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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 --- 51 days ago http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/07/grannies-gone-wild.ht
| It might be best to knock first before opening your grandparents' door. Septuagenarians are shagging more than ever, according to a new study of several hundred 70-year-old residents of Gothenburg, Sweden. And women, at least, now have a better time in bed, compared to 70-year-olds born a generation earlier, according to surveys of several groups of elderly men and women taken at health examinations in the 1970s, 1990s and 2000s. The study appears today on the British Medical Journal website (DOI: 10.1136/bmj.a279). A quick run-down of the results: Today, 40% more men report being sexually active than they did in the early 1970s (66% today vs 47% in the 70s), and the rise is even more dramatic for women, with the percentage nearly tripling from 12% three decades ago to 34% today. Older men and women also report having better sex lives in the 21st century. More elderly women said their sexual satisfaction was high in the early 2000s compared to the 1970s (41 vs 64%), and fewer women now claim they can't get no satisfaction. The researchers noted a similar trend in men, but the difference was not statistically significant (this is the BMJ , after all). Men suffered less impotence, as well (one wonders whether a certain blue pill explains that trend). Yet some things never change: premature ejaculation afflicted 8 out of every 100 elderly men in both 1976 and 2000. The lead author, a doctoral student at the University of Gothenburg n ... |
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