The 'F' word: Good enough can be perfect

04 April 2016 - 02:18
By ©The Daily Telegraph

Look out ladies, there's a pejorative new "f-word" guaranteed to erode your self esteem. It's not "fat" or "fossilised" or even "fugly".It's "flawless" - the new benchmark by which women are being judged and found wanting. Especially in the bedroom. Research from the University of Kent shows a growing expectation among men that sex ought to be just like carefully orchestrated pornography is placing so much pressure on women to be perfect they are losing their libido because of stress.

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