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Sex researcher Mary Roach published the findings of her own study on sex researchers this week and revealed that the most unusual study she encountered was by US addiction expert Meredith Chivers of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health. “She found that women are aroused by any sexual activity, even if the film showed gay men or bonobo apes having sex,” Ms Roach told the Metro newspaper. “(Heterosexual) Men only responded to straight sex or naked women. It’s fascinating – the common perception is the other way around,” she added.
The article appeared as the Daily Telegraph reported in a massive increase of middle aged men going off sex altogether, according to counselling organisation Relate. “What we have is a lot of men who say, as women did in the 1950s: ‘I can have sex but I do not want to. It’s not rewarding’,” Relate publicist Peter Bell told the Telegraph, “It is a serious issue. It counts as a pychosexual dysfunction rather than just a relationship problem, because these men haven’t simply gone off their partner but off sex altogether.”
Daily Mail columnist Carol Sandler was unsympathetic, however, ridiculing sex avoiding metrosexual ‘new man’ types as ‘a bunch of sissies’. “As long as there are dragons – and God knows, there still are – we don’t need some sensitive poet cowering in the corner. We need grown men slaying them,” she roared, “And with a warm-up like that, the libido, I suspect, will take care of itself.”
