This thesis is trying to understand marital sexual life fully, finding out the meaning and essence of experiences that married people imply upon. To research this, I use ' Hermeneutic Phenomenology ' among various Qualitative Research Methods, trying ...
This thesis is trying to understand marital sexual life fully, finding out the meaning and essence of experiences that married people imply upon. To research this, I use ' Hermeneutic Phenomenology ' among various Qualitative Research Methods, trying to understand the nature and meaning of human situations as it is in sociocultural context. My first concern is what the meaning of marital sexual life experienced by married couple is.
In this research, I interviewed 23people which divided into 10groups. Because the theme of this thesis is private and confident, it is not easy to induct people into answering vividly. So I use group interviews that I can get more various ideas and informations.
The marital sexual life of Korean revealed in this research can be divided into 3parts. First, a myth over the marital sexual life. This myth can be expressed through flaws such as normalcy ideology related to frequency of sex, 'Byeon, Kang Soi' syndrome and red lingerie ideology. The fact that married couples are learning sexual life through movies, internet, rumours and counsel of seniors, not through official way is making the more myths and prejudices, distorting information about sex.
Second, marital sexual life is hiding by itself as a part of daily life. The interviewees do not consider sex as the most significant thing in their marriage, even though they think it as an important issue. On the contrary, sex is a part of life, a role which has to be accomplished, and an essential element needed to construct family. Even worse, sex is less important than other stuffs. There is no couples who argued on priority of various roles. Sexual role has already been "the next thing" under the condition of an implied contract. Of course, the standard of defining roles can be various as a couple.
Third, Korean marital sexual life is playing an important role in making intimate relationship. It is true that significance of marital intimacy is increasing and sexual life is a key factor of sharing intimacy, but it is also true that in sharing intimacy, the importance of direct intercourse is reducing and been replacing by other sexual behavior. Furthermore, the behavior sharing intimacy between couples is increasing, and the meaning of these behaviors has been enlarged. People conclude that how they define role is important issue. In other words, expectation for role about sexual life could influence the meaning of sex of each couples, the performance of sex, satisfaction of relationship and the quality of life at last.
In conclusion, the marital sexual life of Korean is under the condition of daily lifes, surrounded by myth and secret. At the same time, other kinds of intimate behavior replacing direct intercourse can widen a sphere of sexual life. Ultimately, how couple define sexual life and compromise role expectation of each other would affect the various ways of marital sexual life.