In this novel, Sinclair associates Jewishness with pain and deformity and depression with sexual dissatisfaction.
Intra-marital complaints about money are more "legitimate" in the public mind than those about sexual dissatisfaction.
Two-thirds of the marriages investigated were in danger at some point because of sexual dissatisfaction.
Newsweek notes that "as many as four in 10 American women experience some form of sexual dissatisfaction."
Contrary to this model, doctors often pointed to male inadequacy and female sexual dissatisfaction as the causes of women's malaise (as Maines points out).
A group of wistful, unfulfilled people with a shared past are reunited at a wedding where they loudly air their sexual dissatisfactions and existential fears.
However, you will also learn that a major cause of sexual dissatisfaction is allowing too little time for foreplay.
"Actually, it is psychological distress associated with not measuring up rather than physiological problems that causes most sexual dissatisfaction," Shaw says.
Mr. Shelley sang about fractured love and sexual dissatisfaction with a brazen frankness.
These reductions coincide with increased depressive symptoms, including anxiety and sexual dissatisfaction.