The longer a woman stays with a man, the more she hates sex —Study

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Just when you thought that being in a long -
term relationship was a positive thing , study
shows that women who stayed with the same
men for over seven years reported a decrease
in their sexual desire!
Women who are in a long - term relationship
are more likely to experience a decrease in
sexual desire, scientists have said .
Changes in relationship status were found to
affect several different sexual functions, but a
libido decline after spending years with the
same person was the most pronounced trend
overall .
The new research , published in the journal
Psychological Medicine , looks at women ’ s sexual
functions — including desire, sexual
satisfaction and orgasm — over a period of
seven years , and takes into account what kind
of relationships these women were in .
Data from 2 , 173 Finnish women from two
large - scale, population- based data registers
was collected for the study , seven years apart .
The scientists used the female sexual function
index to assess domains of sexual function in
women in clinical trials .
Effects of age and relationship duration were
taken into account in the statistical analysis.
The researchers discovered that most aspects
of women ’ s sexual functions appeared
unstable over the years .
Previous sexual function was not a good
predictor of future sexual function overall ,
with satisfaction, pain and arousal changing
over time .
Sexual satisfaction in particular varied greatly
in seven years , but the ability to have an
orgasm remained stable for most women –
suggesting that sexual satisfaction and orgasm
are not always linked .
When it came to boosting women ’ s desire,
other sexual functions such as their ability to
have an orgasm only had a small impact, but
the scientists found out that relationship
length and status was perhaps more relevant.
Indeed , women who stayed in the same
monogamous relationship from the beginning
to the end of the study reported the greatest
decrease in their sex drive .
Women who had started a new relationship
during the course of the study also
experienced reduced libido , but to a smaller
degree .
Finally , women who were single at the end of
the observation period reported stable sexual
desire.
More studies are needed to better make sense
of the variations in female sexual function
over time .
However, the researchers already say it would
be useful to take into account partner - specific
factors and relationship characteristics in the
treatment of women ’ s sexual dysfunctions .