Everything Totally Explained


Ask & we'll explain, totally!
Sexless marriage
Totally Explained


  NEW! All the latest news in the worlds of computer gaming, entertainment, the environment,  
finance, health, politics, science, stocks & shares, technology and much, much, more.  


    View this entry using RSS
   

Everything about Sexless Marriage totally explained

A sexless marriage is a marriage in which little or no sex occurs between the two partners. The US National Health and Social Life Survey in 1994 (Laumann et al. 1994) found that 2 percent of the married respondents reported no sexual intimacy in the past year. The definition of a nonsexual marriage is often broadened to include those where sexual intimacy occurs less than ten times per year, in which case 20 percent of the couples in the NHSLS would be in the category.

Causes

Sexless marriages generally develop over time and are gradual. Love and intimacy generally existed in a relationship but sex starts to become increasingly infrequent. The following are possible causes:
  • Marriage solely done for legal purposes, tax benefits or acquiring resident status (for example, in USA a spouse is entitled to Green Card if married to an American citizen or a permanent resident)
  • Different work schedules/busy lives, making sex less of a priority than other events.
  • Adultery can cause the partner having the affair to slow or stop sex with their partner.
  • Sexual addiction or Pornography Addictions can cause the addicted partner to not have sex with their regular partner.
  • Sexual aversion or 'a low level of sexual desire' including a lack of sexual vitality due to age, past trauma, partners' incompatible sexual orientation or, simply, one of the spouses losing sexual desire towards his or her companion.
  • Sexual dysfunction or difficulty during any stage of the sexual act, including severe vaginismus or erectile dysfunction
  • Asexuality
  • Mutually agreed sexless marriages, due to religious principles, avoidance of sexually transmitted diseases, a platonic basis for the relationship or avoiding conception.
  • Illness of one or both partners that affects physical or psychological sexuality.
  • Power imbalance. One partner refuses to have sex with their spouse for personal reasons.
  • Prevent pregnancies.
  • Combinations of the above. Sexual desire, for example, can be closely tied to sexual difficulties.
Further Information

Get more info on 'Sexless Marriage'.


External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

    <a href="http://sexless_marriage.totallyexplained.com">Sexless marriage Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
   As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.



Copyright © 2007-8 totallyexplained.com | Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License | Site Map
This article contains text from the Wikipedia article Sexless marriage (History) and is released under the GFDL | RSS Version