Women's relationship quality is associated with specifically penile-vaginal intercourse orgasm and frequency

Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 319-327

  Costa, Rui Miguel ^a   Brody, Stuart ^b  

^a CEDEMA Associação de Pais e Amigos Dos Deficientes Mentais Adultos   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTIMACY; LOVE; MALE; MASTURBATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGASM; PENIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SATISFACTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; VAGINA;

ADULT; AROUSAL; COITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MASTURBATION; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PORTUGAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 34249889919     PISSN: 0092623X     EISSN: 15210715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00926230701385548     Document Type: Article

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