Sex in Australia: Sexual difficulties in a representative sample of adults
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public HealthPublished 1 April 2003Open access
Juliet Richters, Andrew E. Grulich, Richard de Visser, Anthony M. A. Smith, Chris Rissel
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The Australian Study of Health and Relationships reports on sexual behaviours in a representative sample of Australian adults and finds that young people are more sexually active than older people and are more likely to have a sexual relationship with a partner.
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The assumption that everyone should be interested in sex, should want to have it and should enjoy having it is a socially normative prescription and not a description of the actual state of affairs. Women reported less interest in sex, less pleasure and more pain than men.
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