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Is a high sex drive ruining your relationship? Asks Tracey Cox

A friend once told me that a relationship is like a Venn diagram. There’s a large amount of shared space and common elements, formed from two separate figures. In other words, you and your partner can find common ground, but you’re not one person. While sex is often a shared aspect of a romantic relationship, one’s “ sex drive” or individual desire to having sex , isn’t necessarily shared between partners. But what does it mean if one partner has a higher sex drive?

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Recent years have seen an increasing number of studies on relationship extradyadic behaviors Pinto and Arantes, ; Pazhoohi et al. However, much is still to learn about the impact of these extradyadic behaviors on subsequent relationships that an individual may have. Our main goal was to study the association between past extradyadic behaviors — inflicted and suffered — and current relationship quality, sexual desire and attractiveness.

For that, participants females and males were recruited through personal and institutional e-mails, online social networks e. For those currently involved in a relationship, results suggested that extradyadic behaviors both suffered or inflicted are linked with current low relationship quality and high sexual desire in the present. In addition, individuals who perceived themselves as being more attractive tended to have a higher sexual desire and higher relationship quality. Overall, men reported higher levels of extradyadic behaviors and sexual desire, gave more importance to physical attractiveness, and perceived their current relationship as having less quality than women.

These results add to the literature by focusing on different variables that play an important role in romantic relationships, and have important implications. Studies have shown that these negative emotions can be found in both married and unmarried couples experiencing extradyadic behaviors Mapfumo, ; Fincham and May, ; Shrout and Weigel,