sexual desire in iranian female university students: role of marital satisfaction and sex guilt

objective: to determine association between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and sex guilt among a sample of iranian female university students. methods: the data presented here were obtained from a total of 192 married iranian female university students who were selected via a multi-cluster sampling method from universities of social welfare and rehabilitation, tarbiat modarres, and islamic azad. the subjects&apos; sociodemographic data, marital satisfaction (using enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire), sex guilt (using mosher revised sex-guilt inventory), and sexual desire (using hurlbert index of sexual desire) were gathered. pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis methods were used to analyse the data. results: findings showed there are significant relationships between sexual desire and marital satisfaction (r = 0.51, p < 0.01) and also between sexual desire and sex guilt (r = -0.44, p < 0.01). also marital satisfaction and sex guilt were able to predict 31 percent of the variance of sexual desire. conclusion: marital satisfaction and sex guilt are two factors that significantly affect fluctuations in sexual desire of iranian female university students.