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Sex & Seniors:
Use It Or Lose It!
According to the "experts", marital ardor declines as
couples age, both for biological reasons and because society frowns on Grandma
and Grandpa having sex.
Of course, we have found that most of these "experts"
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Adults have sex 57 times a year, or about
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once a week.
» Under 40 years of age
- 78 times a year.
» Over 70 years of age
- 8 times.
» Married people
- 67 times.
» Separated people
- 66 times.
» Divorced
/ never married people - 55 times
» Widowed people
- 6 times.
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Older Women Want, Men Can't Deliver.
Many older women still want to have sex, but they might find their men cannot
oblige. So says a global survey of 27,780 adults aged 40 to 80 from 30 countries
that found aging women become sexually dysfunctional at about half the rate of
men.
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Facts on Sex and Seniors
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 According to a Janus Report,
"Researchers found that 74% of women age 65 and older engaged in weekly sexual
activity, including masturbation, compared to 68% of women ages 18 to 26."
According to a study reported in the latest issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, there's a numerical correlation between "coffee drinking and a higher rate of sexual activity in elderly women and a decreased prevalence of impotency among elderly men."
Ananais Diokno of the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., said that
the reason may be that coffee is a powerful stimulant of the central nervous
system and relaxant of the smooth muscles. Then again, "Coffee users may be more
liberal in their sexual behavior."
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 Married people who say they are the happiest have the most sex. Whether happy people have more sex, or more sex makes you happy, researchers don't know. Among all people, married or not, happy people are having sex 64.5 times per year compared with 55.5 for those who are "pretty happy" and 49.5 for those that are "unhappy."
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Some other surveys report that men on the average have sex 66.4 times during the year, and women reported having intercourse 50.6 times. Something is amiss, don't you think? |
 Sex in your senior years
Most older people are able to lead an active, satisfying sex life. When
problems occur, they are usually the result of disease, disability, drug
reaction, or emotional upset.
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 Good sex for seniors
If you expect to react like newlyweds in the
bodies of 50- to 90-year-olds, you may become frustrated and unhappy. But, if
you learn to go with the flow and adjust and adapt to the changes in your
body, sex can be fulfilling.
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 Contraceptives
Statistics tell us that people over 50 can be quite sexually active, often with
younger partners who do need birth control. But sexually active people of any
age can get sexually transmitted diseases.
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 Sexuality in later life
Older couples may have the same problems that affect people of any age. In
addition, reactions to physical changes with age, retirement and other shifts in
lifestyle and illness can cause sexual difficulties--and can usually be helped
by counseling.
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Sexually transmitted diseases |
 Most
people don't want the following information, but statistics tells us that men
and women over 50 and even into the 80s and 90s can be quite sexually active
with multiple partners and DO get venereal diseases.
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Have a good life... |
 Have great sex
Americans getting on in years are still getting it on. A survey on Sexuality
and Older Adults for the National Council on Aging found 48 percent of
Americans age 60 and older are sexually active at least once a month.
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