Sex in Long-Term Relationships: A Systemic Approach to Sexual Desire Problems
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Vol. 31 (3) , 241-246
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1015296718952
Abstract
Most concepts of sexual desire implicitly refer to early phases of attraction and youthful living systems. For an alternative conceptual approach of decreasing sexual desire in long-term relationships, three points are addressed which influence the definition and theorizing on decreasing sexual interest: (1) passive vs. active negation of desire; (2) desire as part of sexual function vs. desire as passion in its own right; and (3) desire as individual trait vs. emergent function of structural coupling of the partners.Keywords
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