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  • Sexual fantasies, subjective satisfaction and quality of sexual life in patients of sexual dysfunction: A comparative study

  • N. Ohri, A. Dubey, G. Vankar, P. Rathi, A. Gill
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 64 / Issue S1 / April 2021
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    13 August 2021, p. S169
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  • Introduction

    Exploring the ways in which sexual fantasies may affect sexual experience and satisfaction is of relavence in the clinical setting involving sexual dysfuntion.

    Objectives

    To observe how the sexual fantasy scores differ in their relationship with sexual satisfaction, experience and quality between sexual dysfunction cases and normal controls.

    Methods

    Scales included: Wilson’s sex fantasy questionnaire (WSFQ), Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX), Sexual Quality of life Questionnaire (SQoL), and a subjective sexual satisfaction meter. Differences in resposes of both groups on WSFQ (item-wise and domain-wise) were analysed using T-tests. Two-way ANOVA was applied to see how other scales affected sexual fantasy.

    Results

    Cases scored significantly higher on ASEX scale, and low on satisfaction, SQoL and WSFQ

    Cases N=1OOControls N=100t-test
    Satisfaction Mean(sd)4.27(1.85)7.82(1.31)t=3.052;df=198,p=0.0026
    Asex17.52(4.73)8.28(1.34)t=15.24;df=198,p<0.0001
    SQoL29.41(12.12)49.5(6.67)t=14.52;df=198,p<0.0001
    WSFQ26.80(17.61)30.59(15.32)t=1.62,df=98,p=0.106

    Majority of WSFQ responses, both in cases and controls, fell in the intimate and impersonal domains. Sexual fantasy scores and sexual satisfaction had a strong positive and significant correlation in controls but no linear correlation in the case-subjects. sexual fantasy scores contributed to 5.7% of difference in the scores of SQoL between groups. Major variance in scores of satisfaction in our subjects depended on presence or absence of sexual dysfunction(46.5%)but sexual fantasies also contributed to 8.8% of the variance.

    Conclusions

    The study showed that fantasies contribute to positive sexual outcomes only in absence of sexual dysfunction. ANOVAanalysis revealed that in case-subjects sexual satisfaction briefly increases initially with increase in fantasy scores but starts to decline as fantasies increase.

    Disclosure

    No significant relationships.

  • Roving Eyes: Predictors of Crushes in Ongoing Romantic Relationships and Implications for Relationship Quality

  • Charlene F. Belu, Lucia F. O'Sullivan
  • Journal:
    Journal of Relationships Research / Volume 10 / 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2019, e2
    Print publication:
    2019

  • Potential alternative partners can threaten the stability of established relationships, yet a romantic or sexual attraction to someone with whom you are not currently involved (i.e., a ‘crush’) appears common for those in relationships (Mullinax, Barnhart, Mark, & Herbenick, 2016). This study assessed prevalence of such crushes, individual and relationship predictors, and links to infidelity. Adults (N = 247, aged 25–45, 43.3% women) in romantic relationships completed surveys assessing individual characteristics (attention to alternatives, sociosexual orientation, attachment avoidance), relationship quality (satisfaction, commitment, intimacy), and infidelity. The degree of attention to alternatives predicted whether one had a crush on another while in a romantic relationship. Crushes were fairly common and seemed to have had few negative implications for those in established relationships. These findings will be of use to therapists addressing couples’ attraction to others.