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Menstruation and Marital Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Naomi M. Morris  and
J. Richard Udry
Naomi M. Morris
Affiliation:
School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago
J. Richard Udry
Affiliation:
Carolina Population Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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Summary

Using daily report data from 85 husbands and wives for about 100 days each, this paper explores differences in sexual behaviour between menstrual and non-menstrual days. Intercourse and orgasm are reduced during menstruation, in association with impressively less female desire for intercourse during menstruation. In the highly educated group studied, the women respond to a resultant potential increase in male sexual frustration by providing the husbands an increase in non-coital orgasm on menstrual days.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 173 - 181
Copyright
Copyright © 1983, Cambridge University Press

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