Comportamiento Sexual de Varones Durante el Embarazo: Casos en la Ciudad de México

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Abstract

El objetivo fue reportar el comportamiento sexual de varones en el embarazo, sus experiencias y significaciones. Participaron 6 hombres de la Ciudad de México, de 23 a 35 años de edad, casados, con escolaridad y ocupación distintas. Fueron entrevistados sobre sus experiencias sexuales durante la gestación de su hijo. Cada varón constituyó un caso: suspensión del sexo preservando un embarazo difícil de obtener; interrupción del sexo para cuidar a la pareja embarazada y no lastimar al bebé; disminución del sexo con el avance del embarazo; interrupción del sexo al final del embarazo evitando un aborto espontáneo; mejoramiento de sus relaciones sexuales en el embarazo; y una sexualidad especial y sostenida hasta el nacimiento. Los varones -con base en vivencias y significaciones de la relación amorosa y erótica con su pareja, el cuerpo preñado, la gestación y su paternidad naciente- decidieron cómo comportarse sexualmente con sentido durante el embarazo.

Translated abstract

The aim was to report the sexual behavior of males in pregnancy, their experiences and meanings. 6 men participated, Mexico City, from 23 to 35 years old, married, with different education and occupation. They were interviewed about their sexual experiences during fetal development of their child. Each man was a case: suspension of sex to maintain a pregnancy difficult to obtain; interrupt sex to care for the couple during the pregnancy and not harm the baby; sex decreased with advancing pregnancy; disruption of sex in late pregnancy by preventing spontaneous abortion; improvement of their sex in pregnancy; and a special sexuality and sustained until birth. Men - based on experiences and meanings of love and erotic relationship with his partner, the pregnant body, the gestational development and emerging fatherhood - decided how to behave sexually with a sense during pregnancy.

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Sexuality during pregnancy and after childbirth: a metacontent analysis of 59 studies.

Eva von der Heide (1999)

The aim of this study is to gain a systematic overview of all existing studies on parental sexuality during pregnancy and the postpartum period (months 1-6). Investigations of psychological and medical data banks and cross-references revealed 59 relevant studies published in English or German between 1950 and 1996. These primary studies were metacontent analyzed, according to the following categories: methodology (samples, designs): type of descriptive data researched (sexual activity, interest, enjoyment, orgasm, problems); and type of correlational data researched (sexual variables and pregnancy outcome, maternal physical and psychological health, sociodemographic data, biographical data, partnership data). On average, female sexual interest and coital activity declines slightly in the first trimester of pregnancy, shows variable patterns in the second trimester, and decreases sharply in the third trimester. Most couples do not practice intercourse for about 2 months around the delivery. Afterwards, sexual interest and activity tends to be reduced for several months as compared with the prepregnancy level, and sexual problems occur relatively often. But most remarkable is the interindividual variability concerning sexual responsiveness, orgasm, activity, and enjoyment. Descriptive research is focused on coital activity of (expectant) mothers. Data about fathers, noncoital activities, and sexual feelings are scarce. Data analysis is focused on three questions: (1) Does sexual activity in pregnancy harm the fetus? (if there are no risk factors: no); (2) Are physical and mental symptoms or data about the delivery and sexual variables correlated? (in some cases: yes); (3) Are sociodemographic data and sexual variables correlated? (mostly not). Research deficits (e.g., conceptual reductionism "sexuality=intercourse," neglect of the male partners, validity, reliability, neglect of the nonsexual partnership and of biographical influences) are critically discussed. Medical, counseling, and psychotherapeutic implications are derived.