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To age is not necessarily synonymous of sexual abstinence. According to a survey, several aged people who live in couple are sexually active, even after 80 years. Their secret? Health…

Led by American researchers by 3 000 people, the étude1 aimed to compare the evolution of the sexual activity through three groups of age, according to the state of health of the respondents.

According to the researchers, although the sexual activity decreases with age, the frequency of the sexual intercourse doesn’t lower in an important way before the age of 74 years, at people in health and living in couple.

Among the respondents living in couple and saying itself/themselves of it ” excellent” or of it ” good” health, several affirmed to take to the sexual pleasures: 73% in the slice of the 57 years to 64 years, 53% at the 65 years to 74 years, and 26% at the 75 years to 85 years.

More again, at the 75 years to 85 years, 54% of people saying itself/themselves active sustain to have two to three sexual relations per month. And close to the quarter (23%) affirms to have intimate reports once per week.

The portrait differs however at the aged people who live alone. They are sexually less active, more particularly the women. Only 4% of those that don’t live in couple affirm to have the sexual intercourse, against 22% of the men that don’t have any spouses.

The sex: not important for all

According to other results of the survey, the importance granted to the sexuality decreases with age: 41% of the 75 years to 85 years judge it ” non important”, compared to 25% at the 65 years to 74 years and to 15% at the 57 years to 64 years.

” These results represent what one lives in Quebec” very well, affirm the psychologist and sex therapist Jules Bureau that, at the age of 73 years, receives more patient in consultation2.

This professor reprocessed of sexology of the university from Quebec to Montreal (UQAM) says to note ” a stake aside from the progressive and constant” sexuality, at the 55 years to 85 years.

” It is deplorable because the sexual life should be a support to health and to longevity and one goes without some because of problems of health, as the unrests of raising, of lubrication, of orgasm, etc.”, he/it sustains.

To put the physicians in the stroke

According to him, the sexuality is part of the factors that influences our state of health at a time on a neurological, physiological and psychic level: ” Each of these measurements can return the person more in harmony with herself and can heighten the esteem of oneself”. And that, in spite of the pains that can afflict it with age, adds Jules Bureau.

Jules Bureau invites the physicians to participate in the sex education of the eldests in order to inform them of the kindness of the intimate reports on health. ” A physician’s encouragements to pursue his/her/its sexual life can become a powerful tool to take people to associate the sexuality to a good health”, underline the sex therapist.

Jules Bureau would have wished that the American survey is oriented more toward psychosocial aspects. ” He/it would have been interesting, for example, why some take to genital oral practices to know, and he/it doesn’t affirm other. And to know why, at those that stop practicing the penetration, one also stops all other sexual practice. ”

According to him, such information could have permitted to find orientations to privilege concerning sex education at the aged people. One could have given a larger sense to the sexuality that the one, primitive, bound to the only need of reproduction, he/it advances.

” We are not fundamentally driven by our hormones, but by the sense that we give to the things and the reality. If the sexuality can encourage the harmony between people, that widens the specter of the possibilities, it concludes. Of as much more that while being aged, one doesn’t have the ardor of youth anymore, but one has more time to explore the intimacy.

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