How Respecting A No Could Lead To A More Sexually Satisfying Relationship

Name: How Respecting A No Could Lead To A More Sexually Satisfying Relationship
Uploaded: 2023-04-07T10:30:08+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Vanessa Marin
Description: Vanessa Marin explains why respecting your partner's no to sex actually leads to more sex and greater satisfaction. Research shows couples where refusals…

7 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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Vanessa Marin explains why respecting your partner's no to sex actually leads to more sex and greater satisfaction. Research shows couples where refusals are respected report higher sexual frequency than couples where refusals are punished. Consent and boundaries create the conditions for desire.

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Foreign. Here's the thing. Your partner is allowed to get turned on whenever they get turned on. And you are allowed to say yes or no to sex whenever you want to say yes or no. Just because your partner is turned on does not mean that you are obligated to be intimate with them. And research has actually shown that this is very important. So researchers took a look at two different groups of couples. They looked at couples where when one partner said no, no, the other partner respected it. It wasn't a big deal. And they looked at couples where when one partner said no, the other partner punished them, whether it was the silent treatment, outright anger, a guilt trip. So of those two groups, which group do you think had a whole lot more sex? The group where the no was respected.