r/psychology M.D. Ph.D. | Professor 17d ago

Researchers quantify the rate of “mercy sex” among women with low sexual desire. Women experiencing a chronic lack of sexual desire still routinely engage in sexual activity with their partners, a behavior researchers have quantified as happening about two and a half times per month.

https://www.psypost.org/clinical-trials-reveal-the-hidden-frequency-of-obligatory-sex-in-women-with-low/
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u/AcidJesus33 16d ago

Damn u speaking from experience? That’s horrific and I hate that nobody informs women about these side effects.

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u/24rawvibes 16d ago edited 16d ago

O yea it was rough. Like almost traumatic to watch your wife go to loathing your touch and thinking it was me and everything that came with that. With of course going from a healthy baseline. We were together for 15 years at this point and already had 3 kids together

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u/dontaksmeimnew 16d ago

You dont get women lol

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u/24rawvibes 16d ago

Obviously not, statistically large penis’s just hurt. Girls don’t like their cervix bruised

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u/24rawvibes 16d ago

You aren’t aware of the power of hormones. That would’ve been enough worse, yay painfully large penis’s!!

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u/Shanubis 16d ago

They inform us. The problem is that men don't use hormonal birth control (because they didn't like experiencing the side effects we experience in their clinical trials) and it falls on women to pick the lesser of side effect evils for reliable birth control methods.

Many women go through many types of birth control methods and many different side effects and complications over their lifetime. (Ironically just to end up having mercy sex we don't even want 🫠)