Romantic Love and Sexual Frequency
The purpose of this review is to summarize the evidence about the association between romantic love and sexual frequency. We outline what has historically been thought about romantic love and sexual frequency as well as the latest theoretical and empirical contributions to this area of research. There have been three published articles that consider sexual frequency in a sample of participants experiencing romantic love. All are drawn from the same international sample: the Romantic Love Survey 2022. A number of publicly available studies not yet published also exist using this sample. It appears that young adults in love report having sex 3.5 times per week on average, but there was substantial variation in sexual frequency in this sample. This is meaningfully higher than sexual frequency found in the married American population.
Authors
- Marta Kowal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-1471)
- Fabio Cannas Aghedu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5670-7417)
- Adam Bode (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4593-5179)
- Severi Luoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3904-3994)
Institutions
- Australian National University (AU)
- University of Wrocław (PL)
- Université de Nîmes (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Current Sexual Health Reports
- Published
- 2026-04-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-026-00422-2
- Primary Topic
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Australian National University