Age is just a number and a recent survey proves just that. A latest sex study shows that British men and women have satisfactory sex lives even at the age of 70.
The study was conducted on the sexual behavior of 15, 000 Britishers and it was found that they were more adventurous and didn't mind sleeping with multiple partners. The study also found that they were more open to the same-sex idea.
The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, first conducted in 1990, is repeated every decade. The current survey was conducted between September 2010 and August 2012.
The survey results found that 31 percent of men and 29 percent of women aged between 16 and 24 lost their virginity before the age of 16.
Further, men and women in the older category, ages between 65 and 74, were reported to have an active sex life. The statistics showed that 60 percent of the men and 42 percent of the women had ex with at least one opposite partner in the previous year.
"As men and women are living longer, have healthier lives and continue to have active sex lives well beyond their reproductive years, we need to view sexual health and wellbeing as an issue of lifelong importance," Lead author Dr Cath Mercer, from University College London, said, according to the Sky News.
The study also found that on an average lesser people were engaging in sexual activities than they used to. The reason is possibly recession, according to the researchers. And also fewer people are living together or are married.
The survey results showed that men and women do not mind having multiple sex partners. On average, females between the ages 16 and 44 have 7.7 partners and men have 11.7 sexual partners.
British women seem to be more liberal about sexual life now, the survey revealed. The number of women involved in same-sex has gone up from 1. 8 percent to 7.9 percent. Also the women seeing nothing wrong in a one-night stand has risen from 5.4 percent in 1990 to 13 percent.
"The change in women's behaviour across the three surveys has been remarkable. In some areas of sexual behaviour we have seen a narrowing of the gender gap, but in others we have seen women overtaking men in the diversity of their behaviour. These trends need to be seen against the backdrop of the profound changes in the position of women in society, the norms governing their lifestyles and media representations of female sexuality," said study co-author Professor Kaye Wellings, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
