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Nagoski: True consent requires freedom from the obligation to satisfy others
“Only if this person, if this human giver is freed up from their role as a giver of satisfying needs and not being afraid of disappointing the other person and hurting their feelings and not giving them what they want. Only when they're free of that role are th…”
Nagoski: Affairs stem from unmet relationship needs rather than sexual desire
“The main reason they happen is not anything to do with sexuality. It's because people are getting needs met in that relationship that they are no longer getting met in this other relationship.”
Nagoski: Most heterosexual men carry hidden emotional wounds from sexual rejection
“There is a wound that I think most
Cis het men are carrying around related to sexual rejection that they will almost never tell anyone about.”
Nagoski: Sexual well-being is measured by pleasure, not performance metrics
“Pleasure is the measure of sexual well-being. It's not about how often you do it, who you do it with, what room you do it in, what positions, how many orgasms you have. It's whether or not you like it.”
Nagoski: Couples sustaining long-term sexual connection share friendship and prioritization
“The couples who sustain a strong sexual connection, the two things they do have in common, one, they are friends. They have a strong friendship with trust at the foundation of their relationship. There it is again, trust. And two, they prioritize sex.”
Nagoski: Society teaches men that turning down sex is a masculine failure
“They're taught that
If there's any time that they don't want the sex
or they don't like the sex, that they're actually a failure.
They're supposed to be, like, ready to go all the time.
They're supposed to want sex all the time.
They're supposed to like all th…”
Nagoski: Learning sex from pornography is like learning driving from NASCAR
“I do know that porn is really bad sex education. It's like, this is my standard analogy, learning about sex from porn is like learning how to drive watching NASCAR. Those are professionals on a closed course with a pit crew. Do not attempt. Like, it doesn't sh…”
Nagoski: Sexual well-being is measured purely by pleasure, not frequency or orgasms
“Pleasure is the measure of sexual well-being. It's not about how often you do it, who you do it with, what room you do it in, what positions, how many orgasms you have. It's whether or not you like the sex you are having.”
Nagoski: Long-term sexual connection requires a foundation of trust and prioritizing sex
“The couples who sustain a strong sexual connection, the two things they do have in common, one, they are friends. They have a strong friendship with trust at the foundation of their relationship. There it is again, trust. And two, they prioritize sex.”
Nagoski: Revenge functions purely as a social deterrence signal, not emotional resolution
“So what revenge does, it's not so much about what you do to the person you get revenge against, it's that it communicates to other people, don't fuck with me. So it's power play that's useful if you want to be in a dominant, controlling, pretty vicious positio…”