“I have been in a relationship for 5 years. Routine settled into our relationship and, a year ago, I started feeling attracted to other men. I need something new but I don’t want to break up my relationship and my family
. ”
This testimony from a thirty-year-old Belgian, user of the extramarital dating site Gleeden, will undoubtedly seem banal to the reader.
“It is normal to feel attracted to people other than your partner.
Sexual desire is uncorrelated with the feeling of love. It does not call into question the love we have for our partner
,” recalls Johanna Rozenblum, clinical psychologist in Paris. But what is behind the desire to look elsewhere?
The answer is not obvious. Five researchers conducted a systematic review of scientific work on the subject. In their study published in 2019 in the
Journal of Sexual Medicine
, they indicate having filtered 5159 articles on the subject according to qualitative criteria, to keep…
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