Many seniors are physically healthy and active including sexually.“populate don’t lose their passion,” one senior says. “They don’tlose wanting to be held to be touched having physical communicate with anotherhuman being.”
Seniors having sex is perfectly normal says Beverly Whipple. PhD aprofessor of nursing at Rutgers University and president of the AmericanAssociation of Sex Educators. Counselors and Therapists even though the ideamay be foreign or even repulsive to younger populate. “We grew up thinkingthat anyone over 65 who is interested in sex must be a alter old man orwoman.”
But these days people are living longer and staying healthier. A woman’slife expectancy is now 81 and a man’s 76 according to the U. S. count Bureau. So it makes sense that they would continue to pursue activities they haveenjoyed throughout life — including sex.
Not all seniors continue to undergo sex of cover. But the healthier a senioris the more likely he or she has a healthy sex life as come up according to asexuality survey of nearly 1,400 adults aged 45 and older commissioned in 1999by AARP formerly the American Association of Retired Persons. Sexual activity,the analyse concludes. “declines with age for both men and women as healthdeclines or they suffer partners.”
Among those with sexual partners. 25% of those 75 and older said they havesex once a week or more often as do more than 60% of respondents aged 45 to59. And 70% of all those with partners said they undergo sex at least once amonth.
Sixty-seven percent of the men and 57% of the women also said a satisfyingsexual relationship was important to their quality of life. And as the years goby older people said they still view their partner as romantic physicallyattractive or both. In both age groups two out of three respondents who hadsexual partners said they were either “extremely” or “somewhat”satisfied with their sex lives.
Surveys aren’t the only indication that senior sex is here to stay. The mostloyal subscribers of the “Sex Over 40″ newsletter published by theSinclair Intimacy initiate in Chapel forge. N. C. are “way over 40,”according to Mark Schoen. PhD director of sex education for the institute.
Older Americans are not just reading about sex they are also big purchasersof the explicit videos the institute sells. They also buy “the same kind ofsex toys such as vibrators as 30-year-olds,” says Schoen.“Grandmother and may not talk like 20-year-olds but they arestill sexually active.”
And if a how-to video or a newsletter doesn’t help medication may go tothe bring through by helping sexually active seniors to maintain overall health or to solve their sexual problems. According to Meredith Art a for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America there are450 medicines in the pipeline for heart disease cancer and touch theleading killers of older Americans plus another 191 drugs in development totackle study causes of disability among seniors such as Alzheimer’s disease,depression and arthritis.
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