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Enduring love? – Warwick, Jan. 29

Warwick Sociology Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January, 2014 (5:00–6:30pm)

Gillian Rose Room, 3rd floor, Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, Coventry followed by a drinks reception in the foyer of the Ramphal Building. All welcome.

Jacqui Gabb, Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University

Enduring love? The in/significance of sex and sexuality in long-term couple relationships

The Enduring Love? study (ESRC RES-062-23-3056, 2011-2013) is exploring what it means and feels like to be a couple in contemporary Britain. Shifting the emphasis away from media hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims about what everyone is doing, and policy–professional practice emphasis on the ‘stressors’ which may contribute to relationship breakdown, we are focusing on the things that help people sustain their ‘enduring’ relationships. Drawing on survey (n=5494) and qualitative (n=50) data this paper will explore which factors count in shaping relationship experience, and, in particular, the in/significance of sex and sexuality. Survey findings indicate that gender, parenthood and sexuality are significant factors in shaping couple relationship experience. For example, non-heterosexual participants are the most positive about their relationship; in heterosexual relationships, parenthood appears to have an adverse impact on sexual desire. However, differences in sexual frequency and desire do not per se affect perceptions of relationship quality. To tease apart these survey patterns, I draw on rich multiple methods data to explore how couples variously work to fit themselves into the ideal or extend ‘the story’ to fit their lives. These data provoke us to rethink the couple (dyadic) relationship and its slippage into and conflation with cultural understandings of the heteronormative ‘couple norm’.

For a full list of talks in Spring Term click here: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/news/scd/2013-14/

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