ArticleArchives of sexual behavior2022
Gender Inequities in Household Labor Predict Lower Sexual Desire in Women Partnered with Men.
Article in Archives of sexual behavior, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- How Feminist Heterosexual Men Navigate Their Sexual Desire While Following Feminist Principles.Archives of sexual behavior · 2024Article
- Association between internet use and depression among the middle-aged and elderly adults with multimorbidity in China: do gender differences exist?Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Economic distress and perceptions of sexual intimacy in remarriage.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Low sexual desire in women is usually studied as a problem, one that is located within women. However, other possibilities exist, including known gender inequities related to heteronormative gender roles. In this study, we provide the first test of the theory that heteronormativity is related to low sexual desire in women partnered with men, focusing specifically on inequities in the division of household labor. In two studies with women who were partnered with men and had children (Study 1, N = 677; Study 2, N = 396), performing a large proportion of household labor was associated with significantly lower sexual desire for a partner. Together, the results suggest that this association was mediated by both perceiving the partner as a dependent and perceiving the division of labor as unfair. These results support the heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men, and show that gender inequities are important, though understudied, contributors to low desire in women partnered with men.
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