Men in love: living with sexual boredom

Tunariu, Aneta; Reavey, Paula

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“…However private we experience our intimate lives to be, a social constructionist argument would pose, these experiences are always already shaped by current public values, discussions, condemnations or approvals (see, e.g., Ussher & Baker, 1993). Sexual interactions may be conducted in private, such as within the intersubjective realm of a close relationship, where nobody else is actually a witness, but the rules for action, the rules for feelings and the common language for sense-making are each indebted to dominant formulations and practices local to a specific culture (see, e.g., Tunariu & Reavey, 2003;Weeks, 2000). This means that interpreters not only have to interpret and accurately convey the actual talk and intent communicated within specific therapeutic exchanges, they also have to interpret across different world-views.…”

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Mind your language: working with interpreters in healthcare settings and therapeutic encounters

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Tunariu

2009

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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national and international consultancy work and training work with a range of organisations. Her clinical and research interests focus on all aspects of trauma, culture and mental health, professional and ethical practice, working with interpreters in mental health, the mental health of refugees, and asylum seekers and organisational development.Aneta Tunariu is a principal lecturer in psychology at the University of East London and field leader for programmes in guidance, counselling and coaching. She also works as an honorary psychotherapist at a National Health Service clinic in London and has been active in national and international training programmes. Her research interests include the topics of close intimate relationships, sexuality, emotions, subjectivity and relatedness, and psychotherapy. AbstractThe National Health Service and specialist agencies within the UK are striving to ensure that they offer services that are inclusive, accessible and appropriate to all users seeking their services. As such, language interpreters will be required to work alongside health professionals to ensure that service users who are not fluent in the English language can gain full access to health and therapeutic provisions. In addition to reasons of governance, equity of service provision and national legislation there are also sound clinical practice reasons with respect to facilitating work with interpreters. Language is not merely a neutral, descriptive medium but has an active role in shaping and constructing how people view and experience the world. The range of meaning-making possibilities that lay or professional language opens up is always already greatly indebted to the speaker's local culture and has particular relevance in the therapeutic encounter. Working with an interpreter can be a challenging but enriching experience. The benefits of working in close partnership with an interpreter are discussed both at generic level when working as a therapist/clinician in any adult mental health setting and, more specifically, when working with sex and relationships problems using clinical material as illustrations.

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Mind your language: working with interpreters in healthcare settings and therapeutic encounters

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Tunariu

2009

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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“…More generally, in research on couples' relationship satisfaction a number of moderating variables have been identified, including age (King & Scott, 2005;Umberson, Williams, Powers, Chen, & Campbell, 2005); education (Karney & Bradbury, 1995); religiosity (Goddard, Marshall, Olson, & Dennis, 2012); parenthood (Adamsons, 2013;Doss, Rhoades, Stanley, & Markman, 2009;Koepke, Hare, & Moran, 1992); relationship status, i.e. whether couples are cohabiting, married or living separately (Karney & Bradbury, 1995;Tam, Lee, Har, & Chua, 2011;Willoughby, Carroll, & Busby, 2011); relationship duration (Heiman et al, 2011;Karney & Bradbury, 1995); sexual satisfaction (Byers, 2005;del Mar S anchez-Fuentes & Sierra, 2015;Henderson, Lehavot, & Simoni, 2009); sexual boredom (Tunariu & Reavey, 2003, 2007; sexual orientation (Kurdek, 2008;Mohr & Fassinger, 2006); sexual desire (Mark & Murray, 2012); and emotional intimacy (Sanderson & Cantor, 2001;Yoo, Bartle-Haring, Day, & Gangamma, 2013).…”

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Sexually explicit media use and relationship satisfaction: a moderating role of emotional intimacy?

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Štulhofer

Hald

2016

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

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Using a cross-sectional questionnaire design and a sample of 2284 coupled Croatian adults, this study investigated the association between Sexually Explicit Media (SEM) use and relationship satisfaction. Further, possible moderation of emotional intimacy on the relationship between SEM use and relationship satisfaction was investigated. Controlling for sociodemographic, psychosexual and relationship variables, no significant association between SEM use and relationship satisfaction was found. However, among men, a moderating effect of emotional intimacy was found. Thus, higher SEM use was found to be significantly associated with lower relationship satisfaction only among men who reported lower levels of emotional intimacy with their partner.

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“…We consider the analysis of the numeric and interpretative survey data to serve a diagnostic role – a descriptive, frequency‐based snapshot – in mapping out commonality and difference between responses. In contrast, an analysis of interview data (which we have examined elsewhere; Tunariu, 2003; Tunariu & Reavey, 2003) is more explicatory , it makes visible endogenous interpretative frameworks in participant responses. One chief advantage of including a relatively large‐scale survey is to provide a snapshot of the currently prevalent patterns of talking of sexual boredom that is lacking in the relevant academic literature.…”

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Common patterns of sense making: A discursive reading of quantitative and interpretative data on sexual boredom

Tunariu¹,

Reavey²

2007

British J Social Psychol

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This paper explores the notion of sexual boredom through combining the use of qualitative and quantitative methods. Drawing on ideas from discursive psychology, we provide an interpretative reading of both numerical and textual data obtained via a postal questionnaire. Within the mixed-methods strategy adopted here, the questionnaire is treated as a medium that can deliver interesting material about prevalent linguistic resources, their content and pattern of use, available to romantic partners in making sense of sexual boredom. A total of 144 women and 66 men from the general population completed a set of structured questions, including a Sexual Boredom Scale (SBS; Watt & Ewing, 1996), followed by an open-ended question prompting more elaborated views on the topic. Statistical analysis found gender to explain some of the variation across SBS scores. An interpretative analysis of respondent ratings of disagreement/agreement and the actual meaning content of the scale's statements also reveals ranked and gendered regularities. Written responses to the open-ended question were subjected to a thematic analysis, revealing how specific changes to quality of sex, intensity of sexual interest and degree of romantic relatedness with a current partner are used by participants to delineate key dimensions of sexual boredom. Overall, the unfolding narratives of sexual boredom are greatly indebted to a static view of relationship satisfaction founded on wishful expectations for consistent, idealized displays of sexual excitement and interest from oneself and one's partner. The interplay between these understandings and a missing discourse of sexuo-erotic calmness is also considered.

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Men in love: living with sexual boredom

Cited by 19 publications

References 62 publications

Mind your language: working with interpreters in healthcare settings and therapeutic encounters

Mind your language: working with interpreters in healthcare settings and therapeutic encounters

Sexually explicit media use and relationship satisfaction: a moderating role of emotional intimacy?

Common patterns of sense making: A discursive reading of quantitative and interpretative data on sexual boredom

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