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Marital Problems and Sexual Dysfunction: How are they Related?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Rust ,
Susan Golombok  and
John Collier
John Rust*
Affiliation:
Department of Child Envelopment and Educational Psychology, University of London Institute of Education
Susan Golombok
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, City University
John Collier
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sheffield
*
∗25 Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AA
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Abstract

In a study of 28 attenders of a sexual and marital clinic, the relationship between marital distress and both general and specific sexual dysfunctions was investigated. It was found that for men there was a much closer relationship between sexual and marital problems than for women. In particular, it was noted that the specific male sexual dysfunctions of impotence and premature ejaculation played a much larger part in marital discord than did the female dysfunctions of anorgasmia and vaginismus.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 5 , May 1988 , pp. 629 - 631
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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