#WHAT MEN WANT IN MARRIAGE MOVIE#

'In the old days, we couldn't keep our hands off each other. 'We're both too tired,' confides a third.

I'm into it, but it seems like he's always too tired these days.'

'I can barely remember the last time we had sex. 'That makes me feel better!' says another woman. 'I think we've done it once in the last year. 'We're talking once a year,' says one woman. Instead, these women sound resigned - and exhausted. The confessions are reluctantly given, but not out of modesty, and there is no undercurrent of naughty excitement, as there was in the 1950s scene. But these contemporary wives do not consider the bedroom the husband's domain, nor do they leave the timing or frequency up to him. Some work outside the home others do not.ДЄs in the movie, the conversation focuses on sex. These women are in their 30s and 40s all have several children. Seven women are sipping wine around a long, comfortable table. Half a century later, in a San Francisco kitchen, the subject is the same but the conversation is very different. Still, while the women roll their eyes at their husbands' appetites, the tone is one of thrilled, bubbling excitement. Sex is presented as a wifely duty, an activity that, while not unpleasant, is engaged in because one's husband insists on it.

#WHAT MEN WANT IN MARRIAGE MOVIE#

The movie is set in the '50s and the clothing and interior decorating reflect the era, as does the girlish modesty of the confessions. 'Every night of the week, and three times on the weekend! Can you imagine?' 'Her husband - ' She dissolves into tipsy giggles. 'A girlfriend of mine,' confides the ringleader. 'Ron is more like two or three times a week!' another woman sighs. 'Mike insists on once a week,' one woman finally blurts out. The boldest of the group coaxes the others to reveal how often their husbands want to make love.

In the movie Far From Heaven, four young housewives discuss their sex lives over lunchtime daiquiris.

What men want in marriage