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Female Sexual Desire, Response, and Behavior

David Farley Hurlbert

Darnall Army Community Hospital

Carol Apt

Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation

This study explores sexual desire, response, and behavior in satisfied versus dissatisfied marriages as perceived by women, while controlling for female sexual satisfaction. Seventy-eight married couples participated in a structured interview and a series of open-ended interviews designed to gather behavioral self-report sexual data. The study had three objectives. First, the association between sexual desire and frequency of sex for both husbands and wives was examined. Second, a typology for female sexual response was developed based on the wives' self-report description of their sexual activities. Five types of sexual responses were identified in these sexual activities through cluster analysis; there were significant differences in how the wives responded to sex between groups. Third, sexual behaviors experienced during the reported sexual activities were assessed in open-ended interviews. Significant differences were found between the groups of marriages in sexual activities. These differences in sexual behavior with women in satisfied and dissatisfied marriages are explored.

Behavior Modification, Vol. 18, No. 4, 488-504 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/01454455940184006
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