News, Survey: Seniors Enjoying Sex Well into Their Eighties. (wives, women, younger)
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The majority of older Americans are sexually active and view intimacy as an important part of life with which not even illness can interfere, according to a national survey.
Billed as the first comprehensive, nationally representative survey to assess the prevalence of sexual activity of people 57 and older, the research finds that the “bothersome” sexual problems that sometimes strike older Americans do little to slow down their sex lives.
“This study breaks new ground in social and behavioral research,” said Richard Suzman, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Aging's Behavioral and Social Research Program, in a news release. “Its portrait of this aspect of older Americans’ lives suggests a previously uncharacterized vitality and interest in sexuality that carries well into advanced age, which perhaps has not been appreciated as an important part of late life.”
Researchers gathered information from a nationally representative sample of 3,005 men and women ages 57 to 85 years, asking about each person’s marital or other relationship status, frequency and types of sexual activity during the past 12 months, physical health, and communication with a physician about sex. They also asked sexually active respondents about the presence of sexual problems.
Absolutely. I used to work with seniors, and had friends/collegues who worked in nursing homes...just about every nursing home professional I've talked to has at least a couple of stories about finding 2 senior citizens getting it on. And keep in mind, if you're living in a nursing home, you have some serious health issues!
How truly wonderful for them. I think it would be awful to be old, alone, stuck in a nursing home with very little human touch. I'm glad to know it isn't that way for all of them.
Seems to me like men in the erectile dysfunction commercials are getting younger all the time. But hey-who cares, they can pop a pill and problem solved. They can sit around in a bar having a jam session singing at the tops of their lungs about the wonders of viagra, then leave the bar and go home and wonder why their wives might not be in the mood...'Hey honey LOOK what I GOT!!!'
They found my grandma in bed with a guy at her assisted living facility and reported it to us. Our question, "Were they using birth control?"
(Okay, that sounds like my grandma was a &^%$... They had a relationship... it was cute to the staff as long as they were dancing or holding hands....)
They found my grandma in bed with a guy at her assisted living facility and reported it to us. Our question, "Were they using birth control?"
(Okay, that sounds like my grandma was a &^%$... They had a relationship... it was cute to the staff as long as they were dancing or holding hands....)
So, they were doin' the Hokey-Pokey??? You're never too old for [safe] sex!
More power to em....
although the old people I know (both men and women) don't even like to talk about it, much less do it.
This is probably a joke, right?
If you mean my post about my grandmother, no it wasn't. Our response to the staff was meant as a joke, because, really, why would they report it to us as though it was so wrong? They weren't caught in the dining room or anything.
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You're never too old for [safe] sex!
