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标题: Sex in the second half of life [打印本页]

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-8 13:42 标题: Sex in the second half of life

Sex in the second half of life
Sexuality is not just for the young. Results from a University of Chicago survey published in 2007 suggested that over half of Americans remain sexually active well into their 70s. That said, sexual activity does subside with age. Biological factors tug in that direction, as do social arrangements: older people, especially women, often end up single when a spouse or partner dies. But researchers at Indiana University report that 20% to 30% of long-lived Americans are sexually active into their 80s.
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It wasn’t long ago that older people weren’t included in studies of sexual behavior because they were seen as largely irrelevant to the topic: 59 was the upper age limit of a landmark study of American sexuality conducted in the early 1990s. However, the University of Chicago survey focused exclusively on older adults, including just over 3,000 Americans ages 57 to 85. The results lent some legitimacy to the subject of sexuality of older people. Here are some of the main points:
Sexual activity tapers off with age. Both surveys show a decline in sexual activity with age, although the drop-off isn’t as steep as one might expect, and a significant minority (especially men) defies the trend. In the Indiana study, 35% of the men ages 80 and older reported that they had intercourse a few times or more in the past year. In the University of Chicago study, 38.5% of the men ages 75 to 85 reported having sexual activity with a partner in the previous year.
Older women are less sexually active than older men. Both studies show that older women — even the “young old,” in their 60s — are less sexually active than men of the same age. The gender gap widens as people get older.
Partnered sex gets high marks. In the Indiana study, over three-quarters (78%) of the men ages 50 and over rated their most recent sexual experience with a partner as either extremely or “quite a bit” pleasurable. About two-thirds (68.2%) of the women in that age group rated their most recent experience with a partner that highly.
Yet, a sizable minority of the men (43%) and women (36%) in the Indiana study reported that their most recent partnered sexual activity was with someone other than a spouse or long-time partner. This category included casual or new acquaintances, friends, and “transactional” partners — people who engaged in sex in exchange for something, often but not always money.
Masturbation is common. Most men (63%) and almost half of women (47%) in the 50 and over age group reported masturbating in the past year, according to the Indiana survey. As with other sexual activities, the percentage declined with age.
Good health matters. The University of Chicago researchers found a strong association between good health and sexual activity, particularly among men. Diabetes seems to have a greater negative effect than either arthritis or high blood pressure on both genders, but especially on women. In the Indiana survey, a woman’s evaluation of her last sexual experience did not vary with her self-reported health status.
Sexual problems are common. Half of those who participated in the University of Chicago study reported having at least one bothersome sexual problem. Among men, the problems included difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection (37%), lack of interest in sex (28%), anxiety about performance (27%), and inability to climax (20%). Among women, the common problems were lack of interest in sex (43%), difficulty with lubrication (39%), inability to climax (34%), lack of pleasure from sex (23%), and pain during sex (17%). In the Indiana survey, 30% of the women ages 50 and over said they experienced some level of pain during their most recent sexual experience with a partner.
Many men take something to improve sexual function. In the Indiana survey, 17% of men ages 50 and older took an erectile dysfunction drug in connection with their most recent sexual experience with a partner. In the University of Chicago study, 14% of the men and 1% of the women reported taking medications or supplements to improve sexual function during the past year.

作者: hbv30year 时间: 2011-6-9 21:50

Sex is a wonderful thing. Make Love, not make war.

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-9 22:12

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Don't wait until you are in your second half

作者: hbv30year 时间: 2011-6-9 22:19

Haha, I won't waste even 1 second, but first have to make sure I can have second half.

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-9 22:34

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That is what Napoleon used to say to Josephine : "Not to-night, darling. I still haven't conquered Russia".......................well the rest is history

作者: hbv30year 时间: 2011-6-10 09:54

本帖最后由 hbv30year 于 2011-6-10 09:56 编辑

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That is an interesting story. Napoleon bet on the wrong side, he should choose Josephine instead of russia. I guess Josephine was not his favour, Napoleon fell in love with another lady in russia

, just as I said, make love not make war, but make war for the real love.
but personally I think it worths the risk, what if he won the war? Russia doesn't exist anymore, neither Soviet Union, then...

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-10 11:00

本帖最后由 StephenW 于 2011-6-10 11:02 编辑

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This is interesting. If Napoleon chose to make love to Josephine, then as you say, there will be no wars. However, there was a ten-year war over Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships. So love can stop wars and make wars - what do you say to that, my friend

Do you have a Josephine or Helen in your life?

作者: hbv30year 时间: 2011-6-10 18:37

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However, there was a ten-year war over Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships. So love can stop wars and make wars - Do you have a Josephine or Helen in your life?
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Yes, every card has double sides, love can stop war and make war. I wish "hatred" can be transfered into "love", just a wish, no guarantee. Sometimes war breaks out because people love different things/person, each side believe theirs is true love. Who is right or wrong? I don't know, and sometimes nobody can tell. Only god know who is right, and god tells us truth via time(history). My Josephine or Helen, also in history

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-10 19:40

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Hear, hear!
I just have one little disagreement - hope you are not offended, I used to be very religious too - God has nothing to do with it.

作者: hbv30year 时间: 2011-6-10 21:43

Not at all, my friend. It is a free world, we have our own brief certainly. I am just a little bit surprised that you think god do nothing about right/wrong, given the fact you was a religious man before. It is like making a U turn while driving at 100km/h in highway. If you don't mind, can you tell me why, so I can make some change too.

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-10 22:51

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Well, I watched two video courses about the New and Old Bibles from Yale University - so the bibles are not written by God but by a bunch of people, mainly the Jews, to comfort themselves as the chosen people.
I believed in evolution and the Big Bang - so I don't believe in the Genesis.
I dislike the people who run the Christian churches - all they care about are: anti-gay, ant-abortion, and ant-contraception, very little about helping the poor and oppressed.
Oh, I also read a lot about the human brain and neuroscience - so there is no soul and most probably no free will either.

So it is pretty stupid to believe in the God that is depicted and worshiped by the present-day Christians.

But I am still hopeful that there is a purpose to us being here, rather than just being an accident of evolution.

Actually it is quite liberating to believe in yourself than to believe in a God that is impossible to understand.

That's all.

作者: hbv30year 时间: 2011-6-11 08:24

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I am just a 70% Christian. Only read Bible for several days and had never gone to church. I trust Big Bang theory and evolution too, they are proved by scientist already. In my understanding, Bible teachs us about God as true as possible, but it doesn't mean everything in bible is 100% true. In our world, even time, distance and speed aren't 100% true.
God may feel sorry to lose you, if God really exists.

Anyway, thanks for sharing, we are interested on sex, not religion in this topic.

作者: StephenW 时间: 2011-6-11 12:51

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Thank you, my friend for the good wishes. Hope we will (in the very far future) meet up in heaven (at least 70% of you

, God is fair) to continue our discussion on sex

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