A PSY 450T Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sociosexual Orientation, Human Sexual Activity, Sexual Attraction
Document Summary
The most important predictor of sex is attitude. Hard to define and measure sex because it is subjective. Cohabitating people have the most amount of sex. Cohabitating people have slightly more sex than those who are married. Younger, easier to leave if not satisfied, children, (why married people have less sex than cohabitating people) Older people have less sex than younger people. The first year of marriage has the most amount of sex than the total amount after. Older people have less time, health issues and loss of novelty (not as exciting) Gay men have the most sex, straight couples and lesbians have the least. Woman have a weaker sex drive than men. The frequency of sex is linked to sex satisfaction more in men. Does sex satisfaction impact relationship satisfaction or vice versa (bidirectional) Sexual satisfaction is linked to similarity (sexual frequency, sexual history, sexual practices) want since they know how they like it (same body)
