Desrtopa comments on The more privileged lover - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 06 March 2013 07:51:59PM 1 point [-]

As one rather popular post (which I'd take the time to dig up, but my computer is suffering some pretty serious lag at the moment) suggests, it's often worthwhile to make things explicit even if they may appear obvious. The part of my comment which is addressing your comment is the part where I state that, contrary to your implication, compromising on frequency of sex is a standard and widely tolerated component of relationships. That this does not entail that compromising on the necessity of consent is acceptable is probably an obvious corollary, but I thought it better to disclaim it than not.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 March 2013 10:45:53PM 1 point [-]

compromising on frequency of sex is a standard and widely tolerated component of relationships.

Yes, I believe that's true as well. Yet a suggestion that a woman might do that in a case where her male partner wants more sex than she does meets with hostility and insinuations of rape.