Savage Love

From Unsatisfied Cock-loving Kid Here In Maryland

I could have shattered the myth myself, FUCKHIM, and called Sewell on her crap. But what good would that have done? If I ranted about all the women I know out there with high libidos—including the female half of a straight swinging couple who came over for dinner last week—Sewell and her ilk would have shrugged it off. "Of course he would say that," they would have said, gripping their chocolate bars a little tighter. "He's a man."

Instead, I accepted the premise of Sewell's book—women have naturally lower libidos than men—and ran with it, addressing women with low libidos as if their condition wasn't just the "norm," also a debatable point, but the natural state of all women everywhere. I did this knowing that the response from women with high libidos would be deafening—and harder for the Sewells of the world to dismiss.

Love your column, love you. But your column regarding women and their libidos was dead wrong. My friends and I can vouch for the existence of women who think about sex constantly and who want sex constantly—and not just the handjob/blowjob variety. Straight-up, dead-on, penis-in-vagina—or wherever—SEX!

You are absolutely right in this regard: You cannot have monogamy AND a low libido. I have given quite a few MEN their walking papers because of this.

Weekly Reader

I wanted to chime in on women and our supposedly low libidos. I expect that this is true for many women, perhaps even most. However, it isn't true for me. On an average day, I would prefer to have sex twice. This is too much sex for the average man. Men THINK they want sex every day, but when given the opportunity, they start complaining about how tired they are after a week or two. I have always been this way, since I was a teenager, so it's not just some hormone surge or something. Past boyfriends have called me everything from a nympho (I am not) to a whore (I'm actually good at monogamy). A couple guys did behave as though they had discovered the Holy Sex Grail, which did help me to stop feeling so ashamed.

High Libido Lady

Jeez, Dan, you really are not helping us lesbians by continuing to write bullshit like all lesbians like to sit around and eat Doritos rather than have sex! I would sooner be seen sucking some random guy's dick on the street than eating a bag of Doritos! I like to have hot sex with my girlfriend all the time, and we've been together for over a year.

Skinny Sexy Lesbian

I am a 30-year-old woman with a strong libido, so I don't know if my advice to women with low libidos is very valuable, but I'm surprised that in that entire rant you failed to mention alcohol or pot. A glass of wine or a few hits usually have me ready to hump the nearest thing to a phallus in sight within minutes. And the doctor recommends a glass of wine a day!

One Of The Few

Oh, Dan, you continue to rock my world. So many of my straight male friends are trapped in marriages where the woman stopped having sex the day they said the vows (and stopped giving head the day she got the engagement ring). But can you warn guys that they, too, can't expect fidelity if they won't put out? Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I don't have a healthy sex drive, and I'm tired of libido-flagging boys saying I'm a whore just 'cause I want it once a week. I'm expecting to hear more of that, thanks to Sewell's book.

Enthusiastic Not Pathological