The associations of intimacy and sexuality in daily life: Temporal dynamics and gender effects within romantic relationships.

ABSTRACT: The experience of emotional intimacy is assumed to play a particularly large role in maintaining sexual desire and partnered sexual activity in romantic relationships of longer duration. It is unclear whether the effect of intimacy on sexual contact between partners is direct or indirect, via its impact on sexual desire. Baumeister and Bratslavsky suggested that a certain increment in emotional intimacy causes a greater increment in sexual desire in men than in women. In the present study, we aimed to test the mediating role of sexual desire between perceived intimacy and sexual partner interaction and the gender effect as hypothesized by Baumeister and Bratslavsky. Experience sampling methodology in the participant's natural environment was used. At 10 quasi-random moments per day, during

SUBMITTER: van Lankveld J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5987853 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature