The study of perception of Married Women Facing Sexual Failure and Its Consequences

Abstract

Increasing marital tensions, mental health problems of some married women, and increasing extramarital affairs raise the question of how effective sexual dissatisfaction in women is in these tensions and what are the consequences of these failures? In some studies, although this issue has been addressed from different dimensions, but the lack of a comprehensive psychological and sociological perspective on the consequences of female sexual failure is evident, so in this article, married women understand sexual failure and its effects. It deals with individual, interpersonal and social.The qualitative research approach and the method of conducting it were in-depth interviews and the findings were analyzed with a phenomenological approach. For the interview, samples were consciously selected from women referring to counseling centers. A total of semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 35 people in one- to two-hour sessions to reach saturation.The results of the interviews were categorized into four main categories of perception of failure, individual consequences, interpersonal and social consequences, which showed different perceptions of married women about sexual failure and caused a reaction. چون Anxiety, depression, isolation, conflict, emotional divorce, desire to have an extramarital affair.

Keywords

• phenomenology
• sexual satisfaction
• marital relationships
• sexual relationships
• sexual failure