{"id":39,"date":"2011-10-06T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mormontherapist\/2011\/10\/men-like-affection-too\/"},"modified":"2011-10-06T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T14:13:00","slug":"men-like-affection-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mormontherapist\/2011\/10\/men-like-affection-too.html","title":{"rendered":"Men like Affection Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">We often mistakenly assume that women want affection and men want sex.\u00a0 These types of myths can be harmful to both men and women since it limits our expectations and behaviors of both our spouse and self.\u00a0 In the following study they found that BOTH men and women rated higher on overall sexual satisfaction if they scored high on forms of physical affection such as kissing, cuddling, caresses, etc.\u00a0 \n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ksy5vV\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sexual Satisfaction and Relationship Happiness in Midlifeand Older Couples in Five Countries<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often mistakenly assume that women want affection and men want sex.\u00a0 These types of myths can be harmful to both men and women since it limits our expectations and behaviors of both our spouse and self.\u00a0 In the following study they found that BOTH men and women rated higher on overall sexual satisfaction if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":766,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Men like Affection Too<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We often mistakenly assume that women want affection and men want sex.&nbsp; 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