What to expect when you’re expecting: What is the role of perinatal sex education?
By Audrey Chu This blog is a summary of our published article: Fitzpatrick, E. T., Rosen, N. O., & Dawson, S. J. (2023). What to expect when you’re expecting: Perinatal sexual education is linked with couples’ sexual well-being in pregnancy and the postpartum. Journal of Sex Research, 60(9), 1269-1282. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2193570 The period from pregnancy […]
What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex?
By David Allsop This blog is a summary of our published article: Allsop, D. B., Huberman, J. S., Cohen, E., Bagnell, K. B., Péloquin, K., Cockwell, H., & Rosen, N. O. (2023). What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex? Comparing sexual well-being between couples with and without a recent loss. Archives of Sexual Behavior, […]
Changes to sexual function and distress in the transition to parenthood
By Malia Artibello This blog is a summary of our published article: Tavares, I. M., Rosen, N. O., Heiman, J. R., & Nobre, P. J. (2023). Biopsychosocial predictors of couples’ trajectories of sexual function and sexual distress across the transition to parenthood. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 52(4), 1493–1511. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02480-8 The transition to parenthood (pregnancy to […]
Coping with low sexual desire: Do beliefs about maintaining sexual relationships affect sexual well-being?
By Valérie Lagacé This blog is a summary of our published article: Raposo, S., Rosen, N. O., Corsini-Munt, S., Maxwell, J. E., & Muise, A. (2021). Navigating women’s low desire: Sexual growth and destiny beliefs and couples’ well-being. The Journal of Sex Research, 58(9), 1118-1129. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2021.1884179 Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels For many couples, sexual […]
Is spontaneous sex actually more sexually satisfying than planned sex?
By Kaitlin Myers This blog is a summary of our published article: Kovacevic, K., Tu, E., Rosen, N. O., Raposo, S., & Muise, A. (2024). Is spontaneous sex ideal? Beliefs and perceptions of spontaneous and planned sex and sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships. The Journal of Sex Research, 61(2), 246-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2022.2163611 Photo by Doğu Tuncer on […]
How does using porn alone affect relationship quality?
By Alice Bourne and Grace Schwenck This blog is a summary of our published article: Vaillancourt-Morel, M. P., Rosen, N. O., Bőthe, B., & Bergeron, S. (2023). Partner Knowledge of Solitary Pornography Use: Daily and Longitudinal Associations with Relationship Quality. The Journal of Sex Research, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2023.2219254 Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels The expansion of […]
Sexual well-being after pregnancy loss
By Audrey Chu and Grace Schwenck This blog is a summary of our published article: Allsop, D. B., Huberman, J. S., Cohen, E., Bagnell, K. B., Péloquin, K., Cockwell, H., & Rosen, N. O. (2024). What does a pregnancy loss mean for sex? Comparing sexual well-being between couples with and without a recent loss. Archives […]
Decoding the link between motivations for sex, sexual and relationship satisfaction, and sexual desire
By Malia Artibello This blog is a summary of our published article: Shoikhedbrod, A., Rosen, N. O., Corsini-Munt, S., Harasymchuk, C., Impett, E. A., & Muise, A. (2023). Being responsive and self-determined when it comes to sex: How and why sexual motivation is associated with satisfaction and desire in romantic relationships. The Journal of Sex Research, 60(8), […]
Don’t hesitate, just regulate: Emotion regulation and women’s sexual well-being
By Justin Dube; This blog is a summary of our published article: Dubé, J. P., Dawson, S. J., & Rosen, N. O. (2020). Emotion Regulation and Sexual Well-being Among Women: Current Status and Future Directions. Current Sexual Health Reports, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-020-00261-9
Mapping a course: Predicting outcomes of two treatments for women who have pain during sex
By Katrina Bouchard; This post is a summary of a recently published article from the Couples and Sexual Health Lab with our close collaborators at Université de Montréal:
Rosen, N. O., Vaillancourt-Morel, M.-P., Corsini-Munt, S., Steben, M., Delisle, I., Baxter, M.-L., & Bergeron, S. (2021). Predictors and moderators of provoked vestibulodynia treatment outcome following a randomized trial comparing cognitive-behavioral couple therapy to overnight lidocaine. Behavior Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2021.05.002
