A BBC documentary ‘The Human Body’ presented by Dr Robert Winston films a sex education class. First the teacher writes the word ‘SEX’ in large letters on the blackboard and then asks the teenagers to suggest other words associated with sex.
After the standard contributions the teacher adds the word missing from the list: ‘LOVE’.
Despite contraception, sex still involves a risk of pregnancy, sexual disease and much emotional turmoil(!). So we promote the link between sex and love to ensure that young people understand the responsibilities associated with a sexual relationship.
An English girl of sixteen came out to the South of France one summer. On her first night she met an Australian whose self-confessed ambition was to lay every woman in the resort. She fell for his chat and his blond good looks and lost her virginity. The next day he moved on (mission accomplished so to speak) and naturally she was devastated.
“Male promiscuity often depends upon the satisfactions that may be secured from the pursuit and successful attainment of a new partner. … Once having demonstrated their capacities to effect sexual relations with the particular individual, they prefer to turn to the pursuit of the next partner.” (p683 Sexual behavior in the human female 1953)
Courtship involves a man showing his willingness to engage on the loving aspects of relationships in return for sex. So any woman hoping for more than a ‘one night stand’ should make a man wait (at least a date or two) for sex. It won’t do him any lasting harm.
Since a woman does not get the same easy pleasure from sex, she offers a man short-term pleasure in the hope of longer-term companionship and support (including family).
This highlights another difficulty in assessing women’s sexual desire (and their ability to enjoy sexual arousal). Young women often make the mistake of assuming that a man will love them if they offer him sex. You can follow their logic but it doesn’t work like that.
A man is more likely to marry a woman who is sexually choosy than one who is sexually easy. Not only can he be more certain that a child is his but also her willingness to have sex only with him is a compliment because it singles him out as a mate.
Sex and love are different
In the long run, most of us find that having sex with someone we know and love adds something special to the experience. But that does not mean that sex and love are the same thing. SEX is raunchy, exhilarating, orgasmic and fun. LOVE is caring and nurturing. The two can go together or side-by-side but they are different.
Sex education for teenagers (especially girls) should cover not only the reproductive facts but also how they can enjoy a sexual relationship. Most women who experience orgasm do so through masturbation or oral sex. Telling teenagers to limit their sexual experiences to intercourse makes it less likely that a woman might learn how to enjoy her own orgasm. Vaginal intercourse may lead to family but it was never intended to facilitate female orgasm, either physically or psychologically.
Not every woman is attracted to eroticism and so many women miss out on the sexual fantasies that lead to female sexual arousal and orgasm. Many women never learn to explore their sexuality, either through masturbation or through activities other than vaginal intercourse, and so they miss out on enjoying sexual pleasure and their own sexual arousal and orgasm.
It’s not just women who are unwilling to acknowledge difficulties with female orgasm during sex. It’s much easier to assume female sexual arousal or overlook it than to face it because there are no easy solutions. Why admit a problem you can’t solve?
Very few couples are truly honest with each other. Most men never admit to their partners that they masturbate. Some men also prefer to pay a stranger for sex than to have to face asking their wives or girlfriends to participate in an explicitly sexual act.
Excerpt from Ways Women Orgasm (ISBN 978-0956-894700)
I would like to ask CONCEPT OF SEXUAL LIFE IN ISLAM What is allowed and prohibits in Islam for wife and husband relationship ( sex life ) Can they both have bath shower together ? Can they both Sleep naked together ? Can they Touch private parts and play ( kiss) on it ( upper and lower parts) ? is man allowed to remove his hairs from chest and rest of body? during Ramadan is allowed while you have Roza to kiss( lip kiss) or hug to wife ? if both see each other naked does roza break ? can he or she give body massage or kiss on private parts? I am confused about these kind of issues please guide me what is the best ways of filling each other needs in circle of Islam.
Qarijaan, I am not familiar with the Muslim beliefs about marriage.
On the whole all religions focus on the reproductive and social aspects of relationships between husband and wife. So, for example, generally vaginal intercourse is approved of because it leads to conception and hence family.
Enjoyment of sexual pleasure is a much wider concept than simply the reproductive biology of the sexes. So different people find a variety of genital and non-genital touching either pleasurable or sensual or emotionally comforting.
My personal belief is that what happens between two consenting adults with pleasure or contentment on both sides should be perfectly acceptable in a modern world regardless of religion.
But this is a highly personal matter and many people restrict their enjoyment of sexual pleasure because of their personal fears or beliefs about what is ‘moral’ or ‘proper’.
I suggest that you find a religious expert to advise you about the Muslim religion and about what is considered acceptable sexual activity between husband and wife if that is your concern.
thanks to give me complete ans