OK. first thing, don't pressure her about orgasms. Being able to cum for women is a very mental thing. Pressure kills it. If she enjoys sex without an orgasm, let that be OK for the moment. I don't always cum when my husband and I have sex, but I always enjoy it. It's a lot harder for women to cum than it is for men, sometimes it just doesn't happen.
Second: both of you get this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LD1ORBI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
really really good book about female sexuality.
That E3 must have been the highlight of Steve Race's career. He had left the failing Sega just about a year before over difficulties with (among other things) SOJ's refusal to allow him to do these kind of stunts.
Some other funny and silly things Race did during E3 1995 included putting PlayStation napkins on every table at the SEGA party, and releasing PlayStation balloons all over the Convention.
It really is too bad that less than a year after launching the PlayStation both him Olaf Olafsson(the guy talking) and most of the nonjapanese staff at Sony's Interactive Entertainment division got fired, despite the Play Station doing amazingly.
if your interested in more of the story the end of the book console wars covers it quite extensively. Its mostly a book about SEGA and even at that mostly about Tom Kalinske but its got a lot of good background on both Nintendo and Sony as well.
Hey OP, this is clearly a difficult situation, and I cannot fathom the emotional pain and turmoil you're feeling right now. I know this will sound strange, but I'd like to suggest that you and your GF both read, "Come As You Are", by Dr. Emily Nagoski.
https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform-ebook/dp/B00LD1ORBI
While the book is more geared toward women, I think you'll find the information very enlightening, especially the chapters that discuss sexual "accelerators" and "brakes". The book may give both of you enough insight to be able to make behavioral changes.
I hope you're able to work through these issues, but should that not happen, reading this book will at least provide you with some great insight.
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> Feminism has always been a disease.
Yep. It was never about "equality". The Suffragette Bombers: Britain's Forgotten Terrorists
Hey r/kappa! Since I was not chosen for the winter komike, that means I'll have more time to focus on improving my fundamentals, as well as doing more fighting game related NSFW art. Hopefully I'll be able to post here more often from now on!
I have also been reading quite a lot recently. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari has been as inspirational as lord Daigo's book to me. Highly Recommended.
TL;DR it's by textual analysis and one of the best treatments of your particular inquiry is from Bart Erhman's Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are.
You should be able to attain a copy through inter-library loan. If not, I've got a digital copy that I may consider sharing with you.
Here’s a good discussion: Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IWR3JW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_iAP2FbG2JTHG7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Here’s another good discussion about credibility of Scriptures: Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEGJF8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_oGP2Fb1TJ0V3N?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
I got a lot of out of the book Come as You Are by Emily Nagosaki. It talks a lot about female sexuality, including anatomy, pleasure, and how to work through some guilt. I'd recommend it for both you and her, actually.
Amazon link -https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform-ebook/dp/B00LD1ORBI/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1498922611&sr=8-2&keywords=come+as+you+are TED talk by the author - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HILY0wWBlBM
According to the book Sapiens, this very paradigm is why men are in positions of power and not women. Men, and male animals in general, have to be aggressive in order to win a mate. They also must learn to compete against other males for the same female. Females, on the other hand, could simply sit back and let the males come to them. They could afford to passive and not intervene in conflicts between males because they had no incentive otherwise. So evolution conditioned males to be aggressive, competitive and able to navigate conflict, while conditioning females to be passive and conflict-averse. You can easily see how this would result in men, throughout history, excelling in the power struggle while women really didn't even participate.
edit: link to book. it's really interesting
Reminds me of the book Killers of the Flower Moon- about what was done to the Osage people who owned land where oil was discovered.
They haven't changed a bit. Same terrorists they have always been:
The Suffragette Bombers: Britain's Forgotten Terrorists
Check out the reviews.
I am late to this thread but tacking onto your post to mention Come as you are is an amazing book about prioritizing female pleasure that I can't recommend enough to my girlfriends.
I'm late to this post but damn. Here's me, another LLF who's only remotely interested in sex about the time I'm ovulating. This is a new pattern I'm discovering in my mid-30's as I've been on hormonal BC since 18 and now off. It's getting more and more noticeable (and predictable) every month.
So circlesdontexist, if you need more actual "proof" that OP isn't some sort of freak of nature, it's actually pretty common. It sounds like you would REALLY benefit from reading this book, you are a little too ignorant on the subject to be so damn loud about it:
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski
Hahahah, after readying the actual book Console Wars, I wouldn't be surprised :) The business behind our favorite childhood consoles is pretty interesting. I highly recommend it: https://www.amazon.com/Console-Wars-Nintendo-Defined-Generation-ebook/dp/B00FJ379XE
I suggest you read this book, that will let you know how normal you are : Come As You Are by Emily Nagowski.
And that you get HIM to read this book: Woman's Anatomy of Arousal by Sheri Winston, so that he can learn how normal you are, and ALSO so that he can gain an understanding of how women's parts actually work. It will help him realize that it's not just you, he may actually just be a truly selfish lover, who hasn't really pleased anyone before.
I know I've just told you, go read a book, but these two books will arm you with information that will be irrefutable and eye-opening. It's what you need. He's already just killing the messenger and invalidating your experience as woman when you try to tell him anything from your side.
The science and facts, have to do with both the structure of female erogenous zones and the conditions under which they work, ie how you can rub all the right things and do all the right moves, but if you are triggering a fight or flight response, even those won't work. It's useful for men to understand the science behind things, so they don't lay the blame for their own ineptitude, or lack of interest in trying, at their partner's feet.
I’m a former Eastern Catholic, so I can answer this from my perspective:
The Orthodox Church teaches that it is the very Church established by Jesus Christ and the Apostles, that it is the genuine living continuation of the Early Church to today. Accordingly, we’ve rejected the claims of the papacy to be infallible, that it alone can establish dogmas which must be believed in order to be saved, and so forth. When I was a college student, I read the Fathers of the Church in the library (Catholic school, Catholic editions of the Fathers), and I came to the conclusion that the Christianity described in the Apostolic Fathers and Roman Catholicism are entirely different realities. The fact that Pope Urban VIII infallibly proclaimed that all human beings must be subject to the Pope of Rome in order to be saved has not been taken off the books, and you will find no such claims in the Fathers of the Church — which Catholicism claims to follow. There’s so much more to this subject that one could easily write a thesis on it, but for me the bottom-line is that I could not find the truth claims of Roman Catholicism supported by documentary and archaeological evidence. If you are interested in knowing more about Orthodox Christianity and its history, I would recommend beginning with The Orthodox Church, by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware. It’s a very popular book in English. For free resources, I recommend The Orthodox Faith by Father Thomas Hopko (Вічная його Пам‘ять), which I feel is a decent overview that should provide information for further study.
I pray God will bless and support you during your spiritual journey.
That's 100% wrong, though. You should read <em>Sapiens</em> by Yuval Noah Hariri. The TLDR is "We came, we saw, we ate."
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Early humans were absolutely savage in terms of obliterating local wildlife populations and causing lasting environmental damage that we can detect (with some difficulty) today. Using up the food and water, and shitting up the surroundings, were the primary drivers of early migration.
The myth of the native or primitive human in balance with nature is a lie we tell ourselves. We are hungry murder monkeys.
Perhaps both of you can read this popular book: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
And maybe your wife might learn from this mobile app: https://meetrosy.com/
What are you even talking about? I'm not posting some fringe view here, this is the overwhelming consensus on the subject. Bart Ehrman has written an entire book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0053K28TS/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i11 .
Sun Tzu allegedly lived around 550 BC and yet he isn't mentioned until the Spring and Autumn Annals 150 years later, and no specific stories about him until the Shiji in 100 BC.
Jesus had Mark and Q and the Pauline letters all written about him within 40 years of his life, and Josephus and the other 3 gospels written by around 100 AD within 70 years.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IWR3JW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are by Bart Ehrman
It's not an effort problem. And your partners, sex isn't a transaction for being a good partner. She's not bad and neither are you.
In essence your current solution is for to have sex she doesn't want to have for whatever reason. That never ends well.
This is a libido, desire problem because of a mismatch.
So, the best thing I can recommend is for you (both) to read
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LD1ORBI/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_XM4NJAME30VZV1RS2H2E
We all have a gas pedal and a set of brakes where desire is concerned. Some of us are all gas and very little brake. Some of us have hair trigger brakes that keep us spinning pur wheels no matter how much gas we give. This book helps breakdown the various factors, help narrow down the factors that we can control for so the braking system gets backed up on and the gas gets going.
Start here. See if you two can figure out how to create the right circumstances for those brakes to stop getting triggered and give her desire a chance to get going again.
This video is featured in this sub's wiki along with several other excellent TED talks.
Also, Dr. Nagoski is the author of one of the most popular books in this sub: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life.
If you insist, but I really doubted you'd need a citation. I wouldn't make that outlandish of a claim with such conviction if there wasn't some basis to it.
Has Elliott Rodgers actually ever claimed to be an MRA, or pro men's equality? As far as I'm concerned, it's mostly feminists trying to make leaps and stretches to link him to the movement.
I'm not "tarring" your movement by pointing to a couple of terrorists. If I wanted to "tar" feminism, there are far more effective examples to use as ammunition. But I take issue with you declaring to be a first and second wave feminist as if they were:
1) Better than their future counterparts. To me they are not.
2) A perfect representation of what you think feminism is.
I don't care what you believe feminism to be at the moment. But I'm troubled by the constant misinformation being spread that paints the suffragettes and second-wave feminists as saints. They are far from and I argue that they and their ideologies at the time are far worse than third wave and fourth wave feminism. At least the latter, most of time, does not act on their incessant hatred of men.
<em>The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity</em> was a great primer for me. I enjoy the way Metropolitan Ware writes, and he does a good job of skimming over two thousand years of history and dogma without leaving you feel like you missed anything. It's on Kindle for $10.
Also, there's this podcast series on Ancient Faith Radio's site. I haven't listened to it myself, but it seems relevant. Apologies if it's actually not! But even if it isn't AFR has a LOT of good content, I recommend browsing their catalog!
Sure, it’s pretty simple to make your sex life better. Go study, make it sexy. Try books like these
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LD1ORBI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_ZKEWM6V58RCFEMX31GN6
101 Nights of Grrreat Romance: Secret Sealed Seductions for Fun-Loving Couples https://www.amazon.com/dp/0962962821/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_QK7QZP1NPX9AF8TYB30Z
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According to Harari, it works as some kind of glue (my words). It's in one of the first chapters of his book Sapiens.
This book, right here. Read it. Then read it again. Then again. And memorize it. Take the quizzes. Do all the things. This book is a complete game changer. https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform-ebook/dp/B00LD1ORBI/ref=sr_1_1?crid=IGMDXT4CZE8E&dchild=1&keywords=come+as+you+are+by+emily+nagoski%2C+ph.d&qid=1611848989&sprefix=come+as+you+are%2Caps%2C175&sr=8-1
Please - go buy this book (I've included the handy link) Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski. You can read it in a day or two. Or start by going on YouTube and look for one of the TedTalks she has done.
It explains responsive desire. Women can experience spontaneous desire, but as I said, physiologically, our bodies are different and require more. You're comparing your arousal time to his! Do you think you should be able to get it up as quickly as he can? Oh, no.
You say he is not selfish. I want to believe you. However, what he is telling you is, I'm not used to that, I prefer this and that oral sex or manual stimulation should be "optional". It is not. What he is willing to give does not meet your needs and he is not willing to compromise.