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Abstract
When studying sexual desire during pregnancy, most research focuses on the pregnant woman’s sexual desire and almost never takes into account her sexual partner. The novelty of this study is that sexual desire during pregnancy is studied from the point of view of the pregnant woman and from that of her male partner. The goal of this study is to see how sexual desire behaves during pregnancy in both partners. For this, a descriptive, longitudinal, and multistage study was designed. Methodologically, in the first stage, the different study variables were described through a single-variate analysis. In the second stage, one variable was related to others by means of a bivariate analysis. Finally, in the third stage, a multivariate analysis was done, composed of binary logistic regression models and latent growth curves. The results confirm that pregnancy influences the sexual desire of both partners, and that sexual desire behaves differently in women than in men during pregnancy. Men have higher levels of sexual desire throughout pregnancy as compared to women. The first trimester of pregnancy is the period when women have less sexual desire.
Highlights
The main authors who work on sexual desire established the difficulty of clearly defining erotic desire [1,2]
In 1966, Masters and Johnson, in their work on human sexual response, developed the first scientific study on the phenomena observed in the organism in response to sexual stimulus and, in it, they distinguished four successive stages, both in the male sexual response and in the female sexual response: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution [6]; at no time did they refer to desire
Several recent studies claimed that sexual desire in women decreases in the first trimester of pregnancy, remains the same in the second, and further decreases in the third [32,33,34]
Summary
The main authors who work on sexual desire established the difficulty of clearly defining erotic desire [1,2]. In 1966, Masters and Johnson, in their work on human sexual response, developed the first scientific study on the phenomena observed in the organism in response to sexual stimulus and, in it, they distinguished four successive stages, both in the male sexual response and in the female sexual response: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution [6]; at no time did they refer to desire It was Lief who, in 1977, pointed to sexual desire as a different dimension from arousal and orgasm [7] and, later in 1979, Kaplan introduced sexual desire into his three-phase model of sexual response formed by the phases of desire, arousal, and orgasm [8]. In the third stage, orgasm occurs, during which muscle contractions take place and a feeling of pleasure, concentrated in the genital region and spreading throughout the body, occurs both in men and women [9]
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