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December 6th, 2010
05:01 PM ET
Many older men sexually satisfied in 70s, 80s, even 90sFile this in the "age isn't anything but a number" category: Older men enjoy a satisfying sex life well in to their golden years, finds a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers surveyed about 2,800 men in Australia, ages 75 to 95, and found a third of them had at least one sexual encounter with a partner in the last year. 56 percent of those men reported satisfying sex lives. Sex was considered to be a "somewhat important" part of life for 48 percent of the respondents, including men ages 90 to 95. "Sexuality is an innate component of our make-up as human beings," says Michael Reece, Director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University, who was not affiliated with the study. "We're sexual beings from birth until death." The study did find that sexual activity decreased with age; study participants in their 70s had more sex than their peers in their 90s. Indeed, medical factors including decreased testosterone levels, prostate cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and depression were all associated with an absence of sexual activity among the men surveyed. Plus, social factors such as having a partner who is not interested in sex, or not having a partner at all, were also found to limit a person's prospects for sex later in life. "Men who have partners versus the ones who do not usually have a much different sexual profile and a much happier one," says Pepper Schwartz, the Sexuality, Love and Relationship Ambassador for the AARP. "Access is the issue, not desire." The annals study affirms what Reece and his team discovered back in October after looking in to the sexual behaviors of older Americans. In a study funded by Church and Dwight, the company that makes Trojan condoms, they found that as many as 30 percent of Americans were sexually active in to their 80s. Both studies are part of a growing body of research looking at sex in a population often overlooked or thought of as asexual. "As a society we don't really endorse the idea of older people looking for or finding sexual partners," says Reece. Schwartz agrees and says an older person wanting to develop a sex life should feel empowered to start a new relationship. "The hardest person to seduce is yourself," says Schwartz. "You have to get in to the right mindset, get over yourself and think that you are desirable. And once you do that... someone else will think that too." soundoff (1,147 Responses)1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Next »Leave a Reply to canadian pills online
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Eww, old people making whoopie. Grodie.
my thoughts exactly! ewwwwwwwwwwww!
I am a male in his late 60s. I still having functioning plumbing and look like I'm in my 50s with no front porch, dunlop, significant wrinkling, or severe loss of muscularity. The problem is that too many females in my age group do not retain their female structure. Most turn into blobs, look like men (with those helmet haircuts), or lose their feminine features. It's indeed tough finding a partner that one is really attracted to in these twilight years. BTW, don't give me any crap about emotional or non physical connections. Physical attraction (chemistry) is always a prerequisite to romance!
I'm not old, but do have this to say in answer to the "Ewww". Want an "eww"?
*Next time you kiss somebody and stick your tongue into their skull, imagine that the only difference between how they look now and a hundred years from now is the flesh between your tongue and their bones.
*Next time you "do it", same thing. You're basically just penetrating the fleshy walls of their pelvic bones.
We're all a bunch of walking dead people doing the dirty with each other's bones.
I'm 65, better ripped than the fat kids at my gym, and get wood on demand. I'll be getting tail long after most of you turned into balls of lard.
Folks can be in denial of their true human desires...
"A Viagra Moment."
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To paraphrase the famous old tombstone: Don't laugh: As you are now, they once were, as they are now, you will be.
Joe Blow from Co-lo-ra-do: Nice to know yer into skullfocking. TMi
I thought it meant the 1970's thru the 1990's I say hell yes, I was tearin it up through all them years and beyond. Boing
RadTech01, Some day, you can look in the mirror and see if you want to say "Eww" at yourself. Getting older is much better than the only other alternative available.
lol at Bill's ocmment – srsly funny
Do you know what is even more grotesque? Bigotry.
For more people than want to admit, life sucks from start to finish.
Bill, you are the man! Ditto for me at 53! May you and I have many "long" and satisfying years with our respective partners!
Hopefully, you never will get old.
too funny – you are probably some fat old middle aged slob that looks like chit – and i imagine evoke that same sentiment from women that would be put through the horror of kissing "you"..........:)
Joe in Colorado - brilliant and the truth as well as a wonderful image if you ever panic that lust has eaten us animals up. We still carry around a lot of that baggage from our animal days, and it's a real drag if you're trying to reach a spiritual orbit. I put it away in my late 60s because I never really had a steady partner - never mind a lover - got tired of running around just to satisfy my promiscuity, and besides, God threated to castrate me if I didn't wise up - finally!
quote: "The hardest person to seduce is yourself," says Schwartz
I'd have to disagree......
TMi
Easiest person to seduce is oneself
Getting divorced from your right hand involves no legal fees, phony accusations, court costs, or court-ordered judgments. But as soon as you even become interested in someone else, you take your life in your hands, and hand over all your legal rights to someone else. As long as we have a legal system that treats harmless socialization in such a predatory or criminalizing way, we will never be able to convince the people of Afghanistan or Iraq (and a growing list of other countries) that we are fighting to give them freedom. They don't want the kind of freedom we have here in America. They will fight to resist it, not because they are ignorant of the American way of life, but because they know all too well what it is. They don't believe our propaganda, because it is so far-removed from reality, and it is only our own leaders who believe it. If we want to end these wars quickly and on anything close to favorable terms, we'd better wake up fast and stop criminalizing love. We'd better knock off the growing Orwellian social estrangement within our entire society. We'd better stop the blurring of the definitions as to what is only objectionable but entirely legal behavior, as opposed to what is objectionable and illegal, and we'd better stop prosecuting anything and everything that anyone considers objectionable. We'd better stop giving estranged spouses and ex-lovers and malicious con-artists the right to legislate on a dime. Otherwise we will be asking our military to fight and risk their lives, or lay down their lives, in order to defend a freedom which no longer exists. We will also be asking our brave men in uniform to fight to protect a society which has apparently decided not to do away with the poison of racism, but rather to replace race-bigotry with age-bigotry – the new taxpayer-funded prejudice, courtesy of public education, all paid for by old fogies who wouldn't be allowed past the reception desk at one of these hate-speech factories. Look, in order for America to even come close to winning these wars, we need to rebuild our society into one that is both worth fighting for, and worth living in. And we need to do that now, by all means necessary. The failed social experiments do not deserve to be supported by tax dollars forever. And failed social experiments add up to a failed society, which rules out such concepts as respect for elders. In all the advancing economies of the world – the tigers of Asia – older people and the national culture are generally treated with the same type of respect that we Americans seem to reserve for brainless athletes and the rest of the national unkultur. That could be why we are no longer an advancing economy – we are printing money to try to rescue a sinking ship, because our political leaders lack the guts to do what needs to be done.
Yo, RadTech01, where do you think old people come from? Young people! Don't knock it till you try it!
they just Ignorant TROLLS
Trolls create jobs for mods, NOT Republicans.
viagra is a recreational drug.
Yeah but how old are the women, are they old too or are they the young women paying for their college with money their paid by old guys?
I'm a 54 y.o. male and my wife of 4 years is a very hot 24 y.o. I'm not wealthy nor good looking, just very lucky. We manage to "hook up" at least 10 xs/ week and we have a 3 y.o. together, planning another. If I ever have any plumbing issues or lack in interest she will be welcome to play elsewhere.
p.s. her college is paid for by her 90 y.o. grandfather.
Yeah, feel proud about that Greyola. You're robbing your children of a father. You'll be in your 70's by the time they graduate high school. Maybe one day you'll get to see your daughter hook up with some old fart like yourself.
"Jealous much" -the wife. But really, on a serious note (still the wife) I have spoken to several various girls who had older fathers and said they wouldn't have traded the quality time they had with their fathers for anything. While my friend's husbands are working day and night to save money to retire, my husband spends as much time with us as possible. Yes he is going to be older when our daughter graduates (which is a long time from now), but I don't know about you, but my grandfather is still very much alive and well and was much older when I graduated. I have a great relationship with him. And my husband will be able to retire while I work and spend lots of time with my daughter as she grows up. I'm sorry, but I couldn't NOT respond to you comment. Plus, somebody has to stick up for the other people in similar situation, because they do exist. Join the club and go find yourself a cougar! 😉
26 y.o male, who are you to judge? I'm in my 40s and my wife and I just had our first child (first for both of us). If the two of them are happy, then where do you, or anyone else, get off judging? Or are you just jealous because he actually managed to find a woman and that still eludes you?
Do you mean "they're paid"? Speaking of college, or anything else that requires money, I have this to say to you: If you don't like old guys, then don't accept any cash or change that has any pictures of old guys on it, and don't ever ask an older employer for a job. As to the writer who said that the only reason females get involved with older guys is for the money, I have news for you: 96% of females get involved with older guys. Those who never do, get involved only with each other. Replace the word "older" with "Black", and you will see how blatant shockingly bigoted age-ism has become. Would these anti-elder comments be tolerated, or even permitted to be posted, if they were anti-black instead of anti-elder, all other things being equal? Of course not!
26yomale – seems like you a tad jealous ...... Ill bet if you saved up some money, you might get a woman for a few hours.
and........many kids from 16 year olds never have a parent.
btw – I am 32!
everyone does the wild thing!
I do not need "VIAGRA" my stimulus and inspiration comes from my best friend; my WIFE.
🙂 I like when people marry their best friend
Tony, she inspires me too, Huh-Huh.
That totally made me smile, that's really sweet 🙂
Thanks, Tony. I was starting to think there were none like you. 🙂
im 60 and im happily doing it with 30 year old secretaries who are trying to get by in life.
Congratulations creeper!
And they are laughing all the way to the bank.
Congratulations. Better think about how you're going to feel about that when you're lying on your death bed. I'd be worrying about where my soul is going while I still had time if i were you.
Congrats. That is how I am going to roll when I am that age. Of course a lot of women are disgusted by this idea. Coincidentally they are also probably not very attractive anymore. Envy masquerading as morality as per usual.
Sheila, you get to determine where people go after they die? Maybe you should read your own Bible and "judge not lest ye be judged."
In response to the comment below, why would God (an elder if there ever was one) judge people on the basis of anti-elder bigotry? If you are basing the comment about the afterlife on the Bible, read the book of Ruth (Verse 3:10) Nothing in the Bible condemns or even disparages socialization or "knowing" between age categories. Nothing in any of the world's religions do that, except for the new, made-up, statist religion of political correctness, which seems to get all the taxpayer support it needs to proselytize and to spread its fake values of age-bigotry. This is one of the absolute worst violations of "separation of religion and state" of our times
Good day, Mr Clinton
oh yeah...i also have a massive dong. All you youngins are no match for me boys. I can satisfy women like OMG style.
OMG! You're 60? Fat chance.
Gee Wiz...... Grandpappi gettin' more play than me, and I'm only 28!
Well, you can always date Mr Hand, Huh-Huh!
Mr hand? you mean PALMala HANDerson
Disturbing! Of course, I'm against viagra for medicare patients cause I don't want my tax money going to giving an 80 year old man a hard-on.
There you have it – age discrimination. There is no objection to her tax money being used for the purpose of giving younger men, from the White House on down, the same tax-subsidized benefit.
I wonder why i can't get laid. Old rich farts don't wanna hangup the boots.
I think by the time you reach 70 you need to hang it up. lol
Oh yeah, you say that now, just wait until YOU reach 70.
Getting older each day is a privilege....hope you never lose it.
"Tell me, was it more of a hold up than a stick up?" -Grumpier old Men.
Does the name of our cousins bonobo come to mind?
Bonobos are awesome and you are awesome for knowing about them
Now that I know this, when my wife turns 80, I'm gunna trade her in for two 40's!
You'll be dead by then dude, 'cuz she's reading this and drawing up the papers right now.
She'll out live you by 20 years and be with a 65 year old when she's 80.
Why not four 20's?
Older men know what they're doing and have more going for them than younger men. It's one of the reasons I think people should wait until they're at least 30 to get married so they'lll have enough life experience to know what they want from themselves and their partner.
My husband is twenty years older then I, and he's made me extremely happy in every way for the past two decades. I'm just sorry that I had to put up with the craziness of dating younger men when I was young and foolish myself before I found him!
plus you get the added benefit that he'll probably kick it pretty soon and leave you a nice hunk of change! it's a win for both parties.
Sugar daddy eh? Happy with someone my own generation; good thing dad loved me so I wouldn't go thru life seeking out another father
According to Aristotle, who was the world's pre-eminent natural scientist of his times, the ideal age for marriage for men is 36, and the ideal age for women is 18. If what Aristotle wrote still has any validity, then the ideal age for marriage is 2,336 (presuming that what he said held true as based on his own direct observation of individuals who he knew of) but the ideal age for women to begin marriage, in the opinion of those 2,336 year old men who have survived from Aristotle's time to ours, is probably still 18.
80's and 90's superduper ewwww!!!
... brings new meaning to the term, "snapping the carrot".
Wow! I always suspected that something was really going on under that buldge. Heck...why not enjoy what comes naturally until your golden years! Ah! Would she be available? That is the BIG question.
A condom dealer say old men do it when they are 80. My question: to whom? This is a bogus aritlce.
Like, who buys condoms from a dealer? Is this your local pot dealer?
Why is it that so many of the age-haters cannot spell?
Who's sleeping with all of these old men, ewww!! I'm sorry but i don't find older men attractive well George Clooney is an exception, I'd do him in a minute but he's not really that old. I'm talking 60, 70, and the wormy 80's ewww!!!!.
Time for your annual worm checkup, Donna.
Time goes by in the blink of an eye and for people like you it is filled with shocks. Everybody had physical issue coming, the last one is death. You're going to have a hard time getting old. I don't think you can handle it.
But Clooney will never do someone like you in 1000 years lol
You seem to have forgotten that there are more women in their 60s/70s/80s then there are men. Many of these men have probably been married to or living with their partner for years by the time they hit their 60s. Did you think there was some magic age when men or women all lost interest in this part of their life at the same time?
A hard time getting old? . . .don't think you can handle it? Your Freudian slip is showing.
How come the woman are left out of this equation? With the technology advancing as fast as it is men will soon be able to order a Cherry 5000 unit as in the movie. Women will be able to order their units also.
eww....young guys are where its at...I dont even want to think about some old dudes wrinkly old thing....gross...any chick that does an old dude is desperate...it means no young guy wants her
I agree old guys are gross why go with a old guy when there are so many younger ones. Just looking at their old man pants to accomodate their saggy self makes me ill. Old men smell like old men. Ugh
I've gotten BJs from some that said the same. Not the best I've ever had though.
If you really think old men are so detestable, then please figure out how much of your education was financed by them, and pay it all back with compound interest.
old guys, gross... the only reason young women do old guys is for money... thing is though, ladies, since all that men really care about is women's bodies, that's a-ok for them... they don't really care the woman could go do someone better tomorrow as long as she's giving it to him tonight for a little bit of outlet shopping tomorrow...
Then the reason why young females associate with males in their own age group is for the poverty, both financially and intellectually. Have you ever watched Maury "You ARE the father!" Povich? He actually is more appealing than most of the overrated young non-talents on his show, although he is three times their age.
I'm 73, have a 23" dong and do it daily.
Right, a dong and no legs ... nice try, hoppy.
Be careful, you're gonna hurt some young thang.
Well, so much for my lobido tonight! Did not need a news story about this! Just gross!
Your lobidio needed a lobodectomy anyway.
CNN, EXCUSE ME????? Don't you know kids troll CNN looking for articles for current events projects for school? Would you want YOUR 12-year-old finding articles like this?
let's pray that cnn never does an article about this website called google then, for the childrens' sake!
Ohh noo Jennay! Kids also get on...oh no... GOOGLE! AHHHH! Requesting 3rd party help on public message boards, due to laziness, is an indicator that you lack talent in the realm of parenting by not getting of your @ss and being one yourself.
Uhhh ... Jenny? Yours are banging Granny RiGHT NOW, Huh-Huh!
Who on earth is assigning kids to examine CNN? That's sick.
They're perfectly capable of writing articles like this. What about this do you find objectionable, the age factor? It couldn't be anything else – otherwise you'd be objecting to every form of advertising, and to the proceedings of the US Senate (remember 1999) and to the course content which 12 year olds and younger are exposed to in school.
What about WOMEN? Only men and their satisfaction matter in these studies?
I'll be your Candy-Licker ladies. I got you covered...
What ever happened to monogamy?
Being Confident about oneself again is very attractive to others. Wow what a revelation!!! Coming off a 29 year marriage w/4kids I had heart ripped out by Ex. Its been a long 3-years getting over her. I see the light at the tunnels end. Feel lucky dating some great women. The Heart will let me know when its ready for "real" love (The stuff between the ears that is). The other stuff is frosting on the cake. Maybe a second family-God willing and the river don't rise....Been there done that. Remember, Parenting is not for the faint of heart
I hope your pick up line is "What is your definition of marriage?" Why waste time? If she ridicules the question, or if her definition of marriage is in any way challenging to your sense of well-being and sanity, RUN LIKE HELL to get out of the tunnel as fast as you can, because that particular light is an oncoming train. If her definition of marriage is interesting and appealing to you, then go ahead and buy her a cup of coffee.
Only the men are happy?
E..............your funny
apparently so. or they didn't care enough to find out about the women. or both.
E, i Eio.
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I certainly hope I'm doing it @ 70-80-90....
My friends and I refer to it as geriatric hoohoo.
Once your pubes turn gray, it's time to hang it up in my opinion.
Uhhh ... like, on what? Your nose?
Sad to me that we men just love having it and doing it forever. Women just seem to get real uninterested.
Uhhh ... then like, why is your best friend always smiling around you?
What comes out when they ejaculate? Expired semen? Air? Lentles?
Children. Have you heard of US Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas?
IM 36 & ONLY GET TAIL ABOUT 3 TIMES A MONTH, MAYBE I WILL GET BETTER WITH AGE.
Uhhh, I wouldn't bragg about that, Huh Huh!
Folks can be in denial of their true human desires...
"A Viagra Moment."
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Uhhh, Huh-Huh ... like, when old people screw, uh, do they like make old babies?
It is a scientific fact that if a younger female marries a much older man, her children are guaranteed to be free of life-truncating genetic conditions (due to her husband's genes, at least) that might unknowingly be passed on by a younger male partner (who might not have reached his natural age of hastened mortality yet). In America, we have been breeding for stupidity, by ruling out men on the basis of age. What we ought to be doing, once we realize what we have done to our country, and how far we have to go to catch up with the rest of the world, is breeding for intelligence and good disposition. Then the females will start disqualifying potential husbands on the basis of the male stupidity factor rather than the male age factor. But that will never happen as long as the public schools are run the way they are.
Well, whatever rocks their boats...more power to'em, I say...
Well, the responses validate my belief that the vast majority of posters on CNN are still in their early teens.
What are you doing here, Grandpa?
You want to see HOT check out http://www.bobdelmonteque.com He is one of the hottest men out there and he is in his eighties. Unbelievable! I'd do him.
OMG!!!
I am a 65 year old woman, single. My very good close friend is a 62 year old man. Do we look like we did at 30, of course not, but when we have the opportunity to share a few days (or nights) together we make love like no 30 year old has ever conceived of. Sometimes 3 or 4 times a night. No drugs required. Eat your heart out little tight bodied kiddies!
Mom!!! Is that you!?? OH MY GOD!!!
Having slept with women who were in their teens, twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties (an I was also at those ages at the time), I believe that a woman in her forties is sensually most incredible of all. You younger women are smart and lovely, but imagine how much smarter you will be in ten or twenty years. Imagine yourself, but twice as charming and three times as wise as you are now. You younger women are just opening buds, but the full flower of womanhood is just wonderful.
Don't try it with mules. They just kick you out of bed. Sheep are much better.
Hey you two
I was once like you
And I like to do the wild thing
Wild thing
Gene Pool....
Come swim in mine, baby
That viagra is of the devil.
When forks were invented in France hundreds of years ago, preachers said the same thing.
OMG do I have to read and hear about old old old people getting it on?
What is this world coming to?
Please don't show me your personals, especially after you look like the dirty laundry.
Thank you very much I don't need some old hag as my lover.