Impact Of Aging, Health Guide

The effects of aging on sex and sexuality

It’s a simple fact: sex changes as we age. When we’re young we have tons of energy but no experience. Once we’re older we gain that experience, but trade off the ‘rabbit response’ (well some of us do). But there’s a lot more to it than just that.

Many things affect us as we age, both physical and psychological. Hormonal changes can alter our levels of sexual desire over various stages of life. Testosterone production can decrease with various health conditions as well as being the side effect of many heart and blood pressure medications. In these cases it’s not the age that matters, but the hormone testosterone that needs to be replenished. Replace the testosterone, and many men see reinforced sex drive and penile performance.

Your energy levels also change over time. When you are a teenager with ‘raging hormones’ you experience sex at different energy levels than what you experience in your mid fifties. Although the style of sex may change, as well it probably should if just for safety reasons, the quality can even increase as we better learn our bodies’ responses (and those of our partners).

Not only do our bodies change over time, but a lifetime of experiences can change what sex means to us over time, and at various stages in our lives. It’s natural to feel changes to how we view sex, and what we get out of it. But while some things change, others remain steady. Our family and friends, who helped mould us as we grew, helped seed many values and beliefs that we carry through adulthood into our elder years.

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