http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16552173
I suppose you'd have to describe me as hyper-sexual. I would happily have sex numerous times a day every day, and have done in the past.
I certainly experience discrimination if I ever choose to admit how much sex in a relationship means to me. Thankfully the outright disgust is often masked by an assumption that I'm merely lying to be macho, although being thought a liar is hardly the best of responses to a personal confession. I also object to the assumption that I'm a gullible fool who tries to impress people by falling into established stereotypes. It's not a particularly obvious assumption to make for anyone who's ever met me, exposing even more the antipathy people have towards the idea of a high sexual appetite.
I find it sad that we still live in an era of special interest groups appealing for special tolerance, rather than the sort of broad-mindedness that would help anyone who happens to be a bit different.
The last article I saw on the BBC about having a lot of sex was about a sex addict who was preaching to us all how much better he feels not having sex so much. Perhaps the prudish BBC, and the population in general, has some way to go before sexual taste is truly treated as a matter of personal preference. I have no doubt that if there were a special-interest group trying to protect people like myself against discrimination from conservatives and religious nutters we'd be laughed at, and probably rightly so, because we should be campaigning against bigotry in general.
It's frustrating though, to have a worthy article telling us all to accept people with no sexual appetite, and a worthy article telling us all that abstaining from having as much sex as we might feel we need can make us feel fulfilled. It seems all one-way. Why not an article about a loser telling us all how much happier he is now that he earns money and can hire a prostitute every so often? Why not an article by someone like me appealing for tolerance of those who have a high sex drive?
The bias seems obvious to me, in the selection of which well-meaning subjects to publish. The BBC, known for its current habit of putting up an alternative view to any opinion, however wacky that alternative might be, seems to have missed a golden opportunity. If climate change deniers get a slot, despite being utter idiots, I think my opinions should get a slot, being based as they are on a question of taste. Anyone who doubts whether I'll be happy having lots of sex is welcome to set up an experiment to test it.
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