• tacosanonymous
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    8 months ago

    There are certainly some nuggets of truth in there but man is Psych Today just a terrible org.

  • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    As someone who used to think they were a man, and who felt that as a supposed man they had a “role” to fulfil in wanting sex whenever it was an option, I can absolutely back this up. I have caused myself no end of damage because I thought that wanting sex was the default state and I should jump on the opportunity whenever I could.

    Sex is great. Lots of sex is great. But it’s okay to not want to have sex, and it’s not worth the psychological damage to have sex when you don’t want to have sex. It can be like sexually assaulting yourself.

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    I had to read the community ‘about’ section because at a glance of the headline I thought this was an onion network or similar article and didn’t know what men’s liberation was.

  • krnl386@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    TL;DR: the reason is that men are horndogs, and those that for some weird reason want to say “no” are pressured by the Patriarchy and/or Toxic Masculinity to say “yes.”

    Did I get the gist of the article right? 🤔