"study": Healthier men want more sex for more years Options

[neocon316]

Healthier men want more sex for more years
By Ashley Fantz, CNN
March 9, 2010 7:18 p.m. EST
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Healthier men, no matter their age, are going to have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women.

And a healthier sex life could mean a longer life.

That's according to a paper written by University of Chicago researchers that was published Tuesday in the British Medical Journal. While the supposition that men think about sex more than women isn't new, the paper's findings have wider implication for attitudes toward public health and how patients respond to doctors' advice, said Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and geriatric medicine who spearheaded the research.

"If you are a man diagnosed with diabetes or high blood pressure and I tell you that you need to lose weight and take medication, and I can say the benefit is five extra years of sex life, you might be more inclined to do what I tell you," she explained.

Lindau said that women generally reported wanting less sex or receiving it less often for three reasons: Women outlive men by an average of five to six years and without a partner, women are less likely to engage in sex. Secondly, there's a Western cultural acceptance -- and removal of stigma -- of men who have erectile dysfunction and have turned to relatively recently marketed drugs such as Viagra; women don't have that.

"Also, there's a difference in how we treat women for other diseases that affect their sexual desire," Lindau said. "If a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer and she has, for example, her breasts removed, and we never counsel her about her sexual function, we start to realize how many years of life she's losing. Not doing those things could mean 10 years of lost sexual activity."

There are no FDA approved treatments for female sexual dysfunction other than estrogen to treat pain with intercourse, she said.

Lindau's paper was sponsored by the nonprofit Institute of Medicine.

The paper considers data from two previously published studies that included more than 6,000 men and women, split into two co-ed groups: The first was age 25 to 74. The second group was age 57 to 85. Ninety-eight percent of participants reported having sexual partners only of the opposite sex, she said. Roughly 80 percent of men and 65 percent of women in the study were married or living with a partner.

None of the study's participants was in a nursing home.

Questions were presented that asked them to give their relationship status and rate their health and the quality of their sex life from poor to excellent.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/09/healthy.sex/
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Healthier men, no matter their age, are going to have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women.

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[pict]

Well, it's exercise, right?

[NavyNewfy]

Well, it's exercise, right?

Yes, an exercise in futility as we get older.......

[pict]

Yes, an exercise in futility as we get older.......

Considering your screen name, maybe you should buy a water bed.

[MADGestic]

Excellent was defined not by the number of times someone had sex but the emotional and physical satisfaction of the experience…

I’m the best I ever had.

[Howsithangin]

this is news? (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/headscratch.gif)

[mjperry51]

Excellent was defined not by the number of times someone had sex but the emotional and physical satisfaction of the experience…

I'm the best I ever had.

A legend in your own mind. . . .

[Jax]

Duh?

[NavyNewfy]

Considering your screen name, maybe you should buy a water bed.

I thought as we get older water in the bed was normal. But I guess that "depends".....

[wag-a-muffin]

Healthier men want more sex for more years
Healthier men, no matter their age, are going to have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women.

Well, duh!

ETA: Sorry Jax and Howsit

This post has been edited by wag-a-muffin: Mar 10 2010, 09:21 AM

[r12driver]

As a healthy male who just married a beautiful woman 20 years younger than myself, I just suddenly saw an increase in life expectancy! (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[oki]

As a healthy male who just married a beautiful woman 20 years younger than myself, I just suddenly saw an increase in life expectancy! (IMG:http://www.rightnation.us/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

When I hear jungle noises at night coming from your direction I will understand the reason.....

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Congratulations, may you both have a long happy and healthy life together.

Oki