Sex as a weapon

SamSpade

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I didn't see the Dr L segment, but I completely understand not wanting to have sex with someone if you're upset with them, not feeling much in the mood at the time (such as tension over something ELSE in your life) or having some kind of emotional tension between you and your partner. In those cases, sex isn't being 'used as a weapon' or 'punishment' although it might look that way.

But it is completely possible - and I've had it happen, in the distant past - that a significant other uses sex as a means of manipulating my behavior, to gain the control of the relationship, to force an issue or compliance, to get something. Once it's clear to me that that is what is happening, I'm gone. It's not because I want it all the time but mainly because I consider it the most precious intimate thing I can share with someone. It would be like a man threatening to reveal to the world every precious secret, every private detail buried deep in a woman's heart - to *every* Tom, Dick and Harry, to her co-workers, her friends, her family - every embarassing thought and feeling - as a weapon to force compliance. You might just as well say "I withhold 'love' in this relationship until you cooperate". It's not a commodity.

Using sex as a weapon in *that* case, to me, is betrayal. To me, betrayal is the worst thing a partner can do because it is deliberate.
 

vraiblonde

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Sam brings up and interesting point. I had a friend that used to say, "Women give sex to get love. Men give love to get sex." And "Women control sex in a relationship, because that's what men want most. Men control emotion in a relationship, because that's what women want most."

And there's some validity to that, in general.

Men "withhold" emotion all the time. How many of you ladies have had a problem with your guy, only to have him sit there and try to ignore you when you want to discuss it?

So why is it wrong for women to "withhold" sex?
 

crabcake

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Originally posted by vraiblonde
Sam brings up and interesting point. I had a friend that used to say, "Women give sex to get love. Men give love to get sex." And "Women control sex in a relationship, because that's what men want most. Men control emotion in a relationship, because that's what women want most."

And there's some validity to that, in general.

Men "withhold" emotion all the time. How many of you ladies have had a problem with your guy, only to have him sit there and try to ignore you when you want to discuss it?

So why is it wrong for women to "withhold" sex?

I'd agree that that's what men and women are preconditioned to doing in a lot of cases ... but why does it have to be like that :shrug: Can't we, as a collective whole, just agree that the women will give up the nook freely and the men do the same with emotion so that we can skip the games and be happy :biggrin:

relationship games suck! :ohwell:
 

Dymphna

Loyalty, Friendship, Love
Originally posted by crabcake
See, that's what I was talking about ... :huggy: very good huntr ... give it up freely to the woman! :lol:

Don't worry, I make him pay. He never holds out on me.:biggrin:
 
Originally posted by cmcdanal
Don't worry, I make him pay. He never holds out on me.:biggrin:
I'm a guy. We NEVER withhold. We ALWAYS want it. No matter the "emotional content" of the situation.
 

mainman

Set Trippin
Originally posted by huntr1
I'm a guy. We NEVER withhold. We ALWAYS want it. No matter the "emotional content" of the situation.
what are these emotion things they keep talking about anyways? :shrug:
 
Originally posted by mainman
what are these emotion things they keep talking about anyways? :shrug:
Hell if I know.

Originally posted by Crabcake
the key to doors number 1, 2 & 3, my friend
That's why we have built in battering rams. Bust them doors open!
 
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