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- Title
Sexual similarity, complementarity, accuracy, and overperception in same-sex couples.
- Authors
DE JONG, DAVID C.; REIS, HARRY T.
- Abstract
We examined whether similarity, complementarity, accuracy, and positive illusions exist within the sex lives of same-sex romantic couples. Partners had similar and complementary sexual desires and they perceived each other's desires with considerable accuracy; these effects were greater than in randomly matched pseudocouples. As evidence of positive sexual illusions, people overperceived sexual similarity and complementarity, and they overperceived the accuracy with which their partner knew their desires. Using actor-partner interdependence models (D. A. Kenny, D. A. Kashy, & W. L. Cook, 2006), similarity, complementarity, and positive illusions predicted sexual satisfaction, but a partner's actual accuracy did not. In parallel with earlier findings from heterosexual couples, this work indicates that positive sexual illusions are motivated cognitive processes that benefit sexual satisfaction, as theories of relationship maintenance suggest.
- Subjects
GAY couples; LUST; SEXUAL excitement; HETEROSEXUALS; MOTIVATION (Psychology); LGBTQ+ people's sexual behavior
- Publication
Personal Relationships, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 4, p647
- ISSN
1350-4126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pere.12101