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Sex in Long-Term Relationships: A Systemic Approach to Sexual Desire Problems

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Most concepts of sexual desire implicitly refer to early phases of attraction and youthful living systems. For an alternative conceptual approach of decreasing sexual desire in long-term relationships, three points are addressed which influence the definition and theorizing on decreasing sexual interest: (1) passive vs. active negation of desire; (2) desire as part of sexual function vs. desire as passion in its own right; and (3) desire as individual trait vs. emergent function of structural coupling of the partners.

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Clement, U. Sex in Long-Term Relationships: A Systemic Approach to Sexual Desire Problems. Arch Sex Behav 31, 241–246 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015296718952

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