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This reminds me of the difficulties Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette had in conceiving an heir:

> In a letter to his brother Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Joseph II described them as "a couple of complete blunderers."[50] He disclosed to Leopold that the inexperienced—then still only 22-year-old—Louis XVI had confided in him the course of action he had been undertaking in their marital bed; saying Louis XVI "introduces the member," but then "stays there without moving for about two minutes," withdraws without having completed the act and "bids goodnight."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette#Motherhood,_c...

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This is such a bizarre thing to do from a young man/evolutionary instinct standpoint. I wonder if his hormones were awry. I see speculation that he had hypogonadism or phimosis.

The crown prince of France spent his entire life surrounded by courtiers who would fulfill his every whim. He barely needed to lift a fork to his mouth himself.

Maybe he had depression from this kind of passive lifestyle.

Reading this, it might be as likely that they didn't sufficiently like each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XVI#Marriage_and_family_...

"Important" people get trained into helplessness very quickly. They are the symbol that validates power, but any real action they take is a risk to the movers and shakers surrounding them.

I think it follows that people who have everything given to them would turn out to be ungiving lovers, either out of ignorance or expectation.

Sure, but in this particular case he's not even being selfish.

He was also hella inbred. Look at a picture of him. Not too surprising he’d have a messed up endocrine system.

It could also simply have been impotence that he did not want to acknowledge.

Made perhaps even more likely with Antoinette's alleged proclivities, her children's questionable paternity, and so on.

Always leave them wanting more

I believe that’s called “soaking”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soaking_(sexual_practice)

Someone decided that that article needed an illustration. Astounding the breadth and depth of things you can find on the internet.

Oh, Wikipedia is in the constant change of what do need an illustration and what does not or what type it should be. Back in 2009 the most pics in the sex and genital articles had a self-made pics, which even prompted this:

  Internet access - $25
  A digital camera - $250
  Making the whole world see your vagina - priceless
  For everything else there is MasterCard

And somewhere in 2018 I discovered what almost all photos in these articles (on the English Wikipedia, other languages didn't changed much) were replaced by the most basic pictures or the illustrations from 19th century anatomical atlases.

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