Sociological Investigation into Women's Sexual Dissatisfaction Mechanism
10 Pages Posted: 19 Aug 2012
Date Written: August 19, 2012
Abstract
In this paper, dissatisfied couple's sexual relations through women's viewpoint is investigated. Many researches have been conducted abroad on marital sexual dissatisfaction but there is absolute vacuum in this regard due to the sensitivity of research field and lack of information in Iran. There are two basic approaches to sexual dissatisfaction: the first one knows sexual dissatisfaction as the cause for marital dissatisfaction; the second asserts marital dissatisfaction leads to sexual dissatisfaction, this study aims at understanding the cause and mechanism of woman's sexual dissatisfaction and it's relation with marital dissatisfaction. This research has organized by the use of social constructionism approach and grounded theory for holistic and deep understanding of phenomenon. Theoretical sampling, analytic induction and theoretical saturation are the guidelines of participants' selection. Findings drawn from the interviews with 20 severely sexually dissatisfied woman indicate a discrepancy between men's attitude to sexual relationships and women's. This difference builds a sense of sexual inequality in women. This is accompanied by great importance of sexual gratification compared to past, or sexualization of marital relationship and result women's sexual dissatisfaction. Men's sexual non-commitment to exclusive sexual relationship and failure due to a kind of men's denial of success of sexual relationship intensifies the satisfaction. In the first place, this failure leads to a sort of emotional dilemma and sublimation of emotional-sexual need into sheer sexual need and in the second to adaptation to present conditions and finally to a sense of loneliness. By and large at first glance marital dissatisfaction seems to be the cause for sexual dissatisfaction then this relation becomes reciprocal.
Keywords: emotional dilemma, certificatory marriage, men's denial emotional gratification, sexual dissatisfaction, sexual relationship
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