May 10
15
Financial Stress Lessening Sex for 45 Year Olds and Up?
Surveys and conventional wisdom in the past have showed us that those that are in their forties and above often enjoy active, uninhibited sex lives. While we tend to think of wild, hot sex as something that only twenty somethings enjoy sometimes, it’s really the opposite, we become more uninhibited and more able to enjoy sex as we get older, and our forties, especially for women, is when we tend to “ripen” for great sexual experiences.
Female sexual enhancement becomes very easy in our forties, because of a couple of things. First, women are less inhibited and worried about what others might think of her at this age, she is also more experienced and knows what she likes, and she also has hormones working in her favor as well. While men tend to hit their sexual peaks in their twenties, women tend to hit their sexual peaks in their forties. Seems unfair, doesn’t it? But that’s the way mother nature has seen it fit for one reason or another, so we have to live with it.
When I think of myself, a woman in her mid thirties, I remember having some great sex when I was in my twenties, but I didn’t necessarily know what I was doing. I had never really given men good fellatio, and I never really knew how to ask a man to give me good oral either. I didn’t know what I wanted in terms of foreplay, and what kind of sex pleased me the most, and I certainly wasn’t sure that what I was doing was pleasing my partner either.
Now, in my mid thirties, I’ve experimented enough to be much more confident about my sexual prowess, and so I’ve released a lot of those inhibitions and can enjoy myself more now. I’m looking forward to my forties actually! It’s just a shame that when I look in the mirror, I look different than that twenty year old body 
This conventional wisdom that we still enjoy sex immensely and abundantly at 45 and after has seemed to take a turn – and not for the better either. Apparently when surveyed now, people have answered that they don’t enjoy sex as often and they sited financial stress as the reason. This economy not only has affected a lot of other things, but apparently the new reality in the economy has also affected our dang sex lives!
It’s really too bad, but unfortunately a lot of men in this age bracket, and women, were affected by things like layoffs, and they were at such an age that they were paid very well and have tougher times finding comparable replacement jobs. I know so many people going through this still….it’s a shame, but maybe we just need to get out there and buy more sexual enhancement aids so at least that great, stress relieving part of our lives isn’t stymied so much!
