Why Women May Actually Be More Sexually Satisfied Than Men in Long-Term Relationships (opens in new tab)

Somewhere in America tonight, a man is sitting very quietly after sex because his wife casually said: “Honestly? I’m pretty happy with our sex life.” This has unsettled him profoundly. Not because she is unhappy. Because he assumed she was supposed to be. He has spent the better part of adulthood absorbing a cultural narrative in which men are allegedly wandering the earth in a permanent state of erotic disappointment while women are either: * tolerating sex. * negotiating sex. * recovering f...