Attachment styles impact sexual and parental behavior in young adults.
A study published in The Journal of Sex Research explores how sexual dysfunction in young adulthood may be related to anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, and childhood victimization. Results showed that insecure attachment, including anxious and avoidant attachment styles, can affect sexual dysfunction due to the reasons that people decide to have sex. People who reported having sex for pleasure tended to have lower levels of sexual dysfunction. This study took important steps into better understanding how both attachment style and interpersonal childhood victimization related to sexual dysfunction for emerging adults.