Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:1333-1336
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
The cessation of marital intercourse
JN Edwards and A Booth
The authors found that marital coitus had ceased for a definable period
(median=8 weeks) in one-third of a sample of 144 men and 221 women who were
relatively young and had been married an average of 11 years. An analysis
of factors related to the social background and marital relationship of the
respondents indicated that the cessation behavior of men is more highly
predictable than that of women and that antecedents of this behavior differ
markedly between the sexes. The authors suggest that, even among relatively
young couples, marital intercourse is discontinous and problematic.
