Does sexual desire and need for sex have to decrease with ageing in generally or is it individual thing? This worries me, because I am 35 now and I feel even more desire than I was before, but it seems to me that people of my age and older that I am not interested in sex as they were before. How ageing and sex are related?
Sex and aging has become an issue of growing popularity, but at the same time with changing dietary and activity patterns, and new medical treatments, many people in their senior years are relatively healthy and desirous of continuing an active life, including an active sex life. The topic of sexuality and aging is often treated with tremendous sentimentality or with derisive humor. It is hard for some people to conceive of sexual desire and passion among the elderly except in terms of lechery while perhaps receding in the popular imagination, the image of the "dirty old man" that chases after young women has not disappeared. Generally, research has found that age typically does not significantly diminish the need and desire for sex, that regular sexual activity is standard when a partner is available, and that most elderly believe that sex contributes to both physical and psychological health.