Men Rejecting Sex

I've posted previously about the pain that accompanies sexual rejection. Both men and women typically feel undesirable, unwanted, and unloved when a partner frequently refuses sex or goes to great lengths to avoid it.

In the cultural stereotype, there's a man who's always raring to go and a woman who's rarely, if ever, interested. Of course, we know that men can also have very little desire. Women who want an active sex life experience a different kind of rejection when their partner turns down their attempts to initiate sex. It's different because of women's conditioning.

Women are conditioned to be objects of desire, and their self-esteem often rests in how desirable they feel. In their early experiences with men, women are the recipients of sexual attention. That attention is sometimes wanted and sometimes not, but either way, women set the sexual limits. Sexual disinterest from a male in dating realtionships is more the exception than the rule.

Tomorrow I'll talk about what happens when women encounter the exception.