PrintBy Dorian Wagner
Senior Copy Editor
Apparently, Grandma and Grandpa are putting us all to shame…
That’s because 70-year-olds are having sex more often now than they did 30 years ago, according to a study led by Nils Beckman of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. And not only are they getting it on more, women are reported being more satisfied.
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So what’s the secret? Our first instinct was to think it had something to do with those “happy” pills so widely available now for men, but the researchers found that it’s really about attitude. The elderly are becoming more open-minded and positive about sex, the study found.
The researchers looked at the sex lives of four groups of 70-year-olds from 1971 to 2001. The number of men who reported being sexually active rose from 52 to 68 percent since the ’70s. The number of women shot up from 30 to 54 percent during the same time period.
What may give us women something even better to look forward to is that elderly women report being more satisfied. That is, more women report having an orgasm during sex than before and, thankfully, less are revealing they’d never had one.
So there it is: Something to look forward to as we age. Maybe getting a few wrinkles and a couple gray hairs isn’t so bad after all…
Here’s to only being as old as you feel!
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