scholarly journals An online sensate focus application to treat sexual desire discrepancy in intimate relationships: contrasting case studies

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Laura M. Vowels
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Sensate Focus ◽  
Sexual Desire Discrepancy

Sex in an ideology of love

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torbjörn Bildtgård ◽  
Peter Öberg
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Sexual Norms ◽  
Gerontological Research ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Loving Relationship

Until recently the sex life of older people was more or less invisible in family and gerontological research. This chapter contributes to breaking this silence by focusing on the role and meaning of sex in intimate relationships in later life. Based on biographical case studies, the chapter investigates how sexual norms have changed over the life course of contemporary cohorts of older people and how they have experienced this change. The chapter considers sexual intimacy as part of new intimate relationships established late in life and questions the persistent assumption that older people who date are primarily looking for companionate relationships. It is shown that older people’s ideas about sex are deeply embedded in an ideology of love, where sex tends to be viewed as a natural part of a loving relationship, while sex outside of a loving relationship – also in a loveless marriage – is frowned on.

Feminisation of Ascetic Celibacy in Haridwar

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 26S-41S
Author(s):  
Mariko Hamaya
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
North India ◽  
Sexual Abstinence

Case studies of male–female ascetic couples in Haridwar in North India complicate the widespread knowledge that male Hindu renouncers are supposed to observe celibacy. Based on extended ethnographic work, this article investigates specifically how female ascetics tackle the dominant androcentric discourses and practise celibacy from a female point of view, focussing on their practice of sevā or spiritual service. The article argues that while female ascetics do not object to the androcentric ideology of celibacy, they follow it only partly, switching their focus from sexual abstinence to devotional sevā. Doing this, female ascetics value controlling emotion more than controlling sexual desire. Through the practice of sevā, they aim for fostering an attitude of devotion as a feminised manifestation of their efforts towards reaching spiritual attainment.

scholarly journals Strategies for Mitigating Sexual Desire Discrepancy in Relationships

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 1017-1028
Author(s):  
Laura M. Vowels ◽  
Kristen P. Mark
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Desire Discrepancy

Maintaining sexual desire in intimate relationships: The importance of approach goals.

2008 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 808-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily A. Impett ◽  
Amy Strachman ◽  
Eli J. Finkel ◽  
Shelly L. Gable
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Approach Goals

scholarly journals A Mixed-Methods Inquiry into the Intimate Practices of Partnered Mature Students and Influences on Relationship, Sexual, and School Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-133
Author(s):  
Tricia Marie Van Rhijn ◽  
Sarah H. Murray ◽  
Robert C. Mizzi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Partner Support ◽  
School Satisfaction ◽  
Mature Students ◽  
The Impact

Through the use of mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, the current study explored the impact of postsecondary study on the intimate relationships and school experiences of partnered mature students. Quantitative regression analyses indicated that parental status, family support, partner support, and sexual desire significantly predicted relationship satisfaction, while family support and partner support significantly predicted sexual satisfaction. Age and sexual desire predicted school satisfaction for women only. Through qualitative thematic analysis it was determined that not having enough time, feeling too tired, and being stressed negatively impacted sexual satisfaction, while experiencing personal growth was described as both beneficial and problematic. Some participants reported using sex to aid in their academic success by way of offering a distraction or reducing stress. We discuss possible ways that postsecondary institutions, through their campus programs, can better address the impact school may have on mature students’ intimate relationships.  

Men’s Free Will

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-136
Author(s):  
Leslie Margolin
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sex Therapy ◽  
Heterosexual Men ◽  
Heterosexual Male ◽  
Low Sexual Desire ◽  
Heterosexual Women

“Men’s Free Will” examines how differently sex therapy unfolds when a heterosexual male presents with the problem of low sexual desire—how heterosexual men are often treated more respectfully, more attentively, and more generously than heterosexual women. This chapter shows that for sex therapists, a man’s position in his marital orbit need not adapt to his wife’s needs. She must adapt to his. Through examination of contemporary case studies, the chapter examines how heterosexual men with low sexual desire not only present as more sexually intransigent than heterosexual women, but that their intransigence is more likely to be accepted by their spouse and therapist.

Understanding the phenomenon of sexual desire discrepancy in couples

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan E. Sutherland ◽  
Uzma S. Rehman ◽  
Erin E. Fallis ◽  
Jackson A. Goodnight
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Sexual Desire Discrepancy

An Integrative Model for Treatment of Sexual Desire Disorders

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark F. Schwartz ◽  
Stephen Southern
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Couple Therapy ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Integrative Treatment ◽  
Attachment Disorders ◽  
Relationship Conflicts ◽  
Sensate Focus ◽  
Masters And Johnson ◽  
Model Fits

An integrative model for treating sexual desire disorders was developed from the original work of Masters and Johnson Institute. Sensate focus exercises and psychoeducation were combined with couple therapy for relationship conflicts and individual therapies for issues with trauma and attachment disorders. The resulting model fits trends in systemic and integrative treatment.

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