Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readNov 29, 2023

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Women absolutely get fed up with that stuff, but they also get bored if the sex is rote, uninspiring, and the same old thing - even if they are routinely having orgasms. This is an extremely well documented phenomenon that takes place not just with people who have been married for years, but with boyfriends and girlfriends who move in together and still split a lot of the housework.

"Meana discovered that “institutionalization of the relationship, overfamiliarity, and desexualization of roles” in a long-term heterosexual partnership mess with female passion especially—a conclusion that’s consistent with other recent studies.

Two oft-cited German longitudinal studies, published in 2002 and 2006, show female desire dropping dramatically over 90 months, while men’s holds relatively steady. (Tellingly, women who didn’t live with their partners were spared this amusement-park-ride-like drop—perhaps because they were making an end run around overfamiliarity.)

And a Finnish seven-year study of more than 2,100 women, published in 2016, revealed that women’s sexual desire varied depending on relationship status: Those in the same relationship over the study period reported less desire, arousal, and satisfaction. Annika Gunst, one of the study’s co-authors, told me that she and her colleagues initially suspected this might be related to having kids. But when the researchers controlled for that variable, it turned out to have no impact."

I've been with my man for 35 years but because we intentionally work on both the sexual and non sexual parts of our relationship, I'm neither bored, nor annoyed that he's taking me for granted. Don't get me wrong, that absolutely is a huge factor for many women, but boredom can set for women even in when couples are happy together and she is routinely having orgasms.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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