GAMES FOR ABSTINENT COUPLES – SEXUAL DISINTEREST – Medical Articles, Medicine Information.
The causes of sexual disinterest vary. Some individuals have latent homosexual drives that interfere with their sexu­ality. In fact, this was the case with George and Tina: Both had unconscious homosexual drives that did not come to the sur­face until they entered couples therapy. Both were very reli­gious also and so could not accept their own homosexual feel­ings; they thought such feelings were evil and kept them repressed. The result was that they were never really sexually attracted to each other but got married because of their mutu­ally strong religious views, and other factors. After entering couples therapy, at which time they were both in their early forties, they became aware of the conflict between their reli­gious beliefs and their homosexuality and decided to separate and pursue homosexual relationships. Once they had "come out," they became alive again as individuals, whereas before— although they claimed to be quite happy with both their com­panionship and their religious faith—they were in essence emotionally dead.