Well, duh!  Recent surveys and studies show something that maybe we all weren’t 100% aware of, especially as we get older and some of us get used to not having a whole lot of sex with out spouses or long time partners.  Or maybe you’re like George Clooney - lucky bastard - and you just screw around with whomever you want, wandering throug life miraculously unattached and single.

These surveys were all conducted earlier in the year 2006, an involved views and questions on sexual health and happiness for 40-80 year old men and women.

The University of Chicago sponsored the most recent study/survey in 29 countries and snagged 27,000 participants. What did they find? 

That subjective feelings of a sexual sense of well-being were strongly related to overall “life happiness” for both men and women across the world, at least the US that is, which is all we’re really concerned about since most of my readers are in the US! 

Men reported at least 10% above what women reported as believing that sexual happiness had a strong impact on happiness and feelings of well being in other areas of their lives.  While that’s no shock, since men’s thoughts and actions do tend to be more dominated by sexual intentions than women, it’s still kind of shocking to know that even the older we get, we still focus on sexual contentment and desire-fulfilling as a major player in the key to happiness.

Other Interesting Study Outcomes :

Baby boomers, as the now fifty somethings genre is so affectionately named, grew up in a time of sex, drugs, and rock and roll and surveyors found that much of the same attitude prevails with that group of people (another shock, the only aging hippies I know are now straight laced and all about monogamy, but what do I know, I live in Ohio).

While not all baby boomers indulged in these free love activities and the concept of promiscuous behavior being ok, many of them did. and a lot of them grew up in an age of increasing birth control awareness, and the availability of the birth control pill, which didn’t prevent STD’s but allowed women to more freely pursue sexual activity without the threat of pregnancy.  This era and the prevalence of birth control, helped to mold attitudes on sex, and as boomers have aged, there has been more of a tolerance for drugs and products to enhance sexual performance.