Mating in Captivity: The Influence of Social Location on Sexual Satisfaction through Phases of the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Published in: Socius : sociological research for a dynamic world Vol. 9; p. 23780231231173899
• Main Authors: McElroy, Elizabeth E., Perry, Samuel L., Grubbs, Joshua B.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2023; Sage Publications Ltd; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Adults; COVID-19; Employment; Gender; Marriage; Original; Pandemics; Parents & parenting; Political identity; Resilience; Satisfaction; Sexual satisfaction; Social dynamics; Social systems; Well being; COVID-19; inequality; natural experiment; gender; sexual satisfaction

The recent global pandemic provides a natural experiment “intervention” to examine how differing baseline social dynamics such as gender, education, and politics shaped diverging patterns of well-being during rapidly shifting societal conditions. Using married adults from a nationally representative...