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    Society often raises men to fear intimacy, defined as the fear of emotional closeness or being vulnerable. A study found that men associate their happiness in a relationship with the frequency of sexual activities - if their needs are not met, communication and intimacy suffer. Additionally, men and women communicate differently, with men using more facts and less emotion, creating an imbalance of power in relationships where a man's communication is often valued more. Men who have a greater fear of intimacy are less likely to be satisfied in their current relationships due to an inability to express emotions and poor communication over time.

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    Society often raises men to fear intimacy, defined as the fear of emotional closeness or being vulnerable. A study found that men associate their happiness in a relationship with the frequency of sexual activities - if their needs are not met, communication and intimacy suffer. Additionally, men and women communicate differently, with men using more facts and less emotion, creating an imbalance of power in relationships where a man's communication is often valued more. Men who have a greater fear of intimacy are less likely to be satisfied in their current relationships due to an inability to express emotions and poor communication over time.

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    Correlations of Men, Power, and the effects on Intimacy

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    Presentation on Men & Intimacy

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    Society often raises men to fear intimacy, defined as the fear of emotional closeness or being vulnerable. A study found that men associate their happiness in a relationship with the frequency of sexual activities - if their needs are not met, communication and intimacy suffer. Additionally, men and women communicate differently, with men using more facts and less emotion, creating an imbalance of power in relationships where a man's communication is often valued more. Men who have a greater fear of intimacy are less likely to be satisfied in their current relationships due to an inability to express emotions and poor communication over time.

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    Society often raises men to fear intimacy, defined as the fear of emotional closeness or being vulnerable. A study found that men associate their happiness in a relationship with the frequency of sexual activities - if their needs are not met, communication and intimacy suffer. Additionally, men and women communicate differently, with men using more facts and less emotion, creating an imbalance of power in relationships where a man's communication is often valued more. Men who have a greater fear of intimacy are less likely to be satisfied in their current relationships due to an inability to express emotions and poor communication over time.

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    Sex, Power & Intimacy In

    Men
    Cristi Vigil

    What is Intimacy?

    Gives people the ability to open up to creativity, trust, and personal


    growth

    Allows one to be open, vulnerable, and receptive

    Society raises most men to fear intimacy

    Defined as: a fear of emotional closeness with others; the fear of being
    sexually intimate with a significant other; the reluctance to open up for fear of
    rejection; and the avoidance of feeling hurt and pain

    For most men: this is the fear of being controlled and losing ones
    freedom or identity.

    According to Sara Bigwood, sex is often mistaken for intimacy, power is


    sought through sex, and power is confused with intimacy.

    Sex & Intimacy

    Study performed by Santtila, Wagner et al,

    Men participated in a study that compared desired and actual frequency of


    sexual behaviors (oral sex, vaginal sex, masturbation)
    Concluded that men correlate the frequency of sexual activities to their overall
    happiness in the relationship
    If needs are met, they are more likely to engage in intimate activities with their
    partner.
    If they are not met, the relationship suffer because of zero communication which
    then leads to zero intimacy
    Sex declines, communication declines, intimacy never can be possible.

    Why Are Men So Different?

    The gender differences in intimacy and power are that men experience
    communication very differently than women.

    A man can communicate with facts and little emotion, where as most
    women communicate with hinting and emotions.

    Society today tends to value a mans form of communication over a


    womans which creates the imbalance of power in male-female
    relationships.

    It could be that a mans greater power in his relationship is the basis for
    sex differences in power strategies used in intimate relationships. (Falbo,
    1980)

    What does this mean for Men?

    The results of this study found that scored of the NMAS correlated positively with
    scores on the FIS, which suggests that men with higher degrees of NMA will more
    greatly fear intimacy with their partner. This also indicates that men who suffer from
    NMA may also have difficulty relating to their partners emotions and in turn come
    to fear them.

    This indicates that men with higher degrees of NMA were less likely to communicate
    effectively with their significant other. This could be the indication that these men
    may lack the necessary emotional vocabulary in order to have quality
    communication with their significant other.

    This indicates that men suffering from NMA are less likely to be satisfied in their current,
    intimate relationship. Because these men suffer from being unable to express themselves
    or lack the ability to identify such emotions, that they in turn gain less satisfaction from
    their relationships. The lack and quality of communication because of NMA seems to only
    gets worse with age and the length of the relationship due to these men feeling it is less
    necessary to communicate in order to make their relationship work. (Karakis, Levant, 2012)

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