2023-07-17 14:52:40
You have to learn to keep your desire alive, and to understand when that of the other is blunted. Nomad_Soul – stock.adobe.com
PSYCHOLOGY – Desire is moving. It shows up one day, goes away another. But he can be reborn after a long sleep, regardless of age.
This is a reality evoked more openly today than yesterday. Whether we are heterosexual or not, in a couple or single, our life includes periods without sexuality. It can feel like a personal necessity, as author Ovidie explains in The flesh is sad alas (Julliard) why she has “stopped sex with men” for four years. And then there are those whose sexuality gradually falls asleep… How to reconnect with desire after a period of abstinence?
“In the imagination of the conjugal couple hovers the obligation to’having sex, notes Joëlle Mignot, clinical psychologist specializing in clinical sexology. This underlying pressure sometimes sets in insidiously and can wear down the desire for one or the other. There is also societal pressure to make love. But when you don’t do it for yourself, sexuality risks becoming uninteresting, even being rejected. This is why the issue of consent…
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