Centre for Health Behaviours research assistant director Jean Kim was attracted to the steamy subject after coming across widespread discussions by netizens.
Kim then designed questionnaires for a telephone poll with 808 married men and 2,038 married women, aged 25 to 59.
All respondents were local Chinese and came from all levels of society.
It was found that one in six men (17 percent) and nearly a third (31.6 percent) of women in the 45 to 59 age group have not had sex with their spouses for a year.
In the 25 to 44 age group, 5 percent of men went without sex for a year while for women between 25 to 34 it was 8.3 percent and 12.4 percent for those aged 35 to 44.
The results have been published by the International Society for Sexual Medicine.
Findings show commonly perceived factors such as long working hours, unemployment, smoking and heavy drinking play no significant roles in sexless marriages.
However, women who have a poor relationship with their husbands are seven times more likely to say "no" than those who get along with spouses.
The poll showed 81 percent of wives with a poor marital relationship did not have sex for the past year.
The marital relationship factor appears to be statistically insignificant in men who claim they have merely lost interest in sex.
However, men with lower education - an indicator of their socio-economic status - are nearly four times more likely to go sexless.
Age is significant in both genders - with men between 45 and 59 twice more likely to go sexless than those between 25 and 34, while the difference is up to five times higher in older women, the findings show.
Kim cited another focus group study which showed most men who refused to have sex with their wives complained about their nagging.
"Fat or ugliness were not factors. In fact, most men considered their wives physically rather attractive. However, they said they nagged and yelled at them too much," Kim said.
"These husbands use many excuses not to have sex with their wives. Some pretend they have erectile dysfunction, and some say they are busy at work and have to stay very late in the office.
"Some use their children as excuses, telling their wives to sleep with the kids."
Most wives put their lack of sex drive down to no longer loving the men they married, poor mental health, poor quality of life, loss of satisfaction and depression. [rc]
Copyright 2005, The Standard Newspaper Publishing Ltd
September 16, 2009
HONG KONG: No sex please, you're just a loveless nag
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HONG KONG / The Standard / Asia News / September 16, 2009
By Patsy Moy
When it comes to sex, nagging is a top passion killer for men - while their wives are more likely to have fallen out of love with them. That may explain why a third of young and middle-aged couples in Hong Kong have not been active between the sheets for the past year.
A new study by the Chinese University also appears to suggest that couples tend to avoid getting a divorce even after their lust for each other has long gone.
Centre for Health Behaviours research assistant director Jean Kim was attracted to the steamy subject after coming across widespread discussions by netizens.
Kim then designed questionnaires for a telephone poll with 808 married men and 2,038 married women, aged 25 to 59.
All respondents were local Chinese and came from all levels of society.
It was found that one in six men (17 percent) and nearly a third (31.6 percent) of women in the 45 to 59 age group have not had sex with their spouses for a year.
In the 25 to 44 age group, 5 percent of men went without sex for a year while for women between 25 to 34 it was 8.3 percent and 12.4 percent for those aged 35 to 44.
The results have been published by the International Society for Sexual Medicine.
Findings show commonly perceived factors such as long working hours, unemployment, smoking and heavy drinking play no significant roles in sexless marriages.
However, women who have a poor relationship with their husbands are seven times more likely to say "no" than those who get along with spouses.
The poll showed 81 percent of wives with a poor marital relationship did not have sex for the past year.
The marital relationship factor appears to be statistically insignificant in men who claim they have merely lost interest in sex.
However, men with lower education - an indicator of their socio-economic status - are nearly four times more likely to go sexless.
Age is significant in both genders - with men between 45 and 59 twice more likely to go sexless than those between 25 and 34, while the difference is up to five times higher in older women, the findings show.
Kim cited another focus group study which showed most men who refused to have sex with their wives complained about their nagging.
"Fat or ugliness were not factors. In fact, most men considered their wives physically rather attractive. However, they said they nagged and yelled at them too much," Kim said.
"These husbands use many excuses not to have sex with their wives. Some pretend they have erectile dysfunction, and some say they are busy at work and have to stay very late in the office.
"Some use their children as excuses, telling their wives to sleep with the kids."
Most wives put their lack of sex drive down to no longer loving the men they married, poor mental health, poor quality of life, loss of satisfaction and depression. [rc]
Copyright 2005, The Standard Newspaper Publishing Ltd
Centre for Health Behaviours research assistant director Jean Kim was attracted to the steamy subject after coming across widespread discussions by netizens.
Kim then designed questionnaires for a telephone poll with 808 married men and 2,038 married women, aged 25 to 59.
All respondents were local Chinese and came from all levels of society.
It was found that one in six men (17 percent) and nearly a third (31.6 percent) of women in the 45 to 59 age group have not had sex with their spouses for a year.
In the 25 to 44 age group, 5 percent of men went without sex for a year while for women between 25 to 34 it was 8.3 percent and 12.4 percent for those aged 35 to 44.
The results have been published by the International Society for Sexual Medicine.
Findings show commonly perceived factors such as long working hours, unemployment, smoking and heavy drinking play no significant roles in sexless marriages.
However, women who have a poor relationship with their husbands are seven times more likely to say "no" than those who get along with spouses.
The poll showed 81 percent of wives with a poor marital relationship did not have sex for the past year.
The marital relationship factor appears to be statistically insignificant in men who claim they have merely lost interest in sex.
However, men with lower education - an indicator of their socio-economic status - are nearly four times more likely to go sexless.
Age is significant in both genders - with men between 45 and 59 twice more likely to go sexless than those between 25 and 34, while the difference is up to five times higher in older women, the findings show.
Kim cited another focus group study which showed most men who refused to have sex with their wives complained about their nagging.
"Fat or ugliness were not factors. In fact, most men considered their wives physically rather attractive. However, they said they nagged and yelled at them too much," Kim said.
"These husbands use many excuses not to have sex with their wives. Some pretend they have erectile dysfunction, and some say they are busy at work and have to stay very late in the office.
"Some use their children as excuses, telling their wives to sleep with the kids."
Most wives put their lack of sex drive down to no longer loving the men they married, poor mental health, poor quality of life, loss of satisfaction and depression. [rc]
Copyright 2005, The Standard Newspaper Publishing Ltd
