The Incidence and Frequency of Marital Sex in a National Sample

Call, Vaughn R. A.; Sprecher, Susan; Schwartz, Pepper

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“…As people increase their years worked, they are more likely to experience promotions, increased wages and more vacation time, which may contribute to increased satisfaction with their employment. Similarly, when considering sex life, in the general population, aging has been associated with a decreasing desire for and frequency of sex, 48 which also negatively influences satisfaction with sex life. 49 Furthermore, the notion of timing of events in the Life Span Development theory refers to the actual occurrence of an event relative to its expected occurrence.…”

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“…The same position is taken by Call et al (1995). They affirm that the most recurrent explanations for sexual activity diminishing with age refer to biological factors: "This explanation includes declines in male motivation and physical ability, declines in women's testosterone levels, and increases in illness".…”

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“…Therefore, in order to correctly measure the effect of age on sexuality, one has to control for duration of marriage. Several researchers report that the frequency of intercourse episodes declines with marital duration, net of the age effect (Brewis and Meyer 2004;Leridon 1996;Call et al 1995;Greenblat 1983). Some authors hypothesise that the frequency of marital sex decreases because the satisfaction with marital sex declines with marital duration (Liu 2003).…”

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“…Some authors hypothesise that the frequency of marital sex decreases because the satisfaction with marital sex declines with marital duration (Liu 2003). Call et al (1995) refer to the concept of "habituation", i.e., there is a decrease in interest because of the increased accessibility to a sexual partner and the predictability in sexual behaviour with that partner over time.…”

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Does Sex Matter? Ageing and Ability to Conceive

Rizzi

Rosina

2008

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Recently there has been increasing interest in the estimation of age-specific fecundability as a result of the progressive postponement of age at family formation in Western countries. It must be noted, however, that the possible negative effects of the postponement could act not only on the physiological component of the ability to conceive but also on the behavioural component (i.e., sexual activity). The main aim of our study was to verify if, the desire to have a child being equal, the coital frequency decreases in one's 30s as compared to the 20s. For our analysis we used the data from the Multinational Study in Daily Fecundability (MSDF), which has produced a very rich database with behavioural and physiological information prospectively collected on every cycle. We found empirical evidence that the desire to have a child only partially compensates for the decline of coital frequency with age.

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“…For instance, marital satisfaction has been shown to change with marital duration, although the shape of this association remains a point of disagreement among scholars (e.g., Glenn 1990Glenn , 1998Johnson, Amoloza, and Booth 1992;Johnson, White, Edwards, and Booth 1986;Vaillant and Vaillant 1993;VanLaningham, Johnson, and Amato 2001;Weishaus and Field 1988). Similarly, researchers have examined patterns of sexual frequency (e.g., Blumstein and Schwartz 1983;Call, Sprecher, and Schwartz 1995;Jasso 1985;Liu 2000) and sexual quality (Liu 2003) by marital duration. However, some demographers, sociologists and other family scholars examine different-sex marital duration as an outcome and estimate the probability that marriages will last particular lengths of time as a function of various characteristics (Copen et al 2012).…”

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Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Different-Sex Marriages

Hoy¹,

London²

2017

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Recent research has focused on the once-married and associations between various aspects of same-sex sexuality (i.e., desire/attraction, behavior and identity) and divorce from a different-sex spouse. In this paper, we theorize that same-sex sexuality could be associated with either shorter or longer marital duration, and we use data from the 2011-2013 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to examine the associations between three aspects of same-sex sexuality and marital duration among those who married and divorced once (N=617). Among the once-married/divorced, same-sex sexuality substantially reduces marital duration by approximately 18-24 months, on average, net of other variables. Supplemental analyses indicate that these associations do not differ by sex/gender but do differ in nuanced ways for individuals who are bisexually attracted (identified) compared to those who report, respectively, same-sex only or different-sex only attraction (heterosexual, bisexual and lesbian/gay identity). Between-group differences in age at marriage exert a substantial influence on the associations between same-sex sexuality and marital duration documented in the supplemental analyses of bisexuality. We discuss our findings in relation to the extant literature, the limitations of available data, and directions for future research.

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The Incidence and Frequency of Marital Sex in a National Sample

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Same-Sex Sexuality and the Duration of First Different-Sex Marriages

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