March 9, 2010 -- Better health translates into better sex lives, with healthy
people more likely to engage in sex (and good sex at that) and to express
an interest in sex, new research finds.
This association held firm into middle-age and later life as well, according
to the study by University of Chicago researchers.
The authors of the study, published in the March 10 issue of BMJ, also
created a novel measure called "sexually active life expectancy."
According to this new measure, men aged 55 could expect another
15 years of sex while women of the same age could expect 10.6 more
active years.
Overall, however, more men reported a satisfying sex life than women,
a chasm that widened as people aged.