Genuinely curious about this, since I see some variation of the following so often:

It’s not the norm, but a few times, sure, I had sex with some guys on the first night. And yes, I did various sexual acts with them that I now have sworn off, but now that I’m dating this sweet new guy who seems like “relationship material”, I want to take it slow and don’t want to really be doing that crazy sexual stuff anymore.

Now, can you imagine for a moment, reading that as a man, and the subtext behind statements like that?

Let’s break it down in terms how “what women say” vs “what men hear”

  • There were some guys I met that I was so primally attracted to that I broke my rules out of sheer desire.

  • My desire and lust for those guys made me want to do sexual things with him that I wouldn’t want to do with most other men

  • I definitely would have entered relationships with these “hot” guys if they had been willing to/ able to be monogamous to me. I simply couldn’t get him to commit after our hook ups.

  • Although I did various sex acts that you, relationship guy, could only fantasize about, I will not do them with you because I honestly don’t find you primally attractive enough to do them with.

  • Rest assured, I’d re-disocver these things should we break up and I hook up with the “for fun’ guy again.

  • Although I wasn’t super happy that “for fun” guy was banging 3-4 other girls while we were hooking up, I knew that I really had no choice but to allow it in order to keep having sex with such a hot guy. If he was just a normal guy (like you) I’d never put up with that.

Again, I know this is not what women mean to say when they say some variation of “that was in the past” or “that was just a hook up”, can you at least comprehend that, to men, they can often hear that as another way of saying “That guy was hot enough to get sex with ease, but you are not”?