images on the front. Now with my new tops I own like 6 tops and that's more than I've owned in years haha. I own a couple of dresses, a couple of skirts, no pants at all right now, and socks and underwear. And actually.. no all my exes now that I think about it owned a lot more clothes than I do :P

 

Apostle said:

"I was talking about the female mind and the fact that there is some form of compulsion that is not necessarily found in men, like shopping for example. The number of females who shop far exceeds the men."

 

 

My most recent AVEN partner owned a massive album collection. He loved shopping online and at stores and stuff for vinyl albums. Both my brothers own over a thousand dollars worth of games and many thousands of dollars worth of technology each and I know many, many men like that. Think of all the men you know who love to buy the latest gadgets? 

 

Believe me, men often looooove to shop as well, it's just not always clothes they love shopping for lol.

 

(and even then I still hate this gender stereotyping because I myself spend a shitload more money on gadgets and books than I ever have on clothes, as do some other females. My gadget and book collection is probably worth about $6,000 all up but my wardrobe would be worth about $200 at the very most and that's including shoes. The most expensive item of clothing I own is my one bra that fits me which costed $50 because my size doesn't come cheap. But there are plenty of males who love to shop for games, technology, music..  no one can deny they've met men who love to buy these things lol even if they claim they've never met a man who loves clothes)

 

Apostle said:

"Where have all the men's fashion designers gone?"

I'm assuming you've never watched the fashion channel? There are whole catwalk shows for guys fashion. And maybe you don't like modern men's fashion but knowing fashionable men myself, I know it's alive and well haha.

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Yes, for me buying books and CDs are my big purchase compulsion. I have had to introduce a quota that I can only buy so many when I go to Dublin and invariably break it

 

Clothes wise, I think they charge me per pound ;)

 

I spend multiples on book than I do on clothes

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14 hours ago, Ficto. said:

what awakened my desire because it took total pressure off me to *need* to preform and gave me the luxury of being able to explore at my leisure

 

14 hours ago, Apostle said:

Yes Ficto, but you are quite a dominant figure in your relationship where he only has sex when YOU want it.


Only wanting sex when a partner wants it means that second partner is "dominant"?!

I would hope most people want to have sex when a partner wants it. I sometimes feel like a monster for pushing past that, but he's willing, and the alternative was worse. It took a lot to accept that it was OK to ask if he tells me it's okay.

This feels like one of your gender stereotype things? A man's gotta screw, he's got "needs" -- his partner is supposed to provide? Oh hell. If this is how sexual men think, maybe it's why I ended up with an ace, it sounds like a repulsive attitude. (In retrospect, I'm pretty sure I was hitting on an ace before this. I look back on myself sometimes, and am fascinated.)

But why wonder what's going on in your head here. Bringing "handbags" into this really said it all. smh.

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18 minutes ago, anisotropic said:

 


Only wanting sex when a partner wants it means that second partner is "dominant"?!

I would hope most people want to have sex when a partner wants it. I sometimes feel like a monster for pushing past that, but he's willing, and the alternative was worse. It took a lot to accept that it was OK to ask if he tells me it's okay.

This feels like one of your gender stereotype things? A man's gotta screw, he's got "needs" -- his partner is supposed to provide? Oh hell. If this is how sexual men think, maybe it's why I ended up with an ace, it sounds like a repulsive attitude. (In retrospect, I'm pretty sure I was hitting on an ace before this. I look back on myself sometimes, and am fascinated.)

But why wonder what's going on in your head here. Bringing "handbags" into this really said it all. smh.

Yeah I was feeling the same but was trying not to let myself get too riled up so close to Christmas :P you expressed my internal thoughts perfectly though. I spent so many years only giving sex when men wanted it that I never had the opportunity to want it for myself. I found out much later that a man who only wants sex when I want it (and has no real interest in sex otherwise) is actually a massive turn on for me and that turns out to be very mutually pleasurable for both of us because he gets off massively on having me gagging for him and loving the sex because I was so aroused, haha.. and I get off on him getting off on my desire. So it's very mutually rewarding and pleasurable and means I never feel pressure which is what instantly kills my libido. If he's going to be expecting me to open my legs every time he is horny then I'm going to 1) feel very used and 2) get instant burnout which will kill any desire I may otherwise have been able to have for him. But knowing instead that he's perfectly happy to masturbate when I'm not ready for sex, but will also be extremely turned on by me wanting it when I do want it.. well, that's the perfect relationship dynamic for me.

 

But yeah it certainly doesn't seem 'domineering' to ask that a man only have sex with me when I myself am ready for it so I can enjoy it properly. I'm merely stating my needs so as not to end up getting used and any man who would potentially be in a relationship with me will be someone who not only is capable of wanting the same, but actively agrees that yes it's important that the woman want the sex as well so she can enjoy it too if it's going to happen!!

 

Of course I'm not saying that the guy isn't allowed to not be in the mood when I am ready for sex, if he's too tired or whatever then that's absolutely okay and I can just masturbate. But in my experience with sexual men they often get really turned on very quickly if the woman they love is touching herself all wet and ready asking them to come and help her orgasm :P That's one of the beautiful things about male sexual arousal - if the lady is ready it's often very easy for her to get the man ready as well. Doesn't work quite so easily the other way around a lot of the time though (unfortunately. Believe me @Apostle my life would have been a lot easier if I could want and enjoy sex because a man was ready for it!)

 

30 minutes ago, anisotropic said:

Oh hell. If this is how sexual men think, maybe it's why I ended up with an ace, it sounds like a repulsive attitude.

Yeah exactly! That's why I spent so many years thinking I was ace because all the sexual men I encountered had an attitude towards sex that turned me off so fast I couldn't make myself want it with them :o The partner who awakened my desire was actually identifying as fully asexual when I met him (as was I). Neither of us realised how much our unique desire patterns would turn the other on. He had never had a girl get aroused enough by him to want to explore sexual things with him, and when I got that arousal he was astonished by his sudden desire to engage in sexual activity with me, it was something he'd never experienced before. And for me, when I first tentatively admitted I'd been thinking about him like that (thinking he would reject me because of him being ace etc) it was a massive turn on having him get so sexually excited by my arousal. We pretty much became hypersexual with each other for the year we were together just because our desire patterns synched so perfectly. He'd never even mentioned sex before that because he just didn't think about it, and that's what first started turning me on a bit, knowing I'd never be under pressure from this beautiful, smart, funny guy (who was also a good friend by that point) to have sex with him. Then to have him react to my arousal with so much lust when I actually just assumed he would reject me.. well, we were perfectly sexually matched and I was often ready for it two times a day or more as a result haha.. the lack of pressure or expectation was just a massive turn on for me.

 

We had to split up (amiably!) because of distance and family pressures for him, but if I'm ever to have a partner again, I won't expect anything less than that perfect sexual synchronicity. I'm not going to sacrifice my own sexual enjoyment just so a man can get his rocks off whenever he feels like it :o I'd rather we BOTH love and enjoy the sex mutually and I don't think that's such a tall order at all, I actually that's something all sexual women (actually, all sexual people in general) should aim for in their sexual relationships where possible. Obviously I'm not talking about mixed relationships here but you know what I mean. If you're actively seeking a sexual partner like I am, you should seek one who will match your desire patterns to such an extent that you'll both always have mutually pleasurable sex. But now I'm just lecturing so I'll shut up, I get that it's not always that easy. It's just for me, I'd rather be single forever than ever have sex that I don't want again. If I am not gagging for it then I'm sorry, it just won't happen.

 

43 minutes ago, anisotropic said:

But why wonder what's going on in your head here. Bringing "handbags" into this really said it all. smh.

Yep. Trying to have a discussion about certain women's unique sexual desire patterns to have sexual male compare that to how many handbags women all apparently have to own 😕 Blergh. I'm not sure why I even bother engaging some days.

 

But thanks for voicing my internal thoughts for me. You and I disagree a lot but it's always refreshing when we do agree ^_^:cake:

 

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