Department of Psychology, Åbo Akademi University, Tehtaankatu 2, 20500, Turku, Finland.
Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Aug;53(8):3025-3041. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02948-9. Epub 2024 Jul 18.
Sexual compliance (i.e., consensually engaging in sex despite a lack of desire for it) is common in committed intimate relationships, but the consequences of compliance for the well-being of the individual and the relationship are poorly understood. We investigated the perceived consequences of sexual compliance and perceptions of factors contributing to negative/positive consequences by applying qualitative content analysis to free-text retrospective survey responses from 107 (mostly) Finnish adults. We identified five themes of personal consequences (emotions and mood, sexual experience, sexual desire, pressure and violations, and physical pain), four of relational consequences (relationship satisfaction, partner's response, relationship interaction, and value alignment), and nine of possible factors contributing to negative/positive consequences (communication, self-esteem, motives for sex, relationship factors, agency and self-knowledge, mental health and stress, psychological flexibility, societal norms, and past negative experiences). Perceived consequences varied widely across individuals, both in terms of whether any positive or negative consequences were experienced and whether compliance was perceived as improving or worsening specific domains of well-being. We discuss the themes identified in relation to previous theories of sexuality and intimate relationships and offer hypotheses that can be tested in future quantitative studies.
性行为依从（即，尽管缺乏性欲但仍同意发生性行为）在亲密关系中很常见，但性行为依从对个人和关系的幸福的后果却知之甚少。我们通过对 107 名（主要是）芬兰成年人的自由文本回顾性调查回复进行定性内容分析，研究了性行为依从的感知后果以及导致负面/正面后果的因素的看法。我们确定了五个个人后果主题（情绪和心情、性体验、性欲望、压力和侵犯以及身体疼痛），四个关系后果主题（关系满意度、伴侣的反应、关系互动和价值观一致），以及九个可能导致负面/正面后果的因素（沟通、自尊心、性行为动机、关系因素、能动性和自我认知、心理健康和压力、心理灵活性、社会规范和过去的负面经历）。个人对后果的看法差异很大，无论是经历了任何积极或消极的后果，还是性行为依从是否被认为改善或恶化了特定的幸福感领域。我们根据之前的性和亲密关系理论讨论了确定的主题，并提出了可以在未来的定量研究中进行检验的假设。
