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Abstract
It is currently understood that sexual desire in human beings is determined by intrapsychic, interpersonal, social and cultural factors. Thus, the main purpose of this study was to analyse the relationship between dyadic and solitary sexual desires and a series of biological, psychological and cultural variables. A total of 195 men and 290 women, from Spain, with ages ranging from 18 to 81 years responded to the Sexual Desire Inventory, Sexual Opinion Survey, Hurlbert Index of Sexual Assertiveness, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Inventario de Depresión Estado-Rasgo (Spanish adaptation of the State-Trait Depression Questionnaire) and Wilson's Sex Fantasy Questionnaire. Results show that sex, age, intimate and exploratory fantasies and sexual assertiveness predict dyadic desire, whereas solitary sexual desire is predicted by sex, exploratory and impersonal fantasies and sexual assertiveness. These results support the multidimensional nature of sexual desire and represent a step forward compared with the purely motivational trend.