Table 4.

Directions for future research on Sexual Desire Discrepancies (SDD)

Building consensus over how to define SDD
Explore dominant gendered norms and beliefs about SDD
Select diary methods and prospective designs to explore variability over time and across different contexts
Construct and validate measures focusing on the dyadic experience of SDD and the related distress
Build measures focusing on relational distress and dyadic experience of desire
Focus on the predictors, functions, and mechanisms underlying SDD