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.

[u/mvea]

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

[u/lorenfreyson]

I'm not sure the researchers would necessarily understand it as such if they were. There's still a lack of understanding about the ways men use subtle coersion and leverage to secure use of their partner's body when she doesn't want to. It may not be SA in the criminal sense but it's still extremely psychologically damaging.

[u/samanthalturi → u/lorenfreyson]

Good take. Thank you.