Disfunciones en el deseo sexual y su relación con los niveles de satisfacción en universitarios

Abstract

Introduction: According to literature, sexual desire disorders would be related to low satisfaction at any age. Nevertheless, most of interventions have usually excluded young people. The main purpose of this study is to explore the prevalence of sexual desire disorders in this population, as well as their association with life and sexual satisfaction, and genital and body appearance sa tisfaction. We hypothesize that people with maladjusted desire will report lower life and sexual satisfaction; women will exceed men in problems with low desire meanwhile men will exceed women in problems with high desire. Method: 1841 participants (61.2% women), with average age of 21.42 years, completed a survey about sexual habits and experiences. Results: 30% of participants have alterations related to low desire, while 40.6% of them reporte problems due to high sexual desire. According to sex, women showed lower sexual desire (34%) compared to men (23%), and men reported higher sexual desire (48%) that women did (36%). Regarding the relation between desire and satisfaction in different area, low sexual desire is associated with all areas negatively and significantly (p 0.01), and high sexual desire with body (p 0.01) and global life (p 0.05). Discussion: According to literature, women show lower sexual desire and men higher sexual desire; both are related to life dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction in other aspects. Thus, preventive strategies and clinic intervention should consider this information.