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“Always Believe The Woman”? No.

by Dr. Marty Klein on March 20, 2023·Sex & Culture, Sexual Intelligence Blog

Rape is a horrible crime, whose perpetrators should be severely punished.

When someone is caught filing a false rape report, it shows a justice system that’s working–not an epidemic of rape. Why do anti-rape activists inflate the incidence of rape in America?

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Myths About Infidelity

by Dr. Marty Klein on March 1, 2023·Sex Therapist's Couch, Sexual Intelligence Blog

Every single week for the last 42 years I have spoken with one or more clients who have cheated or been cheated on.

Survey data regarding cheating keeps changing as social definitions of cheating evolve. And the invention of cars, telephones, and the internet—not to mention mixed-gender schools and workplaces—have multiplied people’s opportunities for a broader range of physical and emotional relationships.

I do believe I’ve heard every possible reason for infidelity, and…

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The Primary Sexual Concerns of Most People

by Dr. Marty Klein on February 20, 2023·Sex Therapist's Couch, Sexual Intelligence Blog

With all the current media attention to drag queens, pronouns, polyamory, and a few felons with penises demanding to be jailed in women’s cellblocks, it’s easy to forget that these aren’t the central concerns of most people.

While issues like these can be fascinating (and legitimately important to a very small number of people), most people’s sexual concerns are far more pedestrian.
It’s easy to forget that the central sexual concerns of most people do NOT involve orientation or identity.

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How to Keep Losing the Abortion Rights Battle

by Dr. Marty Klein on February 1, 2023·Sex & Politics, Sex & Religion, Sexual Intelligence Blog

The reason that abortion rights are disappearing is NOT that judges are primarily male. Blaming The Patriarchy or misogyny is a losing political position.

So are extreme Progressive positions about gender and identity, which most people care far less about than mainstream issues like abortion.

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Two Kinds of Sex—Enjoyment and Identity

by Dr. Marty Klein on January 27, 2023·Sex & Culture, Sex & Politics, Sexual Intelligence Blog

People have sex for many different reasons. The more obvious reasons are pleasure and closeness (and for a few people, conceiving). The covert reasons (which a person may or may not be aware of) include feeling attractive; feeling powerful; feeling normal; wanting something in return; and getting revenge on a third party.

This is all pretty standard stuff.

But for many people these days, sex seems to be about something else entirely—not so much about sex as an activity, but as an idea. An identity. A statement of self, of tribe, of belonging. Maybe as a focus of civil rights activism.

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