Report: Mature Couples and Sex

How sexually active are couples as they reach their later years? What are the main hurdles to maintaining a healthy sex life as partners age? Read on for some recent findings!

Here's a question for all: If, as you get older, you simply don't want to have sex (or at least not very often) is there something wrong? I almost get the feeling from this article, as well as what I've heard from other sources regarding older people, that people thinkif you don't 'want' to have sex then there's something wrong.

Being over 50, I can feel myself slowing down in a lot of areas, including sexually, but I don't think that's such a bad thing. It doesn't mean I don't want to have sex and I don't enjoy it, it just means I'm not 20 anymore and twisting myself into 45 different physical postions has now become laughable. No, seriously, I'll just start laughing when I get "stuck".


Tell me there's one person over 50 here that doesn't have some sort of medical condition, no matter how healthy they are for their age or how youthful they feel. It doesn't mean we're dead though. We're still sexually attracted to other people and all the parts still work for the most part.


I'm not crazy about the pills older guys think they need to take to get up and running because of the side effects and trying to force their bodies to do something that's naturally going to slow down as testosterone levels decrease. There's a physiological reason why this happens after a certain age. We get so fixated on performance we forget that intimacy brings with it a way of performing naturally and spontaneously, and the earth doesn't have to move every single time anymore to feel satisfied. There's thousands of ways to be creative around "slowing down", instead of looking at it like it's the end of the world. Getting older is inevitable . . . accepting it gracefully requires real maturity.