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Sex in your 60's
Good news: recent research reveals that sex is the secret ingredient for successful ageing. Dr Merryn Gott from Sheffield University conducted a study examining the importance of sexual relationships and sexual health among older people. The findings of Dr Gott's study suggest that not only does sex get better with age, but older people who are having sex regularly have better physical and mental health than their chaste counterparts.
This revelation probably comes as a surprise to many people. Sex is the province of the young. There is something shocking about the idea that someone with a free bus pass is still contemplating rides of another sort. Sex in your thirties, forties or even fifties is okay. Look at Madonna, Jerry Hall and Helen Mirren - don't tell me they're not active between the sheets. But sex when you are over 60? Surely things will have dried up, sealed over. Surely the desire for sex will have been replaced by a weakness for beige anoraks and trips around stately homes. Many of us have grown up with the idea that anyone over 60 who still has sex must be a dirty old man or woman. Crinkly sex is at best unseemly, and at worst downright repulsive.
Dr Gott believes that our aversion to the idea that older people might enjoy and need sex is linked to our preconceptions. 'It has something to do with the stereotypes that have grown up around older people - we have a tendency to think of them as being asexual,' she says. This subject hasn't been researched in the past due to the assumption that older people would be unwilling and embarrassed to talk about sex. However, Dr Gott found that the older people were, the more prepared they were to talk about their feelings, and in fact, were often delighted to do so because no one had ever expressed an interest before.
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