In a somewhat surprising, at least to me, especially with the rampant numbers of sexual dysfunction, survey, many people over the age of 57 and into their seventies and eighties report that they still have sex, and that they find sexuality and intimacy a very important part of being a functional human being.  If you ask me, when you’re in your older years, I’ve always thought it’s really the perfect timing to have a lot of sex, because if you’ve planned right, you’re probably retired and have a lot more free time on your hands.  Heck, some of these people are probably even a generous market segment for herbal male enhancement supplements, and why shouldn’t they be?

What better way to fill up that time than to have sex and lots of it.  It’s good for the heart, the mind and soul, so why not?  We tend to think of getting old as a death sentence to our sex life, and it really only has to be that way if we allow our minds to go in that direction.  If we allow ourselves to think of our bodies as an ever changing and interesting force of nature, rather than view an aging body as a bad or shameful thing, it’s amazing how freeing that can be to someone’s sexuality and points of view when it comes to intimacy. 

Now, for the unsurprising part.  While most of the people polled, who ranged from age 57 to around 85 years of age, did say they still had sex, there was an acknowledgement, or at least indication that the frequency of sex declines as the respondents got older.  With our bodies aging, so does our sexual appetite usually, so this is not surprising. 

Also, a fairly high number of participants said that they had experienced some sort of sexual problem or dysfunction, which is also not surprising, given the amount of attention male sexual dysfunction, and now, increasingly female sexual dysfunction and attention turned to female sexual enhancement products, has received from the medical and herbal male enhancement supplement community. 

The people in poor health did also report lower sexual intercourse or actiivty frequency, and so did the female respondents, but this is also characteristic of these population segments, so no surprise there.  What does this survey tell us about sexuality and age?  That we are still very sexual beings by nature, and that we will always crave intimacy in some way, regardless of our age.  We don’t magically lose those human qualities once we pass a certain age, as some people would have you believe. 

Are you one of the millions of Americans today who take a multivitamin?  I take a multivitamin, and I truly do believe that without the vitamin, my diet is missing several beneficial nutrients and vitamins that it would not otherwise have if I didn’t pop one of those little suckers every morning with my breakfast.  There are naysayers, of course, that say multivitamins do no good and you have to get all you nutrition and vitamins in the foods you eat and drinks you drink.

They don’t really understand though, that if you take a men’s multivitamin with your meals, you are increasing your absorption rate, and again still, if you are taking a high quality multivitamin supplement, the vitamins are designed for optimal absorption and to pass through the body being absorbed, rather than being ignored and passed as waste, as some other non-quality vitamins are.

It is also very important, I feel, that if you cannot chew your multivitamin, then make sure you get some other form of vitamin like a liquid one or something that is encapsulated that you can swallow whole, because if you do not chew your compact little vitamin (it’s not that hard, I’ve been doing it for years, trust me - you get used to it fairly quickly), it very well may pass through your body virtually unused and unabsorbed.

Chewing it makes the surface area smaller, and makes it easier for your digestive enzymes to tear apart and digest, so that the nutrients can then be passed through the body and later absorbed into the blood stream, where these little vitamins do their good work.  So, don’t believe the naysayers that say taking supplements does no good. 

Why then would we have drugs for all kinds of ailments today?  What, do they also have no effect?  Really, the thought process is ludicrous if you think about it!  Another thing to look into, is a solution for a problem that way too many men have to deal with that most find embarrassing and disheartening, and that is male hair loss.  Read out new page on male hair loss products and see how you can take natural supplements to help prevent future hair loss and regain the hair that you’ve lost throughout the years.  It’s interesting, because it’s natural, but it also contains the only FDA approved ingredient today for hair loss. 

Well, in a nutshell, yes.  When you don’t get enough sleep, certain parts of your body shut down, including your critical thinking patterns, concentration, sometimes your appetite, motor skills, and energy, and yes, this includes your sex drive.  Many times lack of sleep can really impact our sex drive, as well as our ability to sexually perform at peak levels. 

This is part of the reason we are seeing a spike in male sexual enhancement products that are designed to not only enhance a man’s sexual appetite, but also enhance his performance, by giving energy as well as helping to increase the blood flow to the penis, which is crucial in maintaining an erection, and getting an erection in the first place. 

So, if you are experiencing any type of sexual dysfunction problems such as lack of libido or inability to get or maintain an erection for very long, and you had never experienced these types of sexual problems in the past, look at how your life is going.  Are you burning the candle at both ends, working a lot, waking up too early and going to bed too late? 

This combination, which unfortunately is all too common in today’s goal and career oriented world, has really taken it’s toll on men and women’s sex lives, and we are consequently seeing a lot of relationship and marital strife, an increase in marriage counseling and sexual counseling, and a huge increase in business for natural male sexual enhancement and female sexual enhancement products, both natural and herbal like Deer Antler Plus, as well as medical such as Viagra (which consequently is actually used for both men and women). 

If you are burning the candle at both ends of the day, try relaxing, and try to get to bed so that you get at least 7-8 hours of sleep.  I know for me, I feel much more “in the mood” when I’m well rested and energetic, and this tends to be on the weekends, which is when I usually catch up on my sleep.  After all, who wants to have half hearted sex when they get home from a ten or eleven hour day of work?  Not many people! 

That’s why it is important, not only for your sexual well being, but your mental and physical well being that you take the time to rest.  Also, yoga and other relaxation techniques like this may be worth your time to look into.  Melatonin is an excellent natural sleep aid that has helped me many a time when I haven’t been able to sleep too. 

Female sexual enhancement is just now peeking it’s head out of the clouds that it had hidden behind for so long as more and more women are demanding the same attention at female sexuality problems, both medical and psychological, as men receive for erectile dysfunction of various sort, including impotence and premature ejaculation among others. 

Well, doctors and scientists have come up with something that was really known already in the medical community, it’s just that now it’s been put into practice - into a patch to be more specific, for women with waning libidos.  It’s a testosterone patch that is supposed to help women regain their pysiological drive and desire to have sex. 

It has been known that testosterone drives sexual cravings in both men and women, it’s just that men have an abundance of the hormone while women have smaller amounts of the hormone, thus attributing to their feminine characteristics and many times, less of a sex drive naturally than men tend to have.  Here’s how the testosterone patch for female sexual enhancement works.

It was found through placebo experiments that women who were pre menopausal and used the patch had significant spikes in their desire to have sexual intercourse, as well as an increased frequency of sex that they felt was satisfying and memorable, whereas before they may find it hard to sexually peek, and we all know that’s the most fun part about sex, whether you’re a man or a woman.

Apparently the women who experienced the increase in sexual activity averaged about 4 times the sex they had before they started on the patch, and most of them decided to continue on with the female sexual treatments since they did experience good results. No word about side effects, which I think might be fairly unsavory, since excess testosterone in women can product effects like hair growth in unwanted places and other hormone imbalances similar to those experienced by menopausal women, since testosterone takes a more dominant place over estrogen during this period and that is what sometimes accounts for the side effects that aren’t so fun.  In a way, it doesn’t make sense that this works so well for women, but it does! 

Apparently mental health professionals are concerned about the sexualization of young women in our culture, following up the likes of young women such as Paris Hilton and other young, wild teen stars and stars in their early twenties who are setting bad examples for young women and how they behave and present themselves.  Sure, it’s healthy for a woman to want to be an attractive woman and attract men, but it’s gone overboard these days into mass vanity and body image problems. 

It seems that young women who are in the media spotlight present themselves without the same class that women used to, and it’s rubbing off on our youth, especially with the likes of MySpace and other social online meeting places, where girls seem to feel pressure to post sexy pictures of themselves to get attention.

The outward problems that society has shown in young women and the examples that are being set that young girls are sex objects from a younger age, and that sexuality and “being sexy” means everything in the world these days is resulting in lower self esteem and body issues in much of the young women these days and is also resulting in less women doing “smart” things and acting smart, which seems to be another very annoying affect of the Paris Hilton phenomena.  Well, at least she stopped saying that stupid “that’s hot”, but she still has a long way to go in setting examples of what a real women should be.  Like smart and funny, and having more depth than a puddle for starters.

Others issues besides low self esteem that mental health professionals are saying this phenomena of hyper sexualization of young women is increased depression, and eating disorders to try to be like women who are in the spotlight, most of whom unfortunately seem to be taking after Skeletor at the moment. 

Even Angelina Jolie, who was once a beautiful, shapely woman is now promoting this deathly skinny image and sadly many young women are trying to emulate these looks and are torturing themselves to try to be that skinny, which if you ask me doesn’t look good and isn’t attractive at all in a woman.  I think for men, they just want a real woman, one who is smart and funny and keeps it light instead of taking herself too seriously all the time.  Some men do like their women dumb, but that’s all up to them! 

OK, so I know this is a blog for guys, about men’s health and sexuality, but every once in a while I will show my “feminine side” by talking about some news that some people might be surprised a guy knows, cares about, or knows any background of.  This is one such story!  Well, if any of you ever watched the show “Sex and the City” with Kim Catrall, Sarah Jessican Parker, and two other ladies who lended a little to the story but not as much as the two main characters, then you know that Sarah Jessica Parkers lover interest in the show is called Mr. Big. 

The Mr. Big character is played by actor Chris Noth, who currently is starring in one of the millions (seemingly) of Law and Orders series.  It was just announced that he has indeed signed on to be on the feature movie that is modeled after the popular HBO series.  It is probably the HBO series that earned HBO’s notoriety for excellent original television cable programming, because I think it actually was even before another great HBR series, The Sopranos. 

Well, the reason we’re talking about Mr. Big here may not be so obvious, but it does have to do with the male ego and penis size.  You see, everything about a man who is viewed as “manly” is “big”.  So, adequately enough, the shows producers decided to call the one guy that Carrie cannot get on the show, or nail down for some reason who seems unattainable and somehow perfect for her “Mr. Big”.  Meaning what, they’ve been asked, to which they reply whatever you think it might be. 

Well, when a guy is unattainable and the object of women’s affections, of course many times the saying goes that they must have a large penis, right?  Mr. Big is sort of based on that premise, as is his name, but everything else is big about him too.  His lifestyle, his ego and his paycheck.  And, well maybe his penis too! 

Well, we were pulling for the entertainment entrepreneur and business man, but Merv Griffin finally succumbed to prostate cancer after a long battle with the common male disease, at the age of 82.  Merv actually invented the modern game show pretty much, as we know it, with Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune on his esteemed Hollywood resume, and it made him one of the Forbes richest people several times over.  We’ll  miss you Merv.  Here’s to prostate health awareness. 

I just read some sad news that Merv Griffin may be finally succumbing to the late stages of prostate cancer at the age of 82.  Merv had battled with a diagnosis of the male disease back in 1996, and after he thought he was free and clear, he was declared to have the cancer back after a routine doctor’s visit just a few months ago.  Makes you wonder if you’d rather just not know at that point, which is something I’ve often thought about.  Would you really want to know if you had serious cancer recurrence, especially at the age of 82? 

I don’t know, sometimes it just seems that once people find out, that’s when they really start to go downhill, perhaps their mental state and the knowledge that they have cancer or have the cancer back lending to the relapse and the subsequent spread of cancer.  Of course, this knowledge/sickness link cannot be proven really, but there are many anecdotal stories that support this type of thought. 

Merv Griffin is perhaps best known for his role in the entertainment industry, or more specifically, the game show host and game show industry, and it seemed as if he didn’t age for years upon years.  Looking at a picture of him as recent as 2000, he still looked very good for being as old as he was then which would have been his mid seventies.  But unfortunately, prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men who are over the age of 40 and 50 years old, when the risk of developing prostate cancer dramatically intensifies as does other things that can start to happen to the male body. 

Let’s all hope Merv gets through this ok, and keeps his spirits about him on this journey, whether he is doing well physically or not.  Good luck Merv!  This is another reason why maintaining prostate health is so very important, especially as men age.  There are of course other things that one can do to help themselves out to prevent the occurrence of the disease as well, but taking a good prostate health supplement may help to replenish certain nutrients in the body that can be beneficial to keep the prostate healthy and cancer free. 

A new experimental-phase sex gel may be the ticket to helping prevent sexually transmitted diseases such as AIDS and other STD’s like gonorrhea, syphillis and other viral infectious diseases that are passed from partner to during sexual intercourse and also other types of sexual intimacy.  The preliminary studies involving the sexual lubricant, tentatively named “Viva” indicate that the sexual lubricating gel can actually inactivate the herpes virus as well as the HIV virus, or the virus that causes full blown AIDS (Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

The gel has not yet been tested on humans (at least that’s what the article I read said, or did not make mention of human testing yet), but it has been demonstrated to inhibit these viruses in animal testing thus far.  The way the sexual lubricant gel would work is that the man (this is supposed to only be said to work for heterosexual sexual intercourse for some reason), applies the lubricant to his penis before sexual intercourse, and this prevents the transmission of some STD’s because of the fact that it kills or inactivates the viruses that actually cause the STD before they enter the body through one of the most easily absorbed areas, the internal walls within the body, which can quickly and efficiently absorb many things, such as viruses. 

Nothing was really metnioned on how this works as a natural male sexual enhancement (pleasure enhancer), but presumably it is made in such a way that it is  actually a dual purpose lubricant and preventive medicine for STD’s. 

The main ingredient in the lubricant is said to be something called dendrimer, which is said to bind to viruses and flush them away, or inactivated them.  The main use of this product is supposed to be for nations like Africa, where the primary transmission of the rampant disease is said to be amongst heterosexuals, and this would work on them because it is specifically made for heterosexual use, and is supposed to only work for heterosexual intercourse. 

This could be a truly great invention on someone’s part, if it can solve what has seemed for so long to be a hopeless tragedy that occurs over in Africa, where rape is out of control, and wive’s tales like the fact that men can get rid of AIDS by sleeping with a virgin lead to even worse rape and a more rampant spread of this deadly disease.  Since expensive AIDS drugs are not available in Africa, most African’s end up dying a long, slow death from the disease, which takes hold of the immune system and wreaks havoc on the body’s functions when left untreated very easily. 

It’s hard for us to imagine that here, where AIDS is no longer an instant death sentence, and although inhibiting drugs like AZT are expensive, they are readily available.  But, unfortunately in third world countries they do not have this luxury nor do they have the luxury of top notch education to stop the spread, so at least this should be a lower cost alternative to prevent the widespread incidence of the disease over there. 

Well, this new little toy that women can use to enhance their sexual pleasure, with or without a partner, certainly capitablized on the popularity of the iPod MP3 player that seems to be in the hands of everyone from teens to old folks these days.  This new little sexual enhancement product for women is a neat little vibrator that has some unique features, and of course, a catchy name that may have women in Japan (that’s where the product was conceived and is being manufactured) thanking the makers for life if it does what it says it can.

Here’s why the name gPod seemed appropriate for this nifty little tool, which retails for approximately $243 and debuted at a huge sex toy show in Tokyo recently.  You can hook the device up to any music device, like an iPod or other MP3 music player, and the darn thing will actually respond to the music, switching things up, so to speak, with each different beat, sound of instrument it hears. I guess there may be something to rhythm and women sexually being fulfilled - at least that’s what I’ve heard before a couple million times!

The suggested use, and reason the product was conceived to work to respond to sounds, is because it can actually be hooked up to one’s cell phone, and a guy can be on the phone, talking to his girlfriend or wife, and having some intimate conversation, while the gPod responds to the inflections in his voice, and therefore responds to the woman’s need for different movements and pressures coming from the gPod down there, so that it can increase their sexual enhancement and pleasure.  Maybe having one of these things could help attract a woman, who knows!