"You are in me!" Exactly. This explains a lot about how differently women and men experience sex. Women are letting men INSIDE themselves. A man can experience sex without letting anything (or anybody!) in.
Comparing those two options, I am very glad to be . . . a WOMAN.
There's a figure in ancient Greek mythology named Tiresias, a prophet. Tiresias angered the gods, who punished him by changing him into a woman for a number of years. Later, he was changed back into a man.
Hera (queen of the gods) and Zeus (king of the gods) later got into an argument about whether men or women get more pleasure in the act of sex. Since Tiresias was the only person who had ever experienced sex both as a man and as a woman, the gods asked Tiresias to decide. Tiresias firmly declared that WOMEN experience more pleasure.
"Tiresias was drawn into an argument between
Hera and her husband
Zeus, on the theme of who has more pleasure in sex: the man, as Hera claimed; or, as Zeus claimed, the woman, as Tiresias had experienced both. Tiresias replied, 'Of ten parts a man enjoys one only.'"
en.wikipedia.org
Tiresias had deep first-hand knowledge of the pleasure a woman gets from sex with a man, by reason of Tiresias having been punitively transformed by a curse by the goddess Hera into a real live flesh-and-******* woman who married and bore children to her husband.
For fully seven years Tiresias continued life as a woman before being transformed back to full and functional maleness, again supernaturally.
The myth goes on to relate that Tiresias, after his restoration to manhood, was struck blind by the gods as punishment for revealing their secrets to human-kind. Because of his blindness he wouldn't have been able to discern, by looking into her eyes, the pleasure any woman he fucked thereafter was getting from him in the very act.
But I posit that his blindness gave him a huge advantage over sighted people in loving and fucking, inasmuch as it is universally known that many millions of totally blind-since-birth males in the real world are incredibly sensitive, super-sensual and erotically skilled in lovemaking---as legions of women including my ex-wife enthusiastically attest to---by reason of them having to rely on their of-necessity much more highly-developed senses of touch, hearing and smell---compared to those of sighted males---and their reputedly superior sexual empathy when romancing and fucking a woman.
Can any woman-contributor here who has had a lover who is totally blind confirm the truth of that?
Given the above, the saying that "Love is blind" may well turn out to be delightfully truer in the positive sense than it is in the negative one. As for "Blinded by Love"----that's between me and my beautiful buddy.
Tiresias was described as being a complexly "liminal " figure; that is one mediating between humankind and the gods, male and female, blind and seeing, present and future, this world and the Underworld. He was also supernaturally blessed with extraordinary longevity, living out fully 7 human lifetimes. Which would have given him plenty of time to perfect his very likely extraordinary lovemaking skills, particularly as a blind man.
I suggest too that Tiresias' mediations between, amongst other beings, males and females may well have given him unique understandings and insights into the secret sexual thoughts and physical and emotional responsivities of women when they are being fucked by a man andk in other interpersonal scenarios.
It's a fascinating subject in real life as well as Greek mythology apparently, especially for me.
When I get to meet the extraordinarily and supernaturally informed Tiresias in the Afterlife I will remember to ask him what it was like for him to be fucked by his husband and if his experience of that benefited his lovemaking with women as a restored, albeit blind, man. With me being bisexual and homosexually versatile his answer might well be "You ought to know, and if you don't, go ask your buddy". Right.
So much to know, so little time. In this Life anyhow.