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10.23.12Don’t Have Sex Ladies!It sometimes seems that no-one wants women to be having sex. From Christian demagogues to dating experts, women who have sex before marriage or ‘too soon’ are told that they are sinners or sluts. Now an article in the August issue of the Journal Of Marriage & Family found that women who wait at least six months before having sex with a partner have higher levels of relationship satisfaction. Six months! Of course if you put yourself through six months of self-imposed celibacy, especially if you had a lovely potential partner all lined up, you are more likely to be ...
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12.10.08The Celibate QuestionAnyone here ever gone without sex for an extended period of time? A post under my last entry complaining about doing sex without for two months got me thinking about celibacy. Many years ago I was celibate for almost a year, and not through choice really. It was a combination of various unfortunate circumstances, including a major illness in the family, that caused it. I guess I had other things on my mind... A few months later when I tried to rectify the problem I seemed to be jinxed. Everyone I went out with revealed their freakish side to me before we'd ...