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How Learning to Speak My Mind in Bed Saved My Flailing Sex Life
We’ve soaked up every rom-com where some semi-domineering male swoops in and gives us the best sex ever, followed by a happily ever after. In these stories, the female protagonist is without fail charming and polite, yet also sexy and bold; fierce and fiery, yet meek and mild. I’m not sure who came up with this idea of how a ‘perfect’ woman behaves – probably a person in a basement who has never encountered a woman in real life – but for some reason, it was the kind of woman I always tried to emanate whilst in bed…