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ln our sarple, individual sexual satisfaction composite scores were
not correlated with age, r = -.014, nor with the length of relationship,
r = -.007. However, the 101 more satisfied subjects have reported
significantly more active oral-genital behaviors, M = 84.2, than the 66
less satisfied subjects, M =40.5, (t = 4.0, P < .001). As for satisfaction of
one's regular sexual partner, no significant correlation was found
with age, r = .041, nor with the length of the relationship, r = -.047, but
it was found with the frequency of oral-genital se x, r = -.306. Hence,
about half of the active subjects (n = 82) indicated they were Jully
satisfied of their regular sexual partner, the satisfaction of the others
ranging from very much to not at all. As anticipated, Jully satisfied
subjects reported a significant higher rate of active oral-genital sex,
M = 90.8, than less satisfied ones, M = 42.1, (t = 4.0, P < .001).
DISCUSSION
During 1987, 20.8% of married or cohabiting heterosexual adults in
the present study have performed NO active oral-genital sex with
their regular sexual partner. That is less than the percentages of
around 40% reported by Hunt (1974) for married couples, but close to
the various percentages reported by Gagnon and Simon (1987).
Contrasting with college population (Wilson and Medora, 1990), data
from the present study did not show any significant difference
between male and female adults concerning the acceptability of active
oral-genital sex as measured by the incidence and the frequency of this
behavior. These results are in line with those reported by Gagnon and
Simon (1987) and by Whitley (1989), for in our sample, women and
men did not significantly differ neither on religiosity, church
attendance, number of children, length of relationship, nor on
attitudes toward sexual permissiveness (Dupras et aL, 1989a). Indeed
women in our sample were younger than men. But analysis broken
down by age groups still revealed no differences between men and
women.
However, incidence was much more present among younger
married or cohabiting individuals, and a particular gap has been
observed in our data among older individuals, since only 38% of
those in their mid-fifties or older have reported it. These results are
comparable to the tendencies reported earlier for France by Simon et
al. (1972), where a similar break was observed by the age of 50, the drop
being larger among lower education individuals. Associated with the
number of'years married, this sharp drop would match the decline
with that age period, of oral-genital sex as a preferred sexual activity