Tag: Female Sexual Desire

  • 06 / 08 Your Body Has Its Own Season. | Sexual Desire and the Seasons of Life for Women in Their 40s | OPUS

    06 / 08 Your Body Has Its Own Season. | Sexual Desire and the Seasons of Life for Women in Their 40s | OPUS

    Enjoy Who I Am, Just as I Am. | All 8 Chapters

    CHAPTER 06 / 08

    Your Body Has Its Own Season.

    A woman in her 40s enjoying who she is in soft light | Your body has its own season

    The way your body feels has its own seasons—each unique to a particular time in your life.

    The body has seasons, too.

    A body in its 20s and a body in its 40s may gradually differ in how they feel and what they desire.

    And in your 50s or 60s, you may discover yet another version of yourself.

    The strength of sexual desire does not remain the same throughout life.

    The relationship between a woman’s age and sexual desire varies greatly from person to person. It cannot simply be said that every woman reaches her peak in her 40s.

    At the same time, some women become more clearly aware of their sexual desires from their late 30s into their 40s.

    You have gained experience and understand your body better than before.

    You are also beginning to understand what you want.

    There may be a little more room in your life as well.

    When several such circumstances come together,

    “I want to enjoy this because of who I am now.”

    That feeling may begin to emerge.

    What will you want in your 50s?

    What will move your heart when you are in your 60s?

    That will be for you, at that age, to decide.

    You may still want the same things you do now.

    Or you may be enjoying something completely different.

    This is not a fixed expense that you must continue paying every month.

    It could be once a month.

    Once every few months.

    Or once a year.

    “This is how I would like to spend my time right now.”

    Choose it on the day you feel that way.

    If the body has seasons, enjoy what can only be experienced in this particular season.

    Is that not a perfectly natural luxury for a grown woman?

    Time that suits the season you are in.

    Once a month, or at a more leisurely pace. The choice is yours.

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  • 01 / 08 Not Lonely. But Some Nights, I Want to Be Touched. | Sexual Desire and Loneliness in Women in Their 40s | OPUS

    01 / 08 Not Lonely. But Some Nights, I Want to Be Touched. | Sexual Desire and Loneliness in Women in Their 40s | OPUS

    Enjoying Who I Am, As I Am, Right Now. | All 8 Chapters

    CHAPTER 01 / 08

    Not Lonely. But Some Nights, I Want to Be Touched.

    A woman in her 40s quietly enjoying time to herself in Tokyo at night | Not lonely. But some nights, I want to be touched.

    Having a fulfilling life and physically longing for someone are not necessarily the same thing. Loneliness and sexual desire can each arise quietly from different places.

    I have a career.

    I have a family.

    I have friends.

    And I do not particularly mind spending my days off alone.

    My relationship with my husband or partner also continues peacefully enough in terms of our everyday life together.

    Or perhaps I have been living alone for a long time and have become entirely comfortable with that life.

    Women like this are by no means uncommon in their 30s and 40s.

    We dine alone, shop alone and travel alone.

    We know how to look after our own emotional well-being.

    We do not need someone beside us simply to get through each day.

    Women are often surprisingly good at living independently.

    And yet, from time to time, the body expresses feelings that come from somewhere entirely different.

    I want to be held.

    I want to kiss someone.

    I want to touch a man’s body.

    I want to be touched slowly and tenderly.

    I want to be desired as a woman.

    I want to feel sexually fulfilled.

    Feelings like these.

    They do not necessarily mean that you are “lonely.”

    They can arise even when your life is fulfilling.

    They can arise even when your career is going well.

    They can arise even when you cherish your family.

    They can arise even when you are blessed with good friends.

    Because loneliness and sexual desire do not come from the same place.

    Feeling emotionally fulfilled and physically longing for someone do not always align perfectly.

    Perhaps, as we grow older, we come to experience them more clearly as two separate things.

    “It isn’t that I want a boyfriend.”

    “It isn’t that I am deeply dissatisfied with my life with my husband.”

    “I enjoy my everyday life.”

    And then comes the quiet thought:

    “But every now and then…”

    A small feeling that lingers.

    At OPUS, we believe that whatever lies beyond that “but” is something deeply important.

    Even if you have not decided anything yet.

    Simply tell us what you are feeling right now, exactly as it is.

    All 8 Chapters

    1. Not Lonely. But Some Nights, I Want to Be Touched.
    2. The Hardest Person to Understand Is Yourself.
    3. Time Moves a Little Differently for Men and Women.
    4. What You Want Is Not Necessarily a Boyfriend.
    5. Sexual Desire Alone Arrives in the Here and Now.
    6. Your Body Has Its Own Season Now.
    7. Every Stage of Life Has Its Own Pleasures.
    8. “This Is What I Want Right Now.”
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