Male-centered erotic traditions blame women for being insatiable despite male-centered pacing

Evidence

It is said that in India the husband, while fulfilling his conjugal duties, smokes his pipe to distract himself from his own pleasure and to make his wife’s last; in the West, it is more the number of “times” that a Casanova boasts of; and his supreme pride is to have a woman beg for mercy: according to erotic tradition, this is not often a successful feat; men often complain of their partners’ exacting demands: she is a wild uterus, an ogre, insatiable; she is never assuaged. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘insatiable woman’ trope connects to the moral panics over female appetite in ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ and to broader cross-cultural male anxieties about female desire. — connects to: Some literature prescribes female orgasm as forbidden individualized pleasure; Male authority in love is satiable while female devotion is insatiable; Purity culture assigned women responsibility for controlling male sexual desire — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 389 (+4 more)
• STORYSTEM: The contrast between Indian pipe-smoking technique (prolonging to please the wife) and Western Casanova pride (performing frequency for ego) could seed a story about two incompatible notions of masculine sexual duty.

Broader Connections

• Male authority in love is satiable while female devotion is insatiable #corroborates (0.85)
• Purity culture assigned women responsibility for controlling male sexual desire #corroborates (0.80) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 389
• Complementarian teachers blamed women for men’s sexual behavior #corroborates (0.78)
• Female sexual arousal involves self-alienation whereas male desire remains localized and self-conscious #expands (0.72) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 987