SEXUALITY & AGEING

 

It's almost a month, since I planned a content on this topic,
"Sexuality and Aging"

Whenever I start to talk about sex, I would never miss this phrase, "Like Food, shelter, clothes and love, Sex is also a basic need of a human"

We don't stay away from any of our needs as we age, we just have a change in the preferences!!!

However, there is a common assumptions that almost everybody has,
"Sexual life and experiences change with age"

According to several studies, it's not so,

It's been stated that, 

"For an healthy individual, ageing does nothing with sexual life and experiences" 

"The sexual interest gradually starts to drop from late 20s and is almost zero in the later ages"

"Several studies on women, supports that after Menopause,  almost 40% have an increased sexual urge as they don't have a fear of conception"

So what do you understand from the above?

We humans hit through a different phase of life and in each our goals, roles and responsibilities varies and adds on.
It's not age that corresponds to changes,  it's the triad of Age-Health & Preference

The following are the factors that truly contribute to sexuality as you age,

1. ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES that adds on with age
2. WORK LOAD AND STRESS which is being a daily part of living
3. HEALTH FACTORS ( Metabolic/Infective/ Hormonal/Any other cause) or simply just any pain, anywhere in the body
4. LABOUR and BIRTHING ( A bad birth experience may even lead to an aversion to sex post birth which may even be to the rest of the life)
5. PRE MENOPAUSE OR MENOPAUSE, which results to decreased arousal, Lack of lubrication which can further lead to a painful intercourse and they may stay away from making love
6. LACK OF COMMUNICATION
7. LACK OF STIMULATION (which is common irrespective of gender)
8. LACK OF INTEREST
9. LACK OF SEXUAL URGE
10. CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICES
11. And the most important, LACK OF TIME AND PRIVACY

Ageing, does have some effect on the sexual life too, which is contributed by the hormones, age related changes to the musculoskeletal system,  History of chronic pain, Medications that interrupt with Reproductive and sexual hormones, Pelvic floor Laxity, Lack of sustaining erection and even Erectile Dysfunction.

So it goes this way, it's a triad of various sub factors that contribute to your sexual interest and age doesn't directly feature to it!

Let me conclude this way,

When it comes to sex and Love making,  "Need is the key & that need may vary or refrain to anyone irrespective of age"

-Mubeena Nahimullah

MPT (O/G)*

PGD ( Sports fitness and Nutrition)*

Certified Childbirth Educator 

Female Sexual and Reproductive Rehab Therapist

 Founder- WOW_WONDER_WOMEN

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