The New York Times magazine talks about something that many middle-aged couples successfully avoid talking about for years: “dim desire,” as the Times so nicely puts it. According to one expert quoted in the story, between 7 and 15 percent of all young and middle-aged women feel distressed over the absence of desire. Male readers should note well, and well before recommending the pharmaceutical solution that is coincidentally mentioned in the post below, that much research of women’s low sexual desire leads to these three questions: What if the lack of excitement is
due to a partner’s ineptitude? What if it’s caused by a lover’s
emotional disconnection? Is it the patient who has the condition, or the partner, or
the couple?
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Sunday, June 1, 2025
The husband thinks her desire has dimmed because she doesn’t have sex with him. He has to work 12-14 hours per day to support her extravagance and he is too tired when he gets home.
On the other hand, she is having sex with two or three other men, so she does nothing to arouse hubby! She is content to just let him do without as long as she has credit cards and a checkbook.