To keep the flame alive within the couple, it is essential to maintain sexual satisfaction, according to the results of a study published in the Journal of Sex Research. Tenderness, complicity, preliminaries and experiments would keep the desire and pleasure awake.
At the request of the women’s magazine Elle and Microsoft, researchers at Chapman University (California) conducted a survey with 38,747 participants to understand how the sexual satisfaction was evolving in the couple and what helped keep the flame. The volunteers answered questionnaires after six months of relationship and during the duration of the study to establish the evolution of their sexual well-being in the couple.
After six months, sexual dissatisfaction sets in
The researchers observed that after six months, thesexual dissatisfaction settles in the couple.
Indeed, the results of the survey showed that only 43% of men and 55% of women are still sexually satisfied. 16% of men and 18% of women said they were moderately and 41% of men and 27% of women said they were dissatisfied.
The majority of men (59%) and women (42%) said they felt less wanted by their partner.
While paradoxically, the majority of these couples still feel desire for the partner. The solution ? Take care to express it to keep the flame in the couple?
The keys to maintaining sexual satisfaction in the couple
Sexually satisfied couples have never lost affection and complicity. The majority of them say that their sex is always either passionate or tender and playful. For the majority of them, making love with their partner was an enjoyable game that lasted at least 30 minutes and brought them personal sexual pleasure. Indeed, sexually satisfied couples do not neglect daily tenderness, foreplay, oral sex and experiments (new positions, fantasies…). Their sex life is a moment of complicity, games and personal satisfaction.
“We will therefore remember that around 3 couples manage to keep the flame alive, but that these couples have made a conscious effort to escape the routine of couples and sex”, concludes Professor David Frederick, professor of psychology and lead author of the study.
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