Adult Sexuality in Colima and Guadalajara: Between Reality and Desire

This article analyzes information about the sex lives of heterosexual men and women in the cities of Colima and Guadalajara arising from the Survey about Intimacy and Couple Relations in Colima and Guadalajara (EIRP, 2021). The aim is to discover who has a sex life, the reasons for not having one, and contrasting people’s real sexual practices from those they would want to have, considering that this tension is framed within the structural limi-tations marked both by material living conditions and by the symbolic resou-rces available to them that allow them to imagine possibilities and to use their agency.