Research in the May edition of «Journal of Personality and Social Psychology» demonstrated that the more men and women pursue each other, the higher
their sexual desire for each other.
In research I've conducted, I found that length of relationship (in couples who were together for an average of 4 years) didn't impact
sexual desire for women or men, and women and men were equally likely to be the member of the couple with lower sexual desire relative to their partner.
Stress impacts
sexual desire for both men and women.
She is particularly interested in how strong relationships survive the threats of attractive others and inhibit
sexual desire for extra-pair partners.
The biggest driver of high
sexual desire for women were their feelings of intimacy and closeness to their partners, the researchers found.
Passionate Marriage Couples Retreats and Weekends show how your relationship with yourself controls intimate connection and
sexual desire for your partner.
Unless this confrontation takes place, the feeling of being dominated will usually result in losing
sexual desire for their partner and even possibly displacing it outside of the relationship in the form of an affair.
In what ways does Henry's awakening
sexual desire for Lily parallel his mother's passion for Richard Polloco?
Their sexual desire for each other has no outlet because of the rigid morals of the time, and leads Deanie to attempt suicide.
Doris is a bit of a loon, a hoarder, old before her time, whose
sexual desire for a younger man is presented as either pathetic, disgusting or both.
Passionate latino and discrete professional with a high
sexual desire for hairy men.
Another issue involved in
sexual desire for women is how sex makes them feel.
It may, however, be good that
the sexual desire for one's partner weans; it means that we end up staying with our long term partners for the socio - emotional connection and not for the sex.
Luther spoke of the great wish of his father for grandchildren, and then in his open German way averred: «I feel neither passionate love nor strong
sexual desire for my wife, but I cherish her.
Addyi is a non-hormonal treatment that sends chemicals to the brain in the hopes of increasing
sexual desire for women.
«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have
sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.
And it seems that for a small minority of men and women there are persisting but disordered
sexual desires for the same sex.
Surreptitiously, Frankie explores
his sexual desires for other men, on the internet, and in furtive encounters.
Not exact matches
Late last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected Sprout Pharmaceuticals» treatment
for hyposexual
desire disorder (HSDD) in women — in simple terms, a lack of
sexual desire — because it wasn't convinced of the benefits.
«If a person sees life with more acceptance of the waves of
desire and
sexual frequency flowing like waves on the ocean, the better resilience and empathy one has throughout their life
for their own body and that of their partner or partners.»
This is the root of
sexual violence: The idea that women aren't autonomous human beings with the right and ability to say yes to
sexual interactions we want and no to those we don't, but that we're receptacles
for male
sexual desire, that our bodies are up
for grabs (literally, in this case).
«This may be especially valuable
for couples who have trouble directly communicating their
sexual desires.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. said on Thursday it would buy Sprout Pharmaceuticals, whose drug flibanserin (Addyi) became the first approved treatment
for low
sexual desire in women,
for about $ 1 billion with milestone payments.
She co-founded and last served as CEO
for Sprout Pharmaceuticals where, in 2015, the company broke through with the first ever FDA - approved drug
for low
sexual desire in women — dubbed «female Viagra» by the media.
The FDA has twice rejected flibanserin, sometimes touted as a «female Viagra,» first when Boehringer Ingelheim pitched it in 2010 and then again in 2013 after tiny Sprout landed rights to the drug and then mounted its own campaign
for an approval
for hypoactive
sexual desire disorder in premenopausal women.
The company also came under fire
for its links to Slate Pharmaceuticals, which was cited by regulators 5 years ago
for a misleading advertising campaign
for Testopel, a testosterone therapy marketed to improve muscle mass and
sexual desire.
She said the relationship began with a
sexual encounter at the tournament and continued with phone conversations and in - person meetings
for about a year, some of them involving Trump's
desire to put her on his television show, «The Apprentice,» according to the transcript.
«The
sexual revolution that liberated (especially) female
sexual desire from the confines of marriage, and even from love and intimacy, would almost certainly not have occurred had there not been available cheap and effective female birth control — the pill
for the first time severed female
sexual activity from its generative consequences.
David Oliphant, an archdeacon in the Anglican diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, has perceptively remarked that those who condemn homosexuals have very little appreciation of what goes on within the youth who comes to feel the pain and pleasure of
sexual feelings and
desire for comfort from someone of their own sex.
Do we want to be in the position of saying that the satisfaction of
sexual desire alone is an adequate basis
for marriage?
We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex
desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith,
for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms
for sexual expression.
Indeed those people who are so afraid of exploring a new basis
for sexual morality might well examine their own unconscious motivation,
for fear frequently masks
desire which is regarded as unacceptable; when the superstructure of repression is threatened that fear becomes violent anger.
Besides, embracing remarriage would be a concession to the spirit of the age that the pain of unmet
desire for sexual companionship is too great
for God really to want anyone to have to bear.
Nothing but the human ego is involved in the incessant
desire for new thrills and new conquests, which are designed basically to overcome one's own psychological doubts and fears of
sexual dysfunction.
The motivations vary by discipline, but a short list would include the largely physical pleasure of the Utilitarians, the
desire for survival of the Darwinians, the incestuous
sexual cravings of the Freudians, the quest
for power and class domination of the Marxists, and the blind search
for unlimited affluence of modern economists.
This becomes thornier yet
for those who discern in themselves a «homosexual orientation,» as they adopt an identity distinguished essentially by a set of genital
sexual desires that can not morally be fulfilled.
I'm not sure about the»cause and effect» part of it though... I would think that the authority feeds an lustful impulse, and that a
sexual craving /
desire is not necessarily «part» of the need
for authority.
Though I am encouraged that Hill sees potential hazards in the use of terms like «gay Christian» and «homosexual Christian,» he, along with Gonnerman and Tushnet, may not sufficiently recognize the problems with describing or defining a person in terms of his or her affective
desire for the same sex (whether that
desire is relational, romantic, or
sexual), in place of the clear definition of our
sexual identity revealed to us by Scripture and the Church.
Or as Tillich has it, «The appetitus of every being to fulfil itself through union with other beings is universal...» (32) Agape, the love that gives with no thought of return; eros, the love that finds the beloved valuable, and philia, the love that shares and works
for the vision of the good - none of these can be reduced to
sexual desire, but all of them in different ways attest to the oneness of love, so evident in
sexual union, as «that which drives everything that is towards everything else that is.»
In this new democracy of
sexual desire the invention of efficient and inexpensive contraceptive devices and of improved drugs
for the cure of venereal diseases is regarded as a signal advance toward the goal of the good life,
for now it is possible to engage freely and widely in
sexual intercourse with little fear of unwanted consequences, in the form of either offspring or infection.
The fact that the human female does not have limited periods of
sexual desire and availability (although she does have times of heightened and diminished
desire), is probably a major reason
for the development of two - parent family life in the dim prehistory of human beings.
The power of the
desire for sexual union stems from a basic truth about the world of living things:
Rejecting the recommendation of a task - force study that such ordination be allowed, the assembly voted instead that only repentant homosexuals who choose celibacy or seek a reorientation of their
sexual desires should be considered as qualified candidates
for ministry.
Once puberty hit, this took on
sexual connotations, as Chris began experiencing «eroticized
desire»
for traits he found in other males that he himself lacked.
In other words, the single striking instance in which it sets itself against prevailing mores and wishes is in the case of
sexual liberty — a case which is perhaps dubious if it is true that a substantial proportion of the generations which have grown up in the
sexual revolution may harbor a secret
desire for that «No.»
Or to put it more mathematically: «It's not good
for man to be alone» + «It's better to marry than burn (with
sexual tension /
desire)» > «A single person has more time to enjoy the things of God»
The point Grenz was trying to make is that sexuality is much bigger than a
desire for sex and therefore single people can live and flourish as
sexual beings apart from marriage.
One way of getting at the point is by considering the celibate man or woman whose specific vocation is not to act genitally but to redirect the
sexual drive,
desire, and equipment
for other ends that are taken as good
for that particular person.
His Juan, far from being meant to engage our sympathy, is
for the most part rather uninteresting: an ordinary profligate, cad, and
sexual predator of noble extraction, with sufficient means to pursue his
desires and without any discernible sign of a conscience to impede the pursuit.
It can provide guidance
for both heterosexual and homosexual Christians in choosing faithful expressions of
sexual desire.