Trajectories of intimate partnerships, sexual attitudes, desire and satisfaction

Ammar, N.; Gauthier, Jacques‐Antoine; Widmer, Éric

doi:10.1016/j.alcr.2014.06.001

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“…On the one hand, having many partners may be a consequence of having a high sexual desire (Dawson & Chivers, 2014 ). On the other hand, a study led in Switzerland (Ammar et al, 2014 ) found that having had few or no intimate partners was correlated with a low sexual desire. An explanation may be that sexual desire drives sexual behavior and therefore, the higher the level of sexual desire, the higher the number of sexual partners.…”

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“…The level of sexual desire may be related to a variety of factors such as socio-demographic ones (Ammar et al, 2014 ), health status (WHO, 2010 ), body image (Dosch et al, 2016a ), adolescence sexuality (Boislard et al, 2016 ), relationship status (Dawson & Chivers, 2014 ), level of sexual satisfaction (Dosch et al, 2016b ), sexual practices such as masturbation (Krejčová et al, 2017 ) and history of lifetime unwanted sexual experiences (Maseroli et al, 2018 ; Turchik & Hassija, 2014 ). Therefore, sexual desire is influenced by contextual, physiological and relationship factors which may affect females and males in different ways (Dawson & Chivers, 2014 ).…”

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Characteristics of Young People Reporting a Low Sexual Desire in Switzerland

Chok,

Suris,

Barrense-Dias

2023

Sexuality & Culture

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This study explores the characteristics of young female and male adults (mean age 26.3 years) reporting a low sexual desire. A 2017 Swiss national survey was carried out among young adults. Participants were divided into two groups based on their level of sexual desire: Low and High. Overall, 17.2% of females and 5.7% of males reported a low sexual desire. At the multivariate level, compared to females in the High group, females in the Low group had higher odds of being dissatisfied with their social life and with their sexual life in the past 4 weeks, having no current relationship and having accepted several times sexual intercourse without really wanting. Compared to males in the High group, males in the Low group had higher odds of reporting a non-heterosexual attraction (trend), having no current relationship and having accepted several times sexual intercourse without really wanting. The prevailing idea that young people, particularly males, always have high levels of sexual desire may not be accurate and warrants further consideration. These results show that sexual desire encompasses social aspects and underscore importance of addressing how stereotypes and social norms may influence our sexuality.

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Characteristics of Young People Reporting a Low Sexual Desire in Switzerland

Chok,

Suris,

Barrense-Dias

2023

Sexuality & Culture

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“…There have been studies on non-probability samples to understand the trajectories and predictors of these trajectories. 21 , 22 …”

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Love, sex, and commitment: relationship choices and trajectories among unmarried youth in India

Darak¹,

Parchure²,

Darak³

et al. 2022

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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There is limited research in India to understand young people's decision-making processes about intimate relationships before marriage. This paper, adopting a life course perspective, explains relationship choices and diachronic trajectories of relationships from adolescence to young adulthood. Retrospective data were collected from 1240 never married 20–29-year-old men and women living in Pune using a relationships history calendar. All the relationships from 10 years of age onwards were plotted on the calendar, and information on predictor variables was collected through structured questionnaires. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics. Sequence analysis approach was used to identify different typologies. Overall, 76% of the participants reported having at least one relationship. More women compared to men (84% vs 70%) ever had a relationship. The median age of starting the first relationship was 17 years for women and 18 for men. Different relationship types were reported, such as “serious”, casual, “friends with benefit”, and “exploring”. The level of emotional involvement, commitment, and physical intimacy significantly differed in different relationship types with significant gender differences. Four typologies of relationships were observed, labelled as (1) Commitment–No sex ( N = 187); (2) Commitment–Sex-Some exploration ( N = 189); (3) No commitment–Exploration ( N = 281), and (4) No relationship ( N = 583). Compared to men, women were more likely to follow the trajectory of “Commitment-No sex” (RR 2.13, CI 1.5–3.03). Family environment was significantly related to young people's relationship choices. The findings strongly suggest the need to adopt a developmental perspective towards intimate relationships to understand and address the vulnerabilities of young people across the life course.

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“…Bertogg and Szydlik 2016). A third approach lies in the life course perspective, in which family is studied in terms of family-related transitions and biographical phases (Ammar et al 2014;Elder 1977). However, there are no common overarching terminologies or heuristics available that are suitable for all research purposes trying to define or study 'family'.…”

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Personal understandings and cultural conceptions of family in European societies

Lück

Castrén

2018

European Societies

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Family lives in Europe have undergone considerable changes during the past decades. These changes have made it difficult or even impossible to grasp what people mean by 'a family' in their everyday life by an objective, predefined set of criteria. Marriage, a couple relationship, parent-child relationships based on shared bio-genetic substance, a shared household or functions such as reproduction or primary socialisation remain important characteristics of some of the most frequent family forms. However, against the background of an increasing destandardisation of family trajectories, growing importance of family ties across households, complex stepfamily constellations, advanced reproductive technology and negotiated gender relations, they do not hold up as definitions for the family as such.

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Trajectories of intimate partnerships, sexual attitudes, desire and satisfaction

Cited by 9 publications

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Characteristics of Young People Reporting a Low Sexual Desire in Switzerland

Characteristics of Young People Reporting a Low Sexual Desire in Switzerland

Love, sex, and commitment: relationship choices and trajectories among unmarried youth in India

Personal understandings and cultural conceptions of family in European societies

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