Insiders’ views of marital sex: A dyadic analysis

Julien, Danielle; Bouchard, Camil; Gagnon, Martin; Pomerleau, Andrée

doi:10.1080/00224499209551653

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“…Ard (1977) surveyed couples who had been married more than 20 years, and he found that husbands continued to want sex more often than their wives. More recent work by Julien, Bouchard, Gagnon, and Pomerleau (1992) confirmed that men in long-term relationships want sex more frequently than their female partners and want more than they are getting. Even among couples in which the partners are past the age of 60 years, the common pattern is for the man to want sex more than the woman (Bergström-Walan & Nielsen, 1990).…”

Section: Women's Refusal or Withholding Of Sexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conquest by Force: A Narcissistic Reactance Theory of Rape and Sexual Coercion

Baumeister

Catanese

Wallace

2002

Review of General Psychology

143

115

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Men's efforts to force women to engage in unwanted sexual activity can be explained by a combination of reactance theory and narcissism. Reactance theory suggests that deprivation of specific sexual options will cause men to desire them more, to try to reclaim them by forcing sex and by aggressing against the woman who has refused them, and assorted findings support this analysis. Narcissism is proposed to moderate the link, especially because coercion is relatively rare in response to sexual refusals. Evidence about sexually coercive men supports the narcissism hypothesis, such as by showing self-serving cognitive distortions, an excessive concern with being admired, an inflated sense of entitlement, selectively low empathy, and a broadly exploitative approach to heterosexual relations.

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Section: Women's Refusal or Withholding Of Sexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conquest by Force: A Narcissistic Reactance Theory of Rape and Sexual Coercion

Baumeister

Catanese

Wallace

2002

Review of General Psychology

143

115

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“…A dyad census typically is not feasible except for very small populations, although dyad samples have been used to assess the consistency of male and female reports on sexual behaviour (Kinsey et al ., ; Julian et al ., ; Seal, ; Ochs and Binik, ). These consist of couple data, so analysis is restricted to samples where a partnership is known to exist, and, because the focus tends to be on sexual behaviour within the partnership, information about other sexual partners is rarely included.…”

Section: Sampling Methods In Surveys Of Dyadic Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Log-Linear Modelling Approach to Assessing The Consistency of Ego Reports of Dyadic Outcomes With Applications to Fertility and Sexual Partnerships

Admiraal

Handcock

2014

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Summary We propose a log-linear model to assess the consistency of ego reports of dyadic outcomes. We do so specifically in the context where males and females report on shared events, and we demonstrate how inconsistencies can be assessed by using a log-linear model that estimates separate mixing totals for each set of reports. This modelling approach immediately allows us to determine where inconsistencies in reports occur. To demonstrate how our method can be easily implemented for survey data, we apply it to both the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey and the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth. Our analysis identifies inconsistencies in male and female reports of concurrent partnerships and the number of biological children.

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“…Instead, the majority of researchers have assumed that sexual desire is unidimensional, using single items to assess overall or trait sexual desire based on cognitions (e.g., sexual thoughts, urges, or fantasies) and behaviors (e.g., frequency of intercourse or masturbation). These studies demonstrate that men report experiencing greater desire on average than do women [e.g., 3,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. One methodological concern with this approach is report bias.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Sexual Desirementioning

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Gender-Specificity of Solitary and Dyadic Sexual Desire among Gynephilic and Androphilic Women and Men

Dawson¹,

Chivers²

2014

The Journal of Sexual Medicine

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Introduction Incentive motivation theory proposes that sexual desire emerges from sexual arousal, and is triggered by sexually competent stimuli. Research demonstrates gender and sexual orientation differences in the features that contribute to the competency of sexual stimuli. Men's and gynephilic women's genital arousal tends to be gender-specific with preferred gender eliciting significantly greater genital arousal than nonpreferred gender. In contrast, stimuli depicting preferred and nonpreferred gender elicit similar degrees of genital arousal among androphilic women, termed a gender-nonspecific pattern. Given these differences in the features that elicit a sexual response, and that sexual desire is proposed to emerge from sexual arousal, the question remains as to whether sexual desire would emerge only through exposure to preferred stimuli or whether patterns of responsive desire would parallel those observed for genital arousal. Aim The study aims to examine patterns of dyadic and solitary sexual desire in response to stimuli differing in incentive value. Methods Thirty androphilic women, 21 gynephilic women, 21 gynephilic men, and 16 androphilic men participated in a sexual psychophysiological session. Participants viewed sexual stimuli that varied the gender of the actors and the intensity of sexual activities depicted. Main Outcome Measures Participants reported their degree of desire for sex with a partner (dyadic desire) and desire to masturbate (solitary desire), before and after each film. Results Men and gynephilic women exhibited gender-specific patterns of sexual desire. Androphilic women's dyadic desire showed significantly less differentiation between genders, and their solitary desire did not differentiate at all. No gender difference was observed for either type of desire. All groups reported greater desire as stimulus intensity increased. Conclusions Gender-nonspecific sexual response is not limited to the sexual arousal patterns of androphilic women, but extends to include responsive sexual desire. Men and gynephilic women, however, show gender-specific responsive sexual desire that parallels their sexual arousal patterns.

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Insiders’ views of marital sex: A dyadic analysis

Cited by 22 publications

References 36 publications

Conquest by Force: A Narcissistic Reactance Theory of Rape and Sexual Coercion

Conquest by Force: A Narcissistic Reactance Theory of Rape and Sexual Coercion

A Log-Linear Modelling Approach to Assessing The Consistency of Ego Reports of Dyadic Outcomes With Applications to Fertility and Sexual Partnerships

Gender-Specificity of Solitary and Dyadic Sexual Desire among Gynephilic and Androphilic Women and Men

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