I’m Having the Sex I Once Dreamed Of. But It’s Left Me Feeling Very Conflicted.
The article discusses a person's experience with having a fulfilling sex life but feeling conflicted about it. They express feelings of exhaustion and disconnect at times, despite enjoying the intimacy with their partners. The advice column encourages open communication with partners about these feelings and reassessing expectations around sexual encounters.
- ▪The individual is currently seeing multiple partners and having sex frequently.
- ▪They have started to feel exhausted by the frequency of sexual encounters, despite initially enjoying them.
- ▪The advice suggests that it's important to communicate feelings and reassess expectations with partners.
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| Original publisher | Slate |
| Canonical URL | https://slate.com/advice/2026/05/sex-life-advice-conflicted-amount.html?via=rss |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 16:00:00 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T16:01:31.036Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T16:01:31.036Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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How to Do It I’m Having the Sex I Once Dreamed Of. But It’s Left Me Feeling Very Conflicted. Where do I go from here? Advice by Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak May 21, 202612:00 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Copy Link Share Share Comment Copy Link Share Share Comment How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’m currently seeing a few different wonderful partners, all three of whom are eager to see me at least weekly. But I think I might be having too much sex. We don’t have sex every time, but… pretty much every time.
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