Baby Boomers are reporting having the most fulfilling sex-lives in a new study.
After changing social attitudes to sex, the post-war generation is still enjoying the benefits of the sexual revolution. Respondents in long-term relations have reported having the best sex ever, but Baby Boomers who changed their partners in their forties are the most sexually active.
In the global study of sexual attitudes and behaviours, people in long term relationships report having the best sex. Austrians aged 40 to 80 claim having the highest satisfaction in love and in the bedroom. They are closely followed by the Canadians and the Swedes. Asian countries such as Japan, Taiwan and China rank the lowest. In Japan, only 15% of respondents were happy with their relationships.
Respondents who changed their partners after their 40's reported having more active sexual lives than their married counterparts. According to the urologist Clive Gingell,"a majority of men and women have sex up to their 80's." Study author and professor of sociology at the University of Chicago Professor Edward Laumann said people aged 40 to 80 actually "engaged in a significant amount of sex." He suggested this may well be a surprise to their children.
Almost 80% of respondents answered that they had sex in the previous 12 months. The doctor asserted that the social changes pushed by Baby Boomers had greatly changed people's attitude to sex. As a result, their sex lives have greatly improved.
Source: The Guardian, April 19, 2006, "Baby Boomers still get satisfaction in bed"
Afterthought: A little more than four decades ago, it was the arrival of a drug in the marketplace that triggered the sexual revolution.Before the advent of the birth-control pill, sex and procreation had been eternally, inseparably linked. After it, the link was pretty much optional. Momentous things ensued: chiefly women's liberation and the abortion controversy, all of them arguably the pill's indirect consequences, all of them reverberating to this day.And if all that can follow from a drug which simply made pregnancy less a matter of fate than of choice, what then to expect from a drug that does the same thing to passion itself? More at: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1759109,00.html