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- 1:19anyway, so let's talk about this topic of what men want in bed
- 1:25and let's just do higher libido partner in parentheses whenever
- 1:29I say men, because as I've said, it's more often men, but there
- 1:32are women who are the higher libido partner So what a lot of
- 1:37men want, what? Every High libido man wants is
- 1:43some sort of novelty in their sex life, why?
- 1:47Because you know what you only live once and there's two
- 1:51reasons. The first one is overuse of
- 1:53porn. So stop, you know, stop watching
- 1:56too much porn, because most women are not, you know, porn
- 2:00actresses. And therefore, they do not do
- 2:02the things in porn. Because the people who do do the
- 2:04things important, When you're being paid to do them, they
- 2:06probably don't like doing them very much.
- 2:08But anyway the second is that we're all gonna die and by about
- 2:13mid life, men realize if I don't do these things that I've always
- 2:18yearned for even before many of my clients even before
- 2:22smartphones and even the internet was a thing.
- 2:26I have wanted for example to get a blow job and if my wife of you
- 2:30know, 20 years will not ever do that and there are people in
- 2:34this Situation. Then I am going to go to my
- 2:37grave, never having had a blow job which I, you know, find to
- 2:42be horrible. You know, and pretty, pretty
- 2:45morbid and I want something that makes me feel different and new
- 2:49at this stage in my life. I mean, this is why people cheat
- 2:52honestly not to get blowjobs. Although that could be a
- 2:54secondary reason. But if you read Esther perils
- 2:57mating in captivity, which everybody should she talks about
- 3:00that. The number one reason people
- 3:01cheat is that they feel alive, you know, you get to a stage in
- 3:04life. Life is just one fucking thing
- 3:06right after another feel like you're on a hamster wheel.
- 3:09And so people want that feeling again, at least in part of being
- 3:13young having options, having potential, you get up in the
- 3:18morning, you don't exactly know every single goddamn thing
- 3:21that's going to happen that day, like you do as an adult and as a
- 3:25parent, especially, you're trying to keep your kids on some
- 3:27kind of a routine. So, I mean, what could be so
- 3:29exciting? You know, if there is an
- 3:31exciting thing, it's a vacation that you fucking plans that, you
- 3:34know, Down to the minute. Everything that's going to
- 3:36happen. Pretty much so people cheat
- 3:39because they want this sense of adventure of Youth.
- 3:43It's frequently not even because they're dissatisfied in their
- 3:45marriages so related when men want novelty in their sex lives,
- 3:51it's because there's really no novelty anywhere else.
- 3:54This is the most important thing to them.
- 3:55The most important love language and at a certain point, you
- 3:59know, you've changed your careers enough times.
- 4:01You've figured out what you want to do for your life.
- 4:03You have a house here, you may I have a beach house there and
- 4:07maybe financially your set or at least you see how you will be
- 4:11set. You are happy with your
- 4:13parenting, you've joined a softball league or whatever the
- 4:16hell you know CrossFit. I mean what other kind of aspect
- 4:19is there in the average man's identity, besides his sexual
- 4:24virility and his sex life. You know, his sex life is that
- 4:30area? Where, no matter how much he
- 4:32works on it frequently, there is no way to Get any novelty in it
- 4:36without leaving his wife, who he loves.
- 4:38So that's really a pickle when women are in a situation where
- 4:41they want more novelty and more Adventure.
- 4:44Men. Usually understand that super
- 4:46well because they themselves feel like that very frequently
- 4:49men are more often sensation Seekers as well.
- 4:52Then in fact, what's her name? The highly sensitive person
- 4:59woman Elaine. Aaron came out with another
- 5:01construct called high sensation seeking.
- 5:04So if you Google Oh hi sensation-seeking test.
- 5:07As I've told you to take the highly sensitive person test
- 5:10numerous times. You know, I write all about
- 5:12highly sensitive people, half y'all's wives are probably
- 5:15highly sensitive people, most of the women listening or probably
- 5:17highly sensitive people. It's 20% of the world would
- 5:20probably 80% of people who are interested in Psychology.
- 5:23But anyway, she has another construct, High sensitivity,
- 5:26sorry High sensation seeking. And in fact, you need to get an
- 5:3011 on this test to be a high sensation Seekers as a woman.
- 5:33But she says, you need to get a 13 to be a high sensation,
- 5:36Seekers a man because on average men are higher sensation,
- 5:39Seekers, and women like, that should be pretty obvious from
- 5:42people who've raised boys and girls who's climbing more,
- 5:44usually boys. So the point here is men really
- 5:48understand their wives need for novelty and Adventure, even
- 5:52within, you know, smaller more constraint constraint bounds
- 5:57than they have. Because this is something that
- 5:59they themselves experience on the regular.
- 6:01So it's very rare for a woman to say, oh, Oh, I want to try
- 6:06something new, whether it's a new kind of exercise.
- 6:08A new place to eat a new place to live and a man just like,
- 6:13doesn't even understand men that are super rigid about that stuff
- 6:16and don't want their wives to have anything new in their lives
- 6:20are generally very rigid, depressed, guys, and should
- 6:24refer back to my ocpd podcast and just ones about when your
- 6:28wife thinks that you're very difficult all the time.
- 6:30I have one like that and may even want to think about that.
- 6:35Above will definitely want to think about the type of home
- 6:37that they were raised in, whether they never got to do
- 6:40anything and had a very constricted - upbringing,
- 6:43because usually the default that I see in healthy relationships
- 6:47is the woman says, you know what I always wanted to go, you know,
- 6:51to play Pickleball and the guys are really Googling pickleball,
- 6:55you know, especially if he loves his wife, right?
- 6:59And because he understands, oh, a new thing.
- 7:02That's, she wants to do all, that's like me.
- 7:04I like, I like to do new things, I can understand that, and this
- 7:08is why the majority of happily married men, go along with the
- 7:11wives home renovation ideas as I discussed in another podcast.
- 7:15This is a woman's freaking frequently.
- 7:17Women use this as a creative Outlet getting something new
- 7:20Under the Sun after like 40 years of life Etc.
- 7:23So for men, the whole thing is sex, you know like all these
- 7:28guys that are like Triathlon training and everything.
- 7:31If they had a better sex life, half of them would just not even
- 7:34do that. So the point is here, that in
- 7:38reality, the reason that the man wants new things in bed is
- 7:42because he has a desire to feel alive to feel that there's
- 7:46something new in his life that it isn't just a straight shot
- 7:49from here to the Grave, Etc. But what if the woman doesn't
- 7:55want to do the things that the man brings up to do?
- 7:59Well, this is Abyss. You might think this is like an
- 8:03insurmountable issue in this. Era, where everybody's got to
- 8:06just do exactly what they want to do.
- 8:08All of the time, which is obviously, anathema for a
- 8:11healthy relationship. But it's really good for
- 8:14self-actualization if you're single and I talked about this,
- 8:18in my podcast episode, The Cult of boundaries and preferences
- 8:20and how they sabotage intimacy, or what have you, I think that's
- 8:24the title. So and by the way, this super
- 8:27hard to search for any of these things, what you got to do is
- 8:30like remember any of the words I say, for the title of the
- 8:33podcast, just type it into spot. Dr. Psych mom, show boundaries,
- 8:37and then you'll get like two of them and then you pick the right
- 8:39one. But anyway, that's just my tech
- 8:43tip in case anybody's even stupider than me about
- 8:45technology. So here's here's the thing.
- 8:49Now that I did the whole intro about how What Men really want
- 8:53us to feel alive. A different to do something new
- 8:55and tellman overuse porn. Here's the think.
- 8:58So the man feels like I want a blowjob.
- 9:00Why do I want to blow job? Well, blow job feels good but
- 9:04also So this is the thing, the man is not infinitely creative.
- 9:08So many women, put their husband on a pedestal.
- 9:10Like he's some kind of he like knows about sex.
- 9:13He knows about sex from who from like the two girlfriends he had
- 9:16before you the three one-night stand.
- 9:18He's not a sex guru. He's just wash a lot of porn.
- 9:22So he seems like he knows a lot because he's, you know, he knows
- 9:26more than you do about things that people do in the world.
- 9:30You know. He knows about different sex
- 9:32acts but he's not really, That super experienced men who are
- 9:38super experience quite honestly don't usually get into a
- 9:42situation where they're married to somebody who won't give them
- 9:43a blow job. That's just kind of how it goes.
- 9:45Because the number one variable, they were selecting on for a
- 9:49life partner is will give blowjob blowjob, equals
- 9:53Baseline. And then from there, perhaps
- 9:55we're going to, you know, invite a third into our bedroom every
- 9:58weekend. So like men were super
- 10:00experienced, the average woman listening to this is not dealing
- 10:03with such, you know, instead. It's a fairly average, man.
- 10:06He says, I want something different.
- 10:07Here's something different. A blow job.
- 10:10That seems right. You know, I'm asking a lot of
- 10:12porn with blow jobs. You know.
- 10:14The sounds good. That's this.
- 10:15Seems like it's going to make my life better.
- 10:18This seems like something ubiquitous for other men.
- 10:20Seems more like that when you watch porn.
- 10:22Of course, you could only watch blowjobs, and you seem like a
- 10:24hundred percent of men are getting them. 100 percent of men
- 10:26are not getting them by the way. But anyway, so the guy's not as
- 10:31creative as you think nor does his Preferences.
- 10:36Nor do they reflect some innate reality?
- 10:38The way that you think they do, nobody's does everybody's
- 10:42preferences are mediated by Society by what they ate that
- 10:45day for breakfast by what they saw on TV.
- 10:48You know, by a million fucking variables, a million variables.
- 10:53So the average man, his preferences are much more
- 10:56malleable than you think. The main thing that he want is a
- 11:00partner to be enthusiastic about novelty.
- 11:03So, think about it like this, so, What if your husband said to
- 11:05you, hey what I really want for my birthday, is for you to come
- 11:10fishing with me for 12 hours and it's going to be, it's going to
- 11:15be great. We're gonna be this tiny little
- 11:17boat and it's going to be, you know, just us.
- 11:19It's also could be 40 degrees. You might be like, no but you
- 11:24know what about? We do this other thing where
- 11:26it's like, I go out with you for like three hours and it's, you
- 11:30know, not it's in a different place.
- 11:32So it's gonna be like, 60 degrees.
- 11:34So unless you Husbands like a real asshole.
- 11:36He's gonna be like, oh okay, you know, like I'll try that.
- 11:38Thanks for coming. You do like and if he is a super
- 11:41big asshole, then refer back to the rigid ocpd, sort of not like
- 11:45everybody who's an asshole as ocpd but you know, a lot of
- 11:50people are rigid and difficult. But if your husband is like
- 11:53within normal limits, as long as you come up with an alternate
- 11:57idea that's kind of in the same vein, he's going to see that
- 12:01you're trying. So what most women fail to do,
- 12:04which is fairly Fairly fairly easy for you to do as a woman.
- 12:09If you listen to my instructions, they don't, they
- 12:13don't suggest that competing alternative at all.
- 12:16So it's like as, though your friend.
- 12:19So let's say you're trying to make friends with a girl, a
- 12:21woman at your kids. Preschool pick up and you say,
- 12:24hey, do you want to go get coffee?
- 12:26She says, I don't drink coffee. Well, I guess you don't want to
- 12:32be friends then, you know, because all if you did want to
- 12:35be friends, you like I don't drink coffee but I know we could
- 12:37go to get T at this place or you can say, you could drink coffee
- 12:40but I'll just, you know, bring a smoothie or something.
- 12:43Like, either way, you're gonna, you're gonna suggest an
- 12:45alternative if you give a shit about the relationship or about
- 12:48creating a relationship, but women don't do this in bed.
- 12:51The guys like I want a blow job and she's like, no, well I'm
- 12:55eating it where we you know, like what's happening like where
- 12:59is the Heard it if that suggests that you are in some way
- 13:02receptive to anything. As I said, most guys do not like
- 13:05really, they don't have their their flag planted in the ground
- 13:09about the blow job. They really don't, I talk to
- 13:11them and talk. This is my job.
- 13:12I talked to guys all the time if the woman was like, well, I
- 13:16don't know about that. You know how I am about blowjobs
- 13:19but here, check this out, check out this link of this thing that
- 13:23I want to buy. That is like a French maid
- 13:26outfit. Guess what goes the way of the
- 13:29dodo? The fucking blowjob because the
- 13:31guy is going to be so excited. He's gonna pinch himself.
- 13:35Oh my God. Will you want to do anything?
- 13:37Just like something that you want?
- 13:39There is not a blow job. All right, you know, it's this
- 13:41other thing. Oh my God.
- 13:42You want to do a thing? Wow, trust me.
- 13:46The average man wants novelty and enthusiasm.
- 13:49If you come up with any competing alternative, now, this
- 13:52does not mean that, you shouldn't try to give him a blow
- 13:54job, of course, everybody should try to be extremely flexible
- 13:57with in there. Carriage, if you have a hard
- 13:59stop on blowjobs. And why does he have a hard stop
- 14:02on? Like, you know, not being a
- 14:03sarcastic asshole, you know, like what lots of, you know,
- 14:06one-to-one correspondence, if you think your partner has too
- 14:10many hard stops about things, you're going to amass a lot of
- 14:12them yourself, and they're going to be outside the bedroom or
- 14:15inside, the bedroom doesn't really matter.
- 14:17But if you come up with anything, that indicates that
- 14:21you also value novelty and Adventure, within the sex life,
- 14:24you could run the whole show the whole entire Her the sex life
- 14:28could turn into you getting to buy cute outfits from, you know
- 14:33whatever store and showing them to your husband.
- 14:35Bam. His sex life is like ten
- 14:37thousand million times better. The other thing that you're
- 14:40doing is showing that you're willing to play ball just in
- 14:43terms of the relationship overall, not even just the sex
- 14:46life. So instead of shaming him,
- 14:49you're saying you know why you're important enough to me
- 14:51that I am going to figure out some other thing.
- 14:54You know, that is also something that you would like but Can be
- 14:58something that both of us like, you know, or something that we
- 15:01both know I'm doing for you, but it's something that's not
- 15:03abhorrent to me. Or what have you?
- 15:06So this is like the quote hack, which I say, you know, ingest
- 15:10because all this is is be doing what people in more healthy,
- 15:14close relationships do on a regular basis.
- 15:18They say, all right, you don't want to do.
- 15:19I don't want to do this or I can't do this.
- 15:22I'm a think I can't do this, or I won't do this.
- 15:25But what about this? What they don't say is, I can't
- 15:27do that. So, go.
- 15:27Go fuck yourself pretty much and if you do say, I can't do this.
- 15:32So go fuck yourself. Then don't be surprised when
- 15:34your marriage is terrible because that indicates a
- 15:37complete inability to see outside yourself, complete, lack
- 15:40of empathy, lack of perspective, taking lack of kindness, lack of
- 15:43generosity. If you suggest literally any
- 15:46other and you in, so you're like, okay, well, I'm not
- 15:48somebody who could say that, you know, I am too shy to say
- 15:51something like that. We could go.
- 15:54So low level like so low level, if you cannot Not think about
- 15:59anything that you find remotely kinky or anything outside the
- 16:04box. If you touch your husband more,
- 16:08half your problems will go away. At least, if not, all of them,
- 16:11literally you in this happens, in couples counseling.
- 16:14All the time or individual. The guy'll be like, you know
- 16:16what, I really want to do, I want to do BDSM and then like,
- 16:19almost within 10 minutes of talking, he's like, you know, if
- 16:22my wife just kissed me when I came through the door, you know,
- 16:25you that would also be good. So like we've gone from the
- 16:29dungeon to just basically like affection and this is not like
- 16:34this is not unusual. This is it because something
- 16:37about men or you know women I mean you could see this with
- 16:41anything. So if you are a woman and you
- 16:42want to renovate the whole house and your husband was like no no
- 16:46no. And then like he comes home with
- 16:49a new countertop one thing and he's like hey like you know want
- 16:54me to install this thing. You can be like yeah, wow.
- 16:58Okay. Okay, cool.
- 16:59You know, we could come up with a new fucking lighting fixture.
- 17:02You be like, wow, you know, like what I really never thought
- 17:05you'd do that. You know, you really care about
- 17:08what the lighting is in the bathroom.
- 17:09That's so cool. You know, people are just this
- 17:12way, you know, every people don't want to be difficult but
- 17:15if you and your discussions about the sex life has become
- 17:19completely polarized, which means one person is a caricature
- 17:21of the no position. One person's a caricature of the
- 17:24yes position which is what happens in arguments without
- 17:27Intervention like couples work. Then you know, this is not
- 17:32reflective in reality of which are husband may be yearning for
- 17:36he yearns for something deeper. He when he's asking for the
- 17:39novelty and the sex life. He's asking for a recognition of
- 17:43the fact that this is one of the few Arenas in which he could
- 17:46still feel some sort of anticipation potential
- 17:52excitement, novelty Etc. And number two, the fact that
- 17:56you would be willing to give him that Indicates that you care for
- 17:59him, value him as a person and love him.
- 18:01If you see it in that way, then you will realize, oh, I can't
- 18:05you say no. I mean, that's like him saying.
- 18:08Do you want to go on date night tomorrow night?
- 18:10And I just say, no. Oh, you don't just say no.
- 18:13You said, well, I can't tomorrow, like we got the kids
- 18:15doing this and this but like, maybe like next week.
- 18:19That's what you would say. You know, if you want to remain
- 18:21married, you wouldn't just be like, no.
- 18:23So you can just say that within bed either, but you have no idea
- 18:27the Level of alternative that you might have to suggest.
- 18:31And so and then this Builds on itself in a virtuous cycle,
- 18:34right? So let's say you're like, our,
- 18:37I'm going to test this out. He's asking for blow job.
- 18:39I'm going to say no. But why didn't we do this thing?
- 18:43Where I put a blindfold on you you're like literally all I have
- 18:47to do is not look at him which I said that I don't want to do
- 18:50anyway because II contact freaks me out and he's already going to
- 18:52be excited. I promise you if this is a new
- 18:55thing, he's going to be exciting.
- 18:56I swear. Well, Money back.
- 18:58This one is free though, but 99% of high libido men.
- 19:03If they're low libido, wife suggested putting a blindfold on
- 19:06them would be overjoyed over Joy.
- 19:09So the point is, you may have to do far less than you think and
- 19:12what he responds. So, well to these other things
- 19:15that you can realize he wasn't being some sort of rigid asshole
- 19:19that only wants it his way. And he only wants a porn star
- 19:22because he watches too much porn and blah blah and he doesn't
- 19:25even care what I want. And like all these like lies
- 19:27that women tell their Themselves.
- 19:29Then you will feel better about it.
- 19:31And you may even in a wonderful turn of events be like, well,
- 19:35you know, he's not a bad guy. Look how happy he is.
- 19:37About this one thing that we did together, you know, it's really
- 19:41he does just seems just want anything that is new different
- 19:45and fun, I can understand that. I like things that are new
- 19:47different and fun and the domains that I value.
- 19:50So, you know, if he was this happy about this like low-level
- 19:54alternative sexual thing. What if I actually did give him
- 19:57the damn blow Man, you know, it'd probably be over the moon,
- 20:00you know, II curious to see that would be a best case thing I am
- 20:04curious to see how happy he would be with the thing that he
- 20:06wanted all along. But honestly for the men
- 20:09listening that our luck will let some load of shit.
- 20:11Literally though, you're not picturing this accurately like
- 20:15if you think it would be a load of shit to have to do an
- 20:18alternative currently, you're not doing the alternative either
- 20:20do nothing. So trust me, when I tell you
- 20:23that doing some fun, alternative would be far better.
- 20:27Better than you think then doing nothing and bitching about it.
- 20:33So so a compromise his always better than nothing.
- 20:38Right and so what I encourage anybody listening to do if
- 20:42you're the woman tried to do what I say try to literally.
- 20:45We're talking about French kissing.
- 20:47I mean like there's there's this is like a low bar for like a
- 20:50couple that struggling with their sex life but what you
- 20:53can't do now I'm just giving you a caveat which you Do is say
- 20:58fine we'll just do it. More will do it once a week.
- 21:00Okay. And during it I'm going to act
- 21:02like I'm having my pancreas removed without anesthesia or
- 21:06and I'm trying to get myself into a Zen state so that I don't
- 21:09you know, flip out from the pain like some women are in a
- 21:13dissociative trans during sex. You cannot just offer more
- 21:18frequent coma sex like that, you can't do that.
- 21:22That's not like a thing. The that category that we're in
- 21:26for offering an alternative from It is new fun things.
- 21:30I don't care. If the new fun thing is like,
- 21:33you look at him. I don't care.
- 21:34If the new fun thing. Is, you touch him?
- 21:37You know how many men are like, she doesn't touch me.
- 21:39She doesn't touch my body and they'll like, make sure I
- 21:42understand what they mean. They're like, no, you don't
- 21:44understand. She doesn't ever touch it.
- 21:47I'm like, yeah, I know what you're saying.
- 21:49Because so many of your cohorts say, the same thing.
- 21:52She doesn't touch me with her hands ever, you know?
- 21:55So if you're in that bucket and that Category.
- 21:58If you touch him with your hands then you know, I'm not even
- 22:03talking about his penis, that's best case scenario like anywhere
- 22:06like on his body, then already the sex life is improved by like
- 22:09you know like 75% and he may stop perseverating on other
- 22:15things because you seem to be an active and engaged participants
- 22:19as well as somebody who understands his need for, you
- 22:23know, adventure and lifelike. The bedroom doesn't To seem like
- 22:28a mortuary, you know, we're like a relationship comes to die in
- 22:32midlife like, that's not sexy. So anyway, I try to take my
- 22:35advice and it doesn't work. Remember what I always tell you.
- 22:39What do you do? If all the stuff I'm telling
- 22:41you, 200 owned by now, 400? No, not 400 episodes it about
- 22:47close to 300 episodes. If all this stuff doesn't work,
- 22:50what do you do? You go to couples counseling, go
- 22:53to couples counseling, that's what you do.
- 22:55So try it, try a couple. Those counseling try anything.
- 22:59Don't just give up on the relationship.
- 23:01Don't just give up on sex life and I will talk to you all soon.
- 23:04Bye bye.