Attitudes that Help Promote Positive Marital Sexuality.

McCarthy and McCarthy (2003) - Attitudes that help promote positive marital sexuality as including the beliefs that:

1. Sexual interaction is a healthy component of marriage that need not be a source of negative feelings or guilt.

2. Married persons deserve to feel good about their bodies and to view sexual expression as a normal, healthy part of their marriage.

3. A primary component of marital sexuality is giving and receiving pleasure-oriented touching in the context of an intimate, committed, and divinely supported relationship. As such, it requires relaxation and focus on the other person as well as on one’s own pleasure.

4. Sexuality should be expressed in a way that enhances your intimate, marital relationship and bonds you together.

5. Couples should strive to create a “we” relationship, where both partners’ sharing and pleasure is important as opposed to one person individually focused on what she or he will get out of the experience.