The Right to Want: What a New Study Reveals About Desire, Power, and Intimacy (opens in new tab)

A new study published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships began with a familiar question: Who is more sexually assertive? For generations, the answer seemed obvious. Men initiate. Men pursue. Men ask. Women respond. The researchers found something far more interesting. Not gender. Not sexual orientation. Not traditional sexual scripts. Power. More specifically, the perception that one's voice carries influence within a relationship. Life partners who felt they had greater infl...