LadyEllen -> RE: Female Desire (4/20/2009 11:08:17 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DemonKia What I found resonated most strongly for me, at this point in time, was the following: - The generally accepted therapeutic notion that, for women, incubating intimacy leads to better sex is, Meana told me, often misguided. "Really," she said, "women's desire is not relational, it's narcissistic" — it is dominated by the yearnings of "self-love," by the wish to be the object of erotic admiration and sexual need. Still on the subject of narcissism, she talked about research indicating that, in comparison with men, women's erotic fantasies center less on giving pleasure and more on getting it. "When it comes to desire," she added, "women may be far less relational than men." - For me, intimacy is important, but so is feeling desired, something I didn't really put my finger on specifically until after ruminating on this article . .... . Interestingly, I feel that a lot of transvestites are motivated by this kind of narcissistic drive too. But then I also believe that such narcissism in most people generally is active; sex after all (what I remember of it at least) is always better when you feel desired and make the other feel desired too - each feeds the other. E
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