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Men initiate sex more than three times as often as women do in a long-term, heterosexual relationship. However, previous research shows that sex happens far more often whenever the woman takes the initiative, suggesting that it is the woman who thus sets the limits to a greater extent than men do.
Psychologists at NTNU have investigated what other factors play a role for frequency of intercourse in couples in long-term relationships.
Two factors are decisive in how often women take the initiative at all.
Attitudes to casual sex
[...]Got to have passion[...]The study included 92 couples aged 19 to 30. Relationships varied in length from one month to nine years, with an average of just under two years. The couples had sex two to three times a week on average.
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/nuos-ptl051319.php
(Score: 5, Informative) by bradley13 on Friday May 24 2019, @10:43AM (6 children)
On average, men want sex more often than women do. News at 11. This will come as a surprise to essentially no one, guy or girl, who has ever been in a long-term heterosexual relationship. BTW, here's a link to the actual study [apa.org] (paywall).
Sex is more likely to happen if the woman initiates, than if the man does? That's "duh". The typical 20-something-year-old guy is up for sex almost any time. So whenever his partner is interested enough to initiate, guess what?
There's a lot of weirdness in the study. They want to talk about "long-term" relationships, but the average length of the relationships they studied was 21 months, and some were as new as one month. Moreover, they only studied university students: no one in their study was over the age of 30. So the study was neither about long-term relationships, nor was it representative of the population at large.
But it got them a publication, so everything's good.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday May 24 2019, @12:52PM (1 child)
Confirmation is always nice for things long guessed but not known for certain.
But yes, no one over the age of 30 is a problem with the study.
> But it got them a publication, so everything's good.
The part that I find most annoying is the hugely uneven publication standards in science. Peer review is pretty hit and miss. They're flooded with mediocre papers to review thanks to Publish or Perish. Reviewers take mental shortcuts. Almost seems like they just count the number of lines devoted to formulas and proofs, all too much like trying to measure software engineering productivity by counting lines of code. Just a few of the many problems in academic publishing.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday May 25 2019, @06:15AM
Cherry-pick the data to fit and support the theory?
Speaking of theories, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs7r5xfucPs [youtube.com]
(Score: 3, Informative) by Freeman on Friday May 24 2019, @02:07PM
Also, 92 couples seems like a pretty small study.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Alfred on Friday May 24 2019, @02:13PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 24 2019, @02:33PM
Remember the throw-away course to fulfill humanities requirement? All you do is answer a few surveys and you get an A (unless you are an absolute numbnut).
Psych depts use the course to manufacture these "researches".
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday May 24 2019, @07:51PM
Sure ... but how much of that is driven by passion, and how much of it is just ... axiomatic?