Sexual compatibility and the sexual desire-motivation relation in females with hypoactive sexual desire disorder.

Fifty-four female participants with hypoactive sexual desire disorder supplied daily reports of their sexual desire and motivation. The relation between desire and motivation remained statistically significant when controlling for sexual compatibility, sexual stress, sexual fantasy, and marital and sexual satisfaction. Findings suggest that (a) women higher in sexual compatibility experience greater sexual motivation regardless of their marital and sexual satisfaction, their sexual desire intensity, and depressive symptomatology; and (b) the relation between sexual compatibility and sexual desire is mediated by the propensity of those women high in sexual compatibility to have greater marital and sexual satisfaction.

Female sexual desire, response, and behavior.

This study explores sexual desire, response, and behavior in satisfied versus dissatisfied marriages as perceived by women, while controlling for female sexual satisfaction. Seventy-eight married couples participated in a structured interview and a series of open-ended interviews designed to gather behavioral self-report sexual data. The study had three objectives.

Sexual narcissism: a validation study.

Sexual narcissism, an egocentric pattern of sexual behavior, has recently been described in the literature and has been discovered to be associated with cluster B type personality disorders. Although the research seems to have validated sexual narcissism as a characteristic of borderline and histrionic personality disorders, it is yet to be tested with narcissistic personalities. In an effort to further explore this relationship as well as the validity of sexual narcissism, this study systematically compared a sample (ages 24-33 years) of males with narcissistic personality disorder with an adequately matched sample of males without personality disorders.