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Re: High Sex Drive
From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 12:14:39 -0500 (CDT)
I'm not so sure that sex for these reasons is the same as "sex drive..."
I have also had my share of for the hell of it sex... wanting to be
liked... popular... whatever... but it was more a self-destructive,
screw it all kinda thing than what I would call a sex drive... but
perhaps we all have our definitions... :-)
- jodi
At Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Jen wrote:
>
>At Fri, 29 Jun 2001, jodi wrote:
>>
>>I'm curious... how many of you claiming to have high sex drives also
>>feel that
>>you have high or reasonably normal self esteem?
>>
>>PCOS has NOT given me a sex drive. If anything, it has killed my sex
>>drive. I had much more interest in sex when my symptoms were milder.
>
>I definitely didn't have a very high level of self-esteem in my teens
>and twenties (At least partically because of being fat and hairy), but I
>still had an incredible sex drive, so I don't think, at least for me,
>the two were related. In fact, the more I had sex, the worse I felt,
>but the worse I felt, the more I needed sex to feel better. It was
>almost like an addiction.
>
>I had sex with people I didn't know very well, just because I wanted
>them to like me. I would "put out" for my boyfriend, his friends, and
>anyone else who came along. It was never really all that satisfying, or
>at least the satisfaction would only last as long as the sex.
>
>Maybe your sexuality is more tied to your feeling attractive, while mine
>is more tied to wanting to be liked.
>
>--
>jen
>
>email welcome at: jennyred.nospam@ivillage.com
>(note: to send me an email, take out the ".nospam" I put in
> my email address. That's in there for the spam-bots.)
>
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