You would think by now that I would stop being surprised by the conversations I have.  Let’s face it, I’m a Sexpert.

A lot of my conversations revolve around relationships and sex, and quite often they can be pretty explicit.  I have no problem with that, sometimes the only way to describe something is to describe it as it is and that often means using language that my clients are comfortable with to save them worrying about any sensitivities I may have.

Sex is sex, it can be beautiful and glorious, romantic and perfect, and equally it can be downright dirty and disgusting, depending upon your particular proclivities.

None of that surprises me.

What does surprise me, however, is the number of clients I work with, and women I speak to, who don’t ask for what they want in the bedroom.

These are women just like you and me.

You ask for what you want in a bar or restaurant, or even when you go shopping.   You know what you want to drink or eat, you know what brand you want to buy and you even make a choice over how much you’re prepared to pay for something.

If you’re in business, you ask for the sale and ask for payment. At the top of your career you’ve asked for promotions and pay rises.

Even in a https://amzn.to/3kcLJx0burger chain you ask for your burger, your way.

So why do so many women avoid asking for what they want in the bedroom or in a relationship?

The answers I hear most often are;

“It seems wrong to ask for what I want.”

“ It’s embarrassing to ask for what I want.”

“Women aren’t meant to ask for what they want.”

The over-riding theme is ‘nice girls don’t ask for what they want in the bedroom’.

And I understand that, for so long women have lived under the constraints of a patriarchal society dictating what is and isn’t acceptable and reigning shame on any woman who dared to suggest that she had rights not only in the voting booth but in the bedroom too.

We don’t even have to look to history for examples of this shame.  Any woman deemed to be selling herself, leading someone on or just making her sexual desire known is labelled anything from a common whore to a slut or slag, whilst men are allowed to sow their wild oats and enjoy the adulation whilst boasting about their conquests in the bar or club.  Men aren’t judged for literally buying sex but women are judged for selling sex.

But this is a weary argument and one that I don’t intend to resurrect right now.

In my opinion, women have a right to ask for what they want, just as men do and the sex industry is nothing more than a service industry with entrepreneurial women using what they own to fulfil a market need.  That is the very premise of business. And is another debate for another time.

But therein lies the answer to my question.  Women don’t ask for what they want in the bedroom because they have been conditioned to believe it is shameful, dirty and degrading to do so. Yet the quickest and easiest way to get exactly what you want and alleviate feelings of dissatisfaction, un-fulfilment and frustration is to ask for it.

After all, you wouldn’t put up with the wrong meal or wrong coffee every single time you ordered it, you’d ask for it to be changed and served just as you like it.

Asking for what you want in the bedroom or in a relationship is no different.  The words and terminology change but all you’re actually asking is for the provider to fulfil a need, just as food fulfils hunger and water satiates thirst.