And I'm saying that sexual energy in males is not subject to sublimation. The sex drive certainly is motivator for success, to be sure, but sexual energy can only be used for one thing (or, just plain resisted). It's not transferrable, alas. To put it anothter way, my intellectual creativity (I'm a product development scientist) is not at all derived from my sexuality -- they're just 2 unrelated things..
Also, women with high sex drives are not necessarily overbearing.
I said the opposite. Overbearing women don't strike me as very (hetero)sexual beings at all.
My reference to "it takes two strong legs to support a torso (marriage)" in another post on this thread refutes the mistaken theory that submissive women must be wimpy ladies. To the contrary, let us hope both partners in a marriage are both healthy, honest and mature.
Agree with you 100% there. My wife is strong and certainly not overbearing. Yet she exhibits Godly submission in all areas where that counts.
RW, I really don't think we are disagreeing. But there is a misunderstanding in that I am saying that without a good sex drive, I doubt the male, or the female, for that matter, would have the motivation to be successful.
For both genders, by being creative in achieving that success, I believe that force is in itself the sex drive.
Perhaps "sublimate" is confusing the issue.
You mentioned motivation. Motivation has little to do with it, in my book, although there certainly can be motivation, ie: to provide for one's family, or it can be to shore up one's ego; and again a keen-ness for competition, etc., etc..