Artificial Intelligence Helps Psychologists Predict Sexual Satisfaction
AI is making moves into our bedrooms. It's sliding into our DMs. The future is now.
AI is encroaching on our lives quicker than we think.
From our televisions to our smartphones, and even our dishwashers, everything is “smart” these days. No aspect of our lives is safe from the reach of machine learning.
This includes our bedrooms.
Several new studies have harnessed the power of AI to help us understand ourselves, our psychology, and our sexuality better.
One recent study by Laura M. Vowels, published this year in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, has demonstrated that AI can now predict sexual satisfaction. In turn, this can teach you a lot about your sexual self and any potential partners you may have.
Here’s how it works.
The machine uses an algorithm to analyze the sex lives of two diverse groups of people.
The first group was composed of 891 participants who responded to surveys containing questions pertaining to demographics and relationships (various ethnicities and sexual orientations were covered).
The second group was composed of the sexual partners of 754 of the participants from the first group. They responded to questions about sex.
These questions included everything from sexual desire to contraceptive use, relationship satisfaction, sexual behaviors, and, yes, of course, overall sexual satisfaction.
The goal was to see how predictable sexual satisfaction is and what components predictably drive it. By understanding this, we can understand why we desire what we desire and what makes us feel satisfied or unsatisfied in the bedroom.
What immediately stands out is the fact that, for both groups, relationship satisfaction was the number one predictor of sexual satisfaction. I know I’ve said it a million times, but relationship satisfaction has an outsized influence on sexual satisfaction.
But there’s much more. More often than not, when people are unhappy in the bedroom, they’re also unhappy in other areas of their romantic lives. It’s a catch-22 from hell and one that doesn’t just happen accidentally. We fall into this trap thanks to our beliefs.
More on this in a minute.