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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Older Men Want Sex More Than Older Women Do

From the "What have I been telling you all along?" department comes this new study from the University of Chicago published in the British Medical Journal:
67% of men ages 65 to 74 said they had been sexually active in the past year, compared with just 40% of women in that age group. Everyone knows young men think constantly about sex, but many guys remain interested in sex until they are almost dead: more than one-third of men ages 75 to 85 said they had sex in the past 12 months, compared with just 17% of women in that age group.
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Older women also enjoy the sex they do have far less than older men. Married women ages 57 to 64 who haven't been divorced or widowed report having about as much sex as married men in the same age group. But while 77% of partnered men in that age group say they are interested in sex, only 36% of partnered women report the same interest. These figures suggest that a lot of older women may be having sex when they don't really want to.
Read more online @ Time.com.

UPDATE: AARP Survey: Americans 45 and Older Having Less Sex, reported on CBS.

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