In the beginning of marriage, intimacy and sex are very important for majority of couples. As life goes on, according to different studies, variety and frequency of married sex can not be even compared with sex before or outside marriage. Married couples usually have sexual or romantic activity one or two times a month. On average basis, married couples have sex with their spouse no more than once a week which ends up being 58 times a year according to data collected from the General Social Survey, which has tracked the social behaviors of Americans since 1972. This rate of recurrence would be completely unacceptable for majority of single people or people having extramarital relations. For majority of couples, as years go on, regularity as well as assortment of married sex is dropping drastically bringing marriage to a stage of being sexless. Fifteen percent of all married couples have not had sex with their spouse in six months to one year period with tendency to continue living in a sexless marriage.
According to Wikipedia, Marriage is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture. Historically, marriage institution has been created by society and regulated by government as a union of one man and one woman to organize, regulate and protect organization and structure of civilized culture. From the social order point of view, people have been getting married based on legal, social, emotional, economical, spiritual, and religious reasons. Emotionally, we always expect marriage to be declaration of eternal love. In reality, are interpersonal relationships: intimate and sexual still continue being major part of marriage through years of commitment?
What these tendencies come from? Do all of these people have very low sex drives, and may even be asexual? Are reasons of sexless marriage physical and differs from couple to couple, or is it social?
We should be practical and reasonable enough to admit the fact that maintaining the passion alive forever is not realistic for majority of people. Passion has a tension to simply fade out making sex boring and undesirable. Excitement and anticipation are gone. Passion and spark disappear. This situation becomes critical if one partner does not want or can not continue living in a neutral stage and can not leave a marriage.
Being married means having responsibilities and obligations of having children, getting a career, and providing for a family. Having good sex rarely made a priority... The biggest problem is that it