Sexual Guidelines

Often it is said that after 40 usually women lost their sex drive but a study of more than 2,000 U.S. women ages between 45 and 80 found 60% had been sexually active in their conjugal life. The researcher discovered 43% of the women got at least moderate sexual desire and such report challenge the conventional phenomenon that women lose interest generally in sex as a result of their own physical problems.

The researcher reported half of the sexually active participants told their overall sexual satisfaction and pleasure as moderate to high. Moreover, above one-quarter of participants age 65-year or older,  remained highly or moderately interested in sex, whereas more than one-third of the women in that age group had been sexually active in the last three months. On the other hand, among sexually inactive participants in the entire group, 39% thought the most ordinary reason was a lack of interest in sex, while 36% reported lack of a partner, 23% cited physical problems of their partner and 11% said a partner’s lack of interest. Only 9% of them reported being sexually inactive due to personal physical problems.

African-US women were more likely than white ones to report at least moderate desire, though less likely to get weekly sexual activity. The study revealed sexually active Latin women were more likely than white ones to get at least moderate sexual satisfaction. The research conducted by University of California-San Francisco and published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.