A new study was conducted to reveal the nuances of sexuality in the elderly and the study found that many senior citizens actually have very rewarding sexual lives.
“Individuals with strong, functioning sexual and intimate relationships will have better trajectories of health and well-being than those whose relationships function less well or who lack such relationships,” wrote Linda J. Waite of the University of Chicago in a special supplemental issue of The Journals of Gerontology.

The studies in this journal issue were part of the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project and were conducted in 2005 and 2006 at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
“One of the most noteworthy features of reports of sexual problems is their relative similarity across all age groups,” Waite wrote. “If [women] continue to be sexually active they appear not to be much more likely to have problems with sexual function at older than at younger ages … sexually active older men seem to function at much the same level as sexually active younger men, with a few exceptions, not all of which favor younger men.”