Sexual Behaviors and Pleasure in Couples with Hypoactive Sexual Desire

Trudel, Gilles; Aubin, Sylvie; Matte, Benoit

doi:10.1080/01614576.1995.11074153

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“…Not surprisingly, sexual desire is also associated with frequency of sexual activity in romantic relationships (Regan & Atkins, 2006; Trudel, Aubin, & Matte, 1995). In a nationally representative sample of adults aged 18–49 years in Norway, people who reported higher levels of desire also reported greater sexual frequency (Hamilton, Kulseng, Traeen, & Lundin Kvalem, 2001).…”

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Broadening your horizons: Self-expanding activities promote desire and satisfaction in established romantic relationships.

Muise¹,

Harasymchuk²,

Day³

et al. 2019

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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In the early stages of romantic relationships, sexual desire is often intense, but over time, as partners get to know each other, desire tends to decline. Low sexual desire has negative implications for relationship satisfaction and maintenance. Self-expansion theory suggests that engaging in novel activities with a long-term romantic partner can reignite feelings of passion from the early stages of a relationship. Across 3 studies using dyadic, daily experience, longitudinal, and experimental methods, we find evidence for our central prediction that engaging in self-expanding activities with a partner is associated with higher sexual desire. In turn, we found that higher desire fueled by self-expansion is associated with greater relationship satisfaction. Self-expansion, through sexual desire, is also associated with an increased likelihood that couples will engage in sex, and when they do engage in sex, they feel more satisfied with their sexual experiences. We also demonstrate that the benefits of self-expansion for relationship satisfaction are sustained over time, and that the effects cannot be attributed solely to increases in positive affect, time spent interacting with the partner or closeness during the activity. Implications for selfexpansion theory and sexual desire maintenance in relationships are discussed.

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Section: The Crucial Role Of Sexual Desire In Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Broadening your horizons: Self-expanding activities promote desire and satisfaction in established romantic relationships.

Muise¹,

Harasymchuk²,

Day³

et al. 2019

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

149

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“…women has been tied to their emotional well-being, psychological distress (Apt, Hurlbert, Pierce, & White, 1996), and marital adjustment (Trudel et al, 1993). Depression and anxiety (Donahey & Carroll, 1993;McVey, 1997;Schreiner-Engel & Schiavi, 1986), negative emotions and anger (Kaplan, 1979(Kaplan, , 1995, marital and sexual satisfaction (Hurlbert, 1993;Hurlbert & Apt, 1994a;Hurlbert, White, Powell, & Apt, 1993), locus of control and sexual compatibility (Hurlbert, Apt, & Rombough, 1996;Price & Buss, 1995), limited sexual behavior repertoire and low sexual pleasure in partner-related sexual activities (Hurlbert, 1993;Trudel, Aubin, & Matte, 1995), and low orgasm consistency and infrequent sexual fantasy (Hurlbert, Apt, & Hurlbert, 1995) are among the many numerous psychosocial variables that have been linked to hypoactive sexual desire in women.…”

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Sexual Compatibility and the Sexual Desire-Motivation Relation in Females with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

Hurlbert

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Hurlbert³

et al. 2000

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Fifty-four female participants with hypoactive sexual desire disorder supplied daily reports of their sexual desire and motivation. The relation between desire and motivation remained statistically significant when controlling for sexual compatibility, sexual stress, sexual fantasy, and marital and sexual satisfaction. Findings suggest that (a) women higher in sexual compatibility experience greater sexual motivation regardless of their marital and sexual satisfaction, their sexual desire intensity, and depressive symptomatology; and (b) the relation between sexual compatibility and sexual desire is mediated by the propensity of those women high in sexual compatibility to have greater marital and sexual satisfaction. Within-subject analyses that controlled for autocorrelation and linear trends in the time series revealed that 40% of the women experienced significantly higher sexual motivation on greater sexual desire days. A discussion of these findings and evidence for the addition of sexual motivation as a distinct phase in the human sexual response cycle are explored.

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Attentional and Affective Processing of Sexual Stimuli in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

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Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is the most common sexual problem in women. From an incentive motivation perspective, HSDD may be the result of a weak association between sexual stimuli and rewarding experiences. As a consequence, these stimuli may either lose or fail to acquire a positive meaning, resulting in a limited number of incentives that have the capacity to elicit a sexual response. According to current information processing models of sexual arousal, sexual stimuli automatically activate meanings and if these are not predominantly positive, processes relevant to the activation of sexual arousal and desire may be interrupted. Premenopausal U.S. and Dutch women with acquired HSDD (n = 42) and a control group of sexually functional women (n = 42) completed a single target Implicit Association Task and a Picture Association Task assessing automatic affective associations with sexual stimuli and a dot detection task measuring attentional capture by sexual stimuli. Results showed that women with acquired HSDD displayed less positive (but not more negative) automatic associations with sexual stimuli than sexually functional women. The same pattern was found for self-reported affective sex-related associations. Participants were slower to detect targets in the dot detection task that replaced sexual images, irrespective of sexual function status. As such, the findings point to the relevance of affective processing of sexual stimuli in women with HSDD, and imply that the treatment of HSDD might benefit from a stronger emphasis on the strengthening of the association between sexual stimuli and positive meaning and sexual reward.

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Sexual Behaviors and Pleasure in Couples with Hypoactive Sexual Desire

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

Broadening your horizons: Self-expanding activities promote desire and satisfaction in established romantic relationships.

Broadening your horizons: Self-expanding activities promote desire and satisfaction in established romantic relationships.

Sexual Compatibility and the Sexual Desire-Motivation Relation in Females with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

Attentional and Affective Processing of Sexual Stimuli in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder

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