{"id":17883,"date":"2017-07-13T18:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=17883"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:09:26","slug":"after-50-years-of-marriage-couples-have-more-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/after-50-years-of-marriage-couples-have-more-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"After 50 Years of Marriage, Some Couples Have More Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span> study indicates that older couples, including some who have been together for 50 years, still enjoy sex on a fairly regular basis. Fewer fights, greater trust, and medical advances cited as reasons for increased intimacy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t make the mistake of assuming that the 80-year-old couple down the street is having less sex than you!<\/p>\n

A study published in Archives of Sexual Behavior<\/em> found that many couples who celebrate a \u201cgolden anniversary\u201d (half a century of marriage) actually experience an increase in sexual activity.<\/p>\n

Why Would Sex Frequency Increase?<\/h3>\n

There are several possible reasons that couples married for 50 years may see a slight increase in sexual frequency.<\/p>\n

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  1. They fight less.<\/strong> One of the study\u2019s authors, Samuel Stroope, theorizes that couples who have been married for so long tend to fight less. \u201cAs people age, they tend to be more even-keeled, which may help cut down on marital conflict,\u201d says Stroope, \u201cand facilitate regular sexual activity into advanced age.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. They trust each other more.<\/strong> Long-lasting couples \u2014especially those still on their first marriage \u2014 are likely more trusting of each other. As Stroope points out, \u201cYou may have a higher level of trust when you feel that your spouse isn\u2019t going to go anywhere,\u201d he says. \u201cThe expectation that the relationship will continue may give you more reason to invest in the relationship \u2014 including in sexual aspects of the relationship.\u201d This may also explain why the study found that the increase in frequency doesn\u2019t apply to couples who remarry.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Advances in medicine,<\/strong> including erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, make sex possible for older men who might otherwise not be able to get and keep an erection suitable for intercourse.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        In addition to erectile dysfunction drugs, there are new medicines and treatments for other conditions and issues that tend to increase with age, such as incontinence, arthritis, prostate cancer, low testosterone, and low sex drive in women.<\/p>\n

        There is, of course, a big limitation to the study, as not very many couples make it to 50 years of marriage. That makes it hard to find a large sample of data.<\/p>\n

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        A study indicates that older couples, including some who have been together for 50 years, still enjoy sex on a fairly regular basis. Fewer fights, greater trust, and medical advances cited as reasons for increased intimacy. Don\u2019t make the mistake of assuming that the 80-year-old couple down the street is having less sex than you! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[22,23,400],"class_list":["post-17883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erectile-dysfunction","tag-ed","tag-erectile-dysfunction-2","tag-erectile-dysfunction-drugs"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t