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Mating in Captivity: The Influence of Social Location on Sexual Satisfaction through Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Elizabeth E McElroy, Samuel L Perry, Joshua B Grubbs

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Elizabeth E McElroyUniversity of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3540-5695
Samuel L PerryUniversity of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6398-636X
Joshua B GrubbsBowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.

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Abstract

The recent global pandemic provides a natural experiment "intervention" to examine how differing baseline social dynamics such as gender, education, and politics shaped diverging patterns of well-being during rapidly shifting societal conditions. Using married adults from a nationally representative panel study in the United States from August 2019 to August 2021, discontinuous growth curves reveal a large drop in average married sexual satisfaction in both quality and frequency directly following the pandemic onset. Moreover, sexual satisfaction remained largely suppressed for the subsequent 18 months, apart from a brief "optimism blip" in the fall of 2020. Race, age, income, employment, parenthood, education, and political affiliation all appear as meaningful predictors, but these differ across various phases of the pandemic and by gender. These results reveal evidence of lingering changes in subjective sexual well-being as well as patterns of catastrophe risk and resilience moderated by social location factors.

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COVID-19genderinequalitynatural experimentsexual satisfaction

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PMCPMC10247694

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