All those impulses and desires, for physical touch, for sex, for companionship, they're all the same. Research shows many women in their 60s, 70s and 80s have more time for sex than ever before. Credit: Getty images. Maybe it's morphed into something a bit more subtle. Twice divorced and with her current partner for three years, Sarah says that while it's largely accepted that men will continue to have sexual feelings as they age, the same isn't true for older women.
For women, sexuality changes with age but doesn’t disappear
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Skip navigation! Story from Sex. Even though our mothers and grandmothers arguably pioneered the sexual revolution , we're constantly inundated with think pieces on the love and sex lives of the to set. As a result, we know very little of how these women are getting it on and how their sex drives change over time. As a married woman approaching her mids, I have a lot of questions.
Older women want sex more, not less
When I was 11 years old, my mother silently snuck into my bedroom. Under the cover of midnight, she sat cross-legged at the end of my bed and proceeded to give me The Talk, although it was more of a whisper. Instead of focusing on the anatomy of sex — the biological prophecies by which, some say, our bodies were made to meld into one — my mother chose to emphasize pleasure. She spoke about the importance of passion: pursuing it, asking for it and finding it within yourself. Society has a tendency to perpetuate this idea that the older a woman grows, the more she yearns for the beauty of her youth.






But it does make me wonder about the future. Is there a time when sex will no longer be on the agenda? And can we—should we—change that? Shifren points out that the research letter did not find that sex was more satisfying for women who stated it was important to them, just that they were more likely to remain sexually active. There are many reasons why sex may slow down for women when they get older, not least of which is menopause.
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