What possessed me to read a syndicated advice column I’ll never know, but I did and I’m bewildered by what passes for helpful advice.
A woman writes in that she’s been happily married for 37 years but has never enjoyed sex and no longer wishes to "submit" (her word) to her husband once a week.
The advice was to go ahead and take one for the team and get her hormone levels checked along with therapy to help her enjoy sex.
It is bad enough when men say crap like this, but coming from two women that pen this rubbish it is mind blowing. Their advice is "It’s your problem, don’t do this to your husband."
What sort of man would want to continue weekly sex with someone he presumably loves after she’s stated she doesn’t enjoy it and views it as a chore? Well, that’s OK because the advice mavens have given him the go ahead to drag the wife off for therapy to make her "normal." Maybe he can get her lobotomised at the same time for a single co-pay. A few hormone shots, an ice-pick under the eyelids and presto-chango, you’ve got yourself a little woman willing to "submit" for the next 37 years.
This is what the therapy model gets you, and it will keep getting worse unless people start rejecting it soon.