I have legitimately had like 3 older relatives share this picture on Facebook with Bible verse captions and whatnot. I feel too bad to tell them it’s not Jesus.

I just found mine in the garage. Just like I left it: Detroit Rock City and Dazed and Confused soundtracks in the front, Britney Spears in the back. Because I was a cheerleader, but a complicated 70's rock cheerleader who was like deep and shit (when everyone was looking). When no one was looking, I was a Slave 4 U.

I will comment on your username only to suggest you use the present tense.

judging from the majority of your comments on this article, you seem to think and believe a lot of things that aren’t supported by evidence.

Like...why would I want to risk pregnancy twice a day simply to get you off?

The idea that it is riskier for men to ask for an open relationship flies in the face of the whole “Man murders wife in jealous rage” thing that has happened.............................throughout history.

And 18 years old. At 34 years old, I could have sex 8 times a day easy, schedule permitting. I don’t know many men over the age of...24 who could do that.

1. I think that it is riskier for a man to request to “open” a marriage since there is a high chance the wife will flip out.

I don’t believe that married men live longer than unmarried ones, it just feels longer.

B-I-N-G-O. I scrolled all the way through the comments to see if someone else said it before posting this myself. Women seek open relationships; men just cheat. An oversimplification sure, but I’d wager large sums that this is how it breaks out statistically.

LOL, and who is going to take care of that shit? Some of us don’t have mothers or wives taking care of our adult responsibilities. Get the fuck out of here, lazy slob. The whole fucking point is that women do not get to be lazy shitheads because you fucking slackers dump that on us while you are toking it and…

Yipes! It does seem especially cruel that birth control would make it more difficult for a woman to enjoy her sex life.

I do think that because the average man has a better guarantee of orgasm in an average encounter than an average woman (note the #notallmen is built right in!!), keeping desire alive without novelty is perhaps easier for men. If you’re a woman who needs 45 minutes to get there and it’s 11:30 on a Tuesday night, maybe…

Depo Provera is EVIL. The secret to that libido destroyer is this: you don’t get pregnant because you aren’t getting any.

I actively hate that I find myself conforming to the put-upon woman stereotype, but oh my god, if a dude is lounging on the couch while I’m making dinner, cleaning up the dishes from breakfast, and tidying up the litter box in between, sleeping with him is the absolute last thing on my mind later that evening. And,…

I wonder if it’s that men tend to get the better deal out of relationships (http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/marriage-and-mens-health) and so would have fewer incentives to open up the arrangement.

Possible, but this article seems to miss one of the strongest subtexts made in the NYT article (on the cishet side of things, at least.)

The drop in interest, to me, has more to do with finding out that your male partner is also a child you have to take care of. Women do more “work” in relationships than some (not all!) men and that leads to strain. By work, I mean social relationships with other couples, house cleaning, child rearing, and so on.

Women are more likely to know the definition of polyamory.

I’m thinking that the precipitous drop in desire for women has to be due in part to hormonal birth control. That stuff can be like chemical castration for me.