Corresponding author. Abstract Low sexual desire in women partnered with men is typically presumed to be a problem—one that exists in women and encourages a research agenda on causation and treatment targeting women. In this paper, we present a distinct way forward for research on low sexual desire in women partnered with men that attends to a more structural explanation: heteronormativity. A heteronormative worldview assumes that relationships and structures are heterosexual, gender usually conflated with sex is binary and complementary, and gender roles fit within narrow bounds including nurturant labor for women. We propose the heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men, arguing that heteronormative gender inequities are contributing factors. We close by noting some limitations of our paper and the ways that the heteronormativity theory of low sexual desire in women partnered with men provides a rigorous, generative, and empirical way forward. We discuss sexual desire—what it is, what low desire is, whether low desire is a problem and, if so, why, where, and for whom—and then discuss specific hypotheses and predictions derived from our theory. Within these hypotheses, we discuss a number of mechanisms, including objectification. We follow that with discussions of potential physiological pathways and then our conclusions.
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