Withholding Sex As Punishment

This topic was created in the Miscellaneous forum by Ssasy on Friday, February 28, 2014 and has 31 replies.

Understanding Withholding Sex as Punishment in Relationships

Withholding sex as punishment is a controllive behavior that can harm relationship trust and intimacy. It often stems from unresolved conflicts or power struggles. Recognizing this pattern is essential for healthy communication and seeking solutions that foster mutual respect and understanding.

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@Ssasy
13 Years1,000+ Posts

hahah @ pot head! Hey Its not me, a friend of mine and I was discussing an incident. ANd she said after that Im not giving up anything!

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@tsar322
12 YearsAquarius

Witholdin sex as a punishment while you mess round with the next man? Hahaha... jokes on you!

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@Jizzusizjizzin
13 Years500+ PostsAquarius

The idea of punishment implies that one partner is trying to take control of the other. I think that both partners should always be on equal footing.

Withholding sex sounds like abusive behavior to me.

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@miamivirgo
14 Years500+ Posts

Well eventually if you are in a long enough relationship and its rocky sex will come into the fray.

As will all things. When having sex with your partner feels as a reward for bad behavior or you don't feel like it and still maybe hurt from from whatever and this feeling continues on. Its time to start the exit because it will probably never get better.

Now if your angry but not hurt and you carry it on longer and then use sex as a weapon then the other partner should start the exit plan. Once you get a taste for the nuclear device its hard not to pull it out of the emotional arsenal.

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@tsar322
12 YearsAquarius

Do it right back to her! Women like sex just as much as men its just media like to make us men into sex thirsty, raping, pillaging, perverted, dick for brain fools!

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@aquapiscescusp
14 Years10,000+ Posts

Posted by tiziani
The only time I've come across this personally was when my two friends were going out with one another for about 2-3 years, he cheated on her. I can't remember if he admitted to sleeping with a woman or something else. But anyway her punishment was for him not to touch her at all for 2 weeks.

Long term, they didn't work out.

2 weeks, that's it?

LOL a couple I know, the guy cheated on her, she found out a few years back, she's still punishing him. She must've withheld sex for months. I don't know why they stay together.

He's a scorp, she's a virgo.

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@Ssasy
13 Years1,000+ Posts

Ive gotten upset and didnt innitiate, but they didnt either for about a week. But I never said HEY NO SEX.

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@Ssasy
13 Years1,000+ Posts

Scorpios Enjoy sex wayyy too much for me to belive that ^^ this scorp was NOT getting it elsewhere.

Ive heard Virgo women are a bit boring in the bedroom so withoholding sex may not have been a problem. They are very into themselves.

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@aquapiscescusp
14 Years10,000+ Posts

Posted by tiziani

Posted by aquapiscescusp

Posted by tiziani
The only time I've come across this personally was when my two friends were going out with one another for about 2-3 years, he cheated on her. I can't remember if he admitted to sleeping with a woman or something else. But anyway her punishment was for him not to touch her at all for 2 weeks.

Long term, they didn't work out.

2 weeks, that's it?

LOL a couple I know, the guy cheated on her, she found out a few years back, she's still punishing him. She must've withheld sex for months. I don't know why they stay together.

He's a scorp, she's a virgo.

Funny, she was a Scorp. He was a Leo, but I suspect with a lot of Virgo because I'm always thinking of him as one.

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What behavior makes him more a virgo?

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@aquapiscescusp
14 Years10,000+ Posts

yeah, that's annoying about virgos... for some strange reason I attract them, they must like my upbeat, optimistic nature but it's draining

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@Ssasy
13 Years1,000+ Posts

My Capricorn friend was with a Virgo for about 6 years.
And he would constantly look for reasurance from her, would always discuss how he disliked promiscuous women, but after the relationship became promiscuous.
she felt like she was raising her child instead of a relationship.

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@TMV
13 Years1,000+ Posts

Yes it's real. Absolutely all Virgo stereotypes are true for ALL Virgos. We consider it our personal duties in life to behave like frigid cardboard in the bedroom and aspire to have the most mundane of semi-motionless missionary sex because anything else could be enjoyable. What's enjoyable could upset our knitting needles and get messy. Don't even think about trying to get fresh outside of your scheduled day and time for biological recreation.

As always it's a BYOL affair.
(Bring Your Own Lysol)

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@LetltB
13 Years5,000+ Posts

Withholding Sex As Punishment ??

...expect someone else to be punished with sex

.....and loving it 😉

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@WaterCup
15 Years10,000+ Posts

At what point does it become punishment because I personally won't sleep with someone if I'm angry with them. It's not about "punishing", it just means I'm too cross to find you sexually arousing right now.

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@enfant_terrible
18 Years10,000+ PostsLeo

Yeah that's not punishment.

Punishment is when you withold sex on general principle for days, weeks or months at a time... and not because you're simply not feeling like it. That is unless the latter is not some sort of passive-aggressive punishment stance. lol

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@Damnata
16 Years25,000+ PostsVirgo

Posted by tiziani

Posted by Damnata

Posted by tiziani
I can't remember if he admitted to sleeping with a woman or something else.

Damn Tiz, what something else? -.-

It's 4 pm and I am scurred.

Well, flirting with the woman? Talking with her suggestively? I have no idea what went on. But in today's society people get mad at "emotional cheating" so it doesn't take much for the horse to bolt from the stable a long time ago.

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I read that as "with a woman or something else" => something else = a dog/a ghost/anything other than a woman.

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