Sexual pleasure matters (especially for women) - data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD)
Sexual pleasure matters (especially for women) - data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD)
Introduction: sexual pleasure has been a neglected issue in sexual health policies. Emerging trends in public health, however, emphasize the importance of sexual pleasure in preventing negative sexual health outcomes.
Methods: using data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD), we tested the assumption that sexual pleasure is associated with sexual health, including a special focus on the role of gender. Participants were interviewed about their sexual experiences and health between October 2018 and September 2019. The analytical sample included 3472 partnered and single women and men who had been sexually active with a partner in the past 12 months. We examined if sexual pleasure was associated with various sexual health indicators (i.e., communication about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), condom use, and absence of sexual problems).
Results: women reported less sexual pleasure than men. Results further indicate that sexual pleasure was associated with more sexual health indicators in women than in men.
Conclusions: supporting emerging trends in public health our results emphasize the importance of sexual pleasure in preventing negative sexual health outcomes. Policy Implications. To promote (especially women’s) sexual health, our results call for the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education programs that focus on more positive aspects of sex, such as sexual pleasure and agency.
Gender differences, Representative data, Sexual health, Sexual pleasure, Sexuality
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Klein, Verena
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December 2022
Klein, Verena
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Klein, Verena, Laan, Ellen, Brunner, Franziska and Briken, Peer
(2022)
Sexual pleasure matters (especially for women) - data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD).
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 19 (4), .
(doi:10.1007/s13178-022-00694-y).
Abstract
Introduction: sexual pleasure has been a neglected issue in sexual health policies. Emerging trends in public health, however, emphasize the importance of sexual pleasure in preventing negative sexual health outcomes.
Methods: using data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD), we tested the assumption that sexual pleasure is associated with sexual health, including a special focus on the role of gender. Participants were interviewed about their sexual experiences and health between October 2018 and September 2019. The analytical sample included 3472 partnered and single women and men who had been sexually active with a partner in the past 12 months. We examined if sexual pleasure was associated with various sexual health indicators (i.e., communication about sexually transmitted infections (STIs), condom use, and absence of sexual problems).
Results: women reported less sexual pleasure than men. Results further indicate that sexual pleasure was associated with more sexual health indicators in women than in men.
Conclusions: supporting emerging trends in public health our results emphasize the importance of sexual pleasure in preventing negative sexual health outcomes. Policy Implications. To promote (especially women’s) sexual health, our results call for the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education programs that focus on more positive aspects of sex, such as sexual pleasure and agency.
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Accepted/In Press date: 28 January 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 19 February 2022
Published date: December 2022
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Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. The study was funded by the German Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) (Grant numbers: Z2/25.5.2.1/18; Z2/25.5.2.1/20). This project has also received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 845508 awarded to Verena Klein.
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Gender differences, Representative data, Sexual health, Sexual pleasure, Sexuality
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