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I really hate how media paint women as frigid and assume men are libidinous. An article on CNN Health (currently, the most viewed on CNN) notes that 40 million people in the US have a sexless marriage, meaning they have sex fewer than 10 times a year. And yep, it’s women’s faults. Women feel so entitled to work that they think they no longer need to sexually please their husbands for some measure of financial stability.

The article takes its cue from Anita H. Clayton, M.D., who must really hate herself (though not as much as Coulter), and her article “Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy.”She assumes that women are the ones who don’t want to have sex and that they are the ones that need to change. This is misogynist bullshit.
According to Louanne Cole Weston, M.D. of WebMD, “When people wrote in about the discrepancy of frequency and desire, about 40 percent of the time it was men wanting less.”

This is what her article says causes sexless marriages: (more…)

Today is the 29th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. On this day in 1979, the military of the US-back Shah stopped fighting.

NYT

While the US and Israel burn as effigies, CS Monitor interviews Iranians attending the anniversary rally and notes the strong sentiment of unfulfilled purpose, despite the crowd’s ardor. Some Iranians are feeling disappointed; the change that they had hope for has not been fully realized.

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