[Attachment and sexual self-views in shaping sexual and relationship satisfaction--review]

Gradual demystification of sexuality, in lay as well as in scientific research terms, has resulted in an increased number of papers which examined the relationship between behavioral-motivational systems of attachment and sexuality over the past decade. Attachment theory was widely used in the studies of human behavior as well as cognitive and emotional characteristics underlying these behaviors. Attachment styles, as relatively stable lifetime patterns, partially determine sexual self-image, and moderate the degree of sexual and relationship satisfaction. Final understanding of these relations, although the subject of considerable research interest, is still missing. In this article, the researches examining the link between attachment and sexuality systems were presented, as well as contribution of those systems to sexual and relationship satisfaction in order to encourage further research in this important area of human life.