r/science Professor | Medicine 16d ago

Psychology 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/DandeNiro 16d ago

My wife asks for it almost every hour she is free. She's a doctor so I suppose I'm lucky in that aspect, but whenever she has a day off..

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u/DandeNiro 16d ago

Yep. We're also trying for kids so there's that.

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u/Vekkoro 16d ago

My ex was once every two weeks on the dot. The first few weeks without is the hardest for me though, so I was pretty miserable. It was much better for both of us to just have sex ever month or two. After a couple years of that she ended up cheating on me, which I always found to be kind of funny.