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Sexual motivation and the duration of partnership

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  June, 2002  by Dietrich Klusmann

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INTRODUCTION

This paper is part of a larger survey study aimed at the description of current sexual behavior in German students (Schmidt, 2000). The tabulation of variables reflecting sexual motivation by the duration of partnership revealed an unexpected association: with increasing duration of partnership, a marked decline in sexual motivation occurred in women but not in men. The aim of this paper is to present this result, analyze it as far as possible with the data at hand, and discuss possible explanations. In order to do so, three sources of knowledge will be considered: (1) results from ...