Husbands’ Sexual and Emotional Relationships as Predictors of Sexual Satisfaction in Iranian Women.

Sexual satisfaction is associated with a person’s intrinsic perceived sense of pleasure from sexual behaviors. People’s perception of sexual satisfaction and its related factors vary with the culture. The present study explored the husbands’ sexual and emotional relationships as predictors of sexual satisfaction Iranian women. This study is a descriptive, cross-sectional study that includes 490 married women who referred to the health centers in North of Iran, in 2016. The health centers were selected randomly as samples. The mean age was 33.63 ± 9.15 years for participants and the mean number of sexual intercourse per month was 5.38 ± 3.1. The use of methods of contraception (<italic>p</italic> = 0.004), feeling of dislike for the husband (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001), less typical sex (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001), fatigued within sex in early hours of night (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001), the permanent second marriage of the husband (<italic>p</italic> < 0.001), and use of injectable contraceptive methods (<italic>p</italic> = 0.004) were the predictors of sexual satisfaction among women participating in this study. Observed results indicated that more than half of the women participating in this study (52.2%) achieved a high level of sexual satisfaction and less than half (42.2%) scored a moderate level of satisfaction. This difference in sexual satisfaction results could be caused by women’s shame to discuss sexual matters or complain about sex, low awareness of sexual health, the effect of personal perceptions, and transient sexual satisfaction as well as mental-emotional stresses, the effect of the most recent intimate relationship states with the husband, and hormonal changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]