Abstract
Abstract Based on conjoint interviews with 16 couples expecting their first child, this paper examines the reasons used by husbands and wives to explain changes in sexual behavior during pregnancy. A qualitative analysis of the interview transcripts resulted in the identification of four types of explanations: biographical/sociocultural excuses (40% of the reasons given by husbands and wives), appeals to priorities (28%), physiological/anatomical excuses (22%), and appeals to self‐fulfillment (10%). This distribution conflicts with previous research which has emphasized physiological/anatomical reasons. This is also the first study to compare husbands' and wives' reasons for changes in prenatal sexuality; the wives generally volunteered more reasons than the husbands. The principal conceptual tool used in the analysis is the symbolic interactionist contention that reasons or motives are basically “aligning actions” which orient people toward each other and which integrate deviant conduct with the existing...
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