Sexuality and Physical Contact in National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project Wave 2
Sexuality and Physical Contact in National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project Wave 2
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/gbu072
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发表时间：
2014-11-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Waite, Linda J.
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作者：
Galinsky, Adena M.;McClintock, Martha K.;Waite, Linda J.
导言。国家社会生活、健康和老龄化项目(NSHAP)的第二波包括对性兴趣和行为的新衡量，以及对性经历背景和身体接触的频率和吸引力的新衡量。这是第一次在具有全国代表性的样本中测量这些结构。我们描述了新的测量方法，并比较了每种方法在性别和年龄组中的分布，在某些情况下还根据伙伴关系状态进行了比较。在男性和女性中，性倾向的两个组成部分都随着年龄的增长而减少：发现一个不知名的人具有性吸引力的频率和对伴侣的性提议的接受度。相比之下，伴侣身份、性别和年龄对让自己对他人有吸引力的倾向更为复杂：有伴侣的女性和没有伴侣的男性做出的努力最多，而更努力的性别的努力随着年龄的增长而减少。男性和女性都认为非性身体接触有吸引力，但性身体接触对男性比女性更有吸引力。最后，五分之二的男性和女性对伴侣的关爱行为频率表示不满，这些行为让后来的性行为变得愉快，五分之一的女性和四分之一的男性在过去一年中有过阴道性行为，他们对前戏的数量表示不满。这些数据提供了更准确和丰富地描述老年性动机的机会，并检验性体验的背景和身体亲密的非性方面如何与性行为、享受和问题相关。
Introduction. Wave 2 of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) includes new measures of sexual interest and behavior, as well as new measures of the context of sexual experience and the frequency and appeal of physical contact. This is the first time many of these constructs have been measured in a nationally representative sample.Method. We describe the new measures and compare the distributions of each across gender and age groups, in some cases by partnership status.Results. Two components of sexuality decrease with age among both men and women: frequency of finding an unknown person sexually attractive and receptivity to a partner's sexual overtures. In contrast, the inclination to make one's self sexually attractive to others was a more complicated function of partner status, gender, and age: partnered women and unpartnered men made the most effort, with the more effortful gender's effort decreasing with age. Both men and women find nonsexual physical contact appealing but sexual physical contact is more appealing to men than women. Finally, two fifths of men and women report dissatisfaction with their partner's frequency of caring behaviors that make later sexual interactions pleasurable, and a fifth of women and a quarter of men who had vaginal sex in the past year report dissatisfaction with amount of foreplay.Discussion. These data offer the opportunity to characterize sexual motivation in older adulthood more precisely and richly and to examine how the context of sexual experience and the nonsexual aspects of physical intimacy correlate with sexual behavior, enjoyment, and problems.