What causes sexual frustration?
You’re always eager to get it on, and time between sexual encounters seems like an endless stretch of desert between one oasis and the next. Or maybe you think you’re having plenty of sex, and you can’t fathom why she broods over not having enough. “It’s normal to have one partner want sex more than the other,” Patricia Love, a marriage and family therapist and author of Hot Monogamy, tells WebMD. “I think this is the most common frustration that men and women have.” And it isn’t only an issue between men and women. “These kinds of things show up in same-sex relationships just as much,” says sex therapist Louanne Cole Weston, PhD. We usually assume men have bigger sexual appetites than women, a stereotype that holds true in many cases, but by no means all. Weston says a considerable number of women want sex more often than their male partners do. “It’s more of a closeted problem,” she tells WebMD, because of embarrassment on both sides. Not only do these women get frustrated because th
