The relation of mood and sexual desire:An intensive longitudinal study of the Dual Control Model

The results of the current study show that sex used as coping is not necessarily an indication of a problematic involvement with sex, but might be a common, innocuous method of emotion regulation, particularly active in people more open to sexual excitation. This study demonstrated how intensive longitudinal methods can be used to extend research on associations between sexual and non-sexual emotions and shows that sexual excitation and inhibition proneness moderate associations between affect and sexual desire.