02 Jun Your sex life is only as old as you feel
Reading Time: 2 minutesImproving your sexual outlook
When we are young, we can have this view that older couples, even our parents, don’t have sex! However, a recent study offers a different, more hopeful outlook for couples!
The study looked at the attitudes of sex and ageing of a group of 1170 adults from their mid-40s to their mid-70s over a 10-year period.
The group, which included people of diverse sexual orientation, reported that the closer people felt to their chronological age, the lower the quality of their sex life.
Steven Mock, an associate professor in Recreation and Leisure Studies at Waterloo who was part of the research team says,
What was clear from the data is that feeling younger had a huge impact on how people felt about the quality of their sex life and how interested they were in having sex. For people in mid to later life, feeling young at heart actually appears to make a difference in the bedroom.
The research drew upon data collected in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study in the between 1995 and 2005. The MIDUS study is a national longitudinal study of health and well-being in the United States and measures the physical and mental health of participants over a period of decades.
Amy Estill, who led the research while completing her Master’s degree at Waterloo said,
It's important to consider all of the different psychosocial and biological factors that might influence a person's sexuality. While feeling younger didn't have an impact on how much sex people were having, it was quite clear that feeling older does impact the quality of the sex you're having.
So when it comes to thinking about how you feel about sex in later life, think yourself younger and see what happens! Our minds are the most significant erotic asset we have, so use your imagination to change the way you feel about yourself in the bedroom: the younger you are at heart, the more glowing the sexual experience!
Have fun and enjoy yourself.
Reference
Amy Estill, Steven E. Mock, Emily Schryer, Richard P. Eibach. The Effects of Subjective Age and Aging Attitudes on Mid- to Late-Life Sexuality. The Journal of Sex Research, 2017; 1 DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1293603
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