Factors Related to Decline in Preferred Frequency of Sexual Intercourse among Young Couples
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 60 (2) , 391-395
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1987.60.2.391
Abstract
In a nonrandom sample of 30 church-affiliated couples, preferred frequency of sexual intercourse declined as a function of age, duration of marriage, and number of children. Husbands indicated a higher preferred frequency than wives, although their preferred frequencies were significantly correlated. Preferred frequencies were not correlated with birth order, socioeconomic status, or education. For wives only, preferred frequency was correlated positively with marital satisfaction and length of premarital acquaintance.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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