The quest for sexual fulfillment in a relationship begins by learning to communicate sexual desire. Pleasure Mechanics breaks down the process
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In order to have a fulfilling sex life, it’s essential to be honest about your most authentic desires. Once you know what you want out of your sex life, you are much more likely to get it! Just as important, exploring your sexual fantasies can give you valuable insight into your own true desires.
Of course, once you know what you want, you need to share your desires with your partner. This can be a scary step for a lot of people. Most couples rarely talk about sex, let alone share openly about their sexual desires, but with open communication, the possibilities of your sex life only multiply.
Think about planning a trip to a new city. If you had two days to explore the city, would you just show up and wander around? Or would you spend some time reading about the city, researching great restaurants, looking at photos, and coming up with a list of things to do and places to see?
Planning doesn’t eliminate spontaneity, it just increases the possibility of having meaningful encounters. If you are a food lover, you might identify great outdoor markets and take notes about when they open. If you love art, you’d know where the museums are, which exhibits are still open, which museums specialize in which periods and styles.
Planning your erotic life is no different. You can spend your life having sex without any plan, and hope that you find fulfillment. Or you can get specific about what you want to experience and actually have a wildly satisfying sex life.
When you are in a relationship, you must talk about your sexual desires if you want a fulfilling sex life. Does your partner get defensive when you try to talk about sex? Learn how to share and communicate your sexual desires in an effective way.
Communicating about your desires can be an incredibly intimate and romantic process, or it can set off major conflict. A lot of it depends how you approach one another’s vulnerability and disclosures. With successful communication, you will discover parts of your lover you never knew were there. You will clear up assumptions and misconceptions. You’ll shatter patterns that don’t serve you any longer. Make no mistake, discussing and negotiating your desires together can change your relationship. In our experience, it’s almost always for the better.
Before you start talking about sex, agree to be as open-minded and nonjudgmental as possible. Approach with a spirit of curiosity. Getting to know what your partner wants is not a critique of your sex life, but rather a map leading to new and even more pleasure and intimacy. These conversations are great while going on a walk, on a dinner date, or to pass the miles on a long road trip. Dare to talk about sex whenever you have a private moment together.
If you are new to sharing your desires, start with simple questions:
-What are your favorite kinds of full body touch? Do you like featherlight touch? Do you prefer deep massage?
-Are there any parts of your body that you want touched more often?
-What kinds of daily affection make you feel most loved?
Once you have successfully begun communicating about sexual needs and desires, you can start deepening your conversation into more intimate topics:
-What is something you’ve always wanted to try and never done before?
-Would you ever want to be blindfolded or tied up? Or do the tying?
-What is something you did when you were younger but haven’t tried in a long time?
-Is there a scene from a movie that really turns you on?
The most important thing is to establish an open, friendly and relaxed conversation about sex. The more you talk about sex as a couple, the more freedom and honesty you’ll find when it comes to asking (and some cases, advocating) for what you want.
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Originally appeared in YourTango
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I’ve been amazingly curious to see all the articles from goodmenproject on woman and desire… I was at first surprised and relieved as my biggest hang up is that desiring a man massively and showing it would turn him off (read men like to chase, playing it cool, being ladylike but most of all just how amazingly vulnerable it feels to need someone that that much) so I feel a little more comfortable now. However I wonder for how many women showing desire is intimate (and I don’t mean interest or pleasure I mean hungry hungry desire, feeling like you… Read more »
Maybe these are questions that you should just come right out and ask BEFORE getting into a relationship with someone? Otherwise you face a greater possibility of spending time in an unfulfilling relationship.
@Prime,
Yes, I agree. However, many of us simply are unaware of these things before we get married or enter into a relationship. At least I will speak for myself on this accord.
Now that I am divorced (after being married for over 15 years), I now have the wisdom and knowledge to screen out the women I do not wish to be bothered with. I can do it very very quickly.
I think we are so stuck on what we desire in a partner until it clouds what we do NOT desire.
Your partner must be equipped to fulfill your fantasies as well. Just speaking it will not make it so if the other person has hang ups, limitations or fears.
I suggest finding the right person with whom you can merge with