The relationship of sexual satisfaction to coital involvement: The concept of technical virginity revisited

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Through time sex has come to have increasing societal importance, but very few investigators have sought to determine if the participants have gained any degree of pleasure from their sexual involvements. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the perceived psychological and physiological sexual satisfaction of coitally active and coitally inactive females as it relates to their past sexual behaviors, current sexual concerns, and the desired changes, if any, in their sexual lives. A survey research design was employed which utilized the responses of 202 never‐married undergraduate female students from a state university. This sample was dichotomized into two groups, those females who had experienced sexual intercourse (coitally active, n = 123, 61 percent) and those who had not experienced sexual intercourse (coitally inactive, n = 79, 39 percent). Among the sexually experienced females, 75 percent were psychologically satisfied and 77 percent were physiologically satisfied with their sex lives; whereas, among those who had not experienced coitus, only 46 percent reported psychological satisfaction and 47 percent reported physiological satisfaction with their sex lives. The factors influencing sexual satisfaction include such variables as foreplay, petting, masturbatory, and orgasmic experiences as well as sexual concerns and desire for changes in their sex lives.

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