Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Premarital Sex vs. Marital Satisfaction

Legkauskas, Visvaldas., Stankeviciene, Dzeralda. (2008). Premarital Sez and Marital Satisfaction of Middle Aged Men and Women: A Study of Married Lithuanian Couples. Springer Science

This article focuses on a study conducted to investigate possible relationships between: current marital satisfaction and age of onset of sexual intercourse, having and experience of premarital intercourse, the number of premarital sexual partners, and having an experience of premarital cohabitation (to live together in an intimate relationship). The results of this study among middle-aged Lithuanian couples indicate that there is no significant relationship between the experience of premarital sexual intercourse and marital satisfaction of men or women. However, men, who have had more premarital partners and cohabitation experience, were less satisfied with their marriages.
For women, starting sexual activity at a younger age and having larger numbers of premarital partners was related to lower marital satisfaction.
Steve Miller

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