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bachelors lead the life of healthy rabbits. The fact is that in their fantasies, at least, men who have had a certain amount of experience often shy away from the boredom unto death of hit-and-run sex –

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    an idea fully in accord with the evidence that unattached men consistently rank among the population’s highest statistics on depression, breakdowns, and suicide.
    Fantasies in which the woman is known, specific, practically tangible (as in a pinup photo) – that is the degree to which she arouses desire. Lester (below) tells us that his fantasies are usually about his girl friend or some other specific woman. If she becomes vague, when “sometimes the woman switches identity abruptly,” this “tends to turn me off.” Allan (below) may remember his first sexual experience because it was so taboo shattering, but he, too, treasures it as a fantasy because the woman is so specific.
    For some men, nothing ever captures the intensity of those early masturbatory fantasies. It isn’t that a man prefers auto-to heterosex; but before girls entered his life, everything seemed possible. A loving woman is more satisfying than one’s own hand, but the teen-age fantasy of the seductive older woman next door inviting you in for more than cookies, is exhilaratingly free of the strings that the real girls he knows attach to sex.
    Many women complain, “My husband hasn’t had any new erotic ideas since he was sixteen. With him, it’s still biff, bam, thank you, ma’am.” I would like to say that no man can be more than 50 percent responsible for carrying naive techniques into his mature years. If the woman doesn’t tell him what she wants, if she fakes sexual response, if she is too inhibited to try something new, why should he change? Of course his actions will still have the same pace as those first masturbatory fantasies in which his own excitement, his own rush to the goal, was all. He may want to slow down, he may try to work at bringing her along with him; but without some idea of what she really wants, how is he to know that one idea is better or worse than any other? Why make the effort?

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    ALLAN

    When I was a child of five or six years, we had a live-in housekeeper, as my parents worked in their small department store. The housekeeper must have been forty to fifty years old at the time. My earliest recollection was her putting my penis in her mouth and sucking ever so gently after she bathed me, and I was having a thrill like nothing else. She would always ask me if I felt good, when she knew I finished. By the age of thirteen I was having intercourse as well as oral sex with her. At that time, dad hired more help in the store and mother came home to care for me.
    When I masturbate I fantasize the woman is around sixty years or so (the older the better), and I am a young child and she fondles me and sucks me and I suck her till her body shudders, and she moans like our old housekeeper did.
    To this day, I will only make love to older women (I am forty-five and married) and enjoy sex better, much better than with younger women.
    It seems the older the woman, the more experience she has, the more I enjoy it.
    LESTER

    I’m thirty, a white graduate student in psychology, unmarried, and have lived with a girl friend for three and a half years. I started masturbating when I was about ten or eleven, and still do it (when I have no girl friend) just about every day. When I have reasonably steady sex with a woman, of course I masturbate less often. No feelings of guilt, etc.; its fun, pleasant, a release. I very rarely fantasize except when I masturbate; then I always do, in fact, I must in order to come.
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    self and my partner; a fantasy would be an intrusion during sex.
    I usually imagine that