Table 6.

Association of frequency of sexual touching with level of physical pleasure, without and with controls for psychological factors and emotional relationship satisfaction

	Men level of physical pleasure			Women level of physical pleasure
Sexual touching
Sometimes, rarely or never	0.2*** (0.09–0.3)	0.2*** (0.1–0.4)	0.4* (0.2–0.8)	0.2*** (0.07–0.3)	0.2*** (0.07–0.3)	0.4* (0.2–0.9)
Usually	0.3*** (0.2–0.6)	0.3*** (0.2–0.5)	0.5* (0.3–0.9)	0.3*** (0.2–0.5)	0.3*** (0.2–0.5)	0.6* (0.3–1.0)
Always	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Stress		1.1 (0.8–1.7)	1.0 (0.8–1.5)		1.0 (0.7–1.4)	1.0 (0.7–1.5)
Anxiety symptoms		0.7 (0.5–1.1)	0.9 (0.6–1.4)		0.8 (0.5–1.1)	0.8 (0.6–1.2)
Depressive symptoms		0.6* (0.4–0.9)	0.7 (0.4–1.2)		0.8 (0.5–1.3)	1.1 (0.7–1.8)
Taking SSRI antidepressant		1.2 (0.4–3.2)	0.8 (0.4–2.1)		0.9 (0.4–1.8)	0.9 (0.4–2.0)
How emotionally satisfying is relationship
Not, slightly, or moderately			0.01*** (0.003–0.02)			0.02*** (0.01–0.05)
Very			0.05*** (0.04–0.08)			0.1*** (0.06–0.2)
Extremely			Ref			Ref

All models control for age, race-ethnicity, education, relationship type, and physical health. Male models control for taking erectile dysfunction medication

Odds (95% CI) from ordered logistic regression models of level of physically pleasure in the relationship

Ref reference category

^*p<.05;

^**p<.01;

^***p<.001