Senior Sex Tips for Aging Couples

If you are like most senior citizens, sex has become a challenge. As many of you may have already experienced, sex in your sixties, seventies or eighties is nothing like the sex you experienced, when you were in your twenties. For one thing, body functions response times, may not be what they use to be. This can potentially make some aging adults, feel like a lesser person. Which generally leads to depression, and often times more medications that could inadvertently have a negative impact on your sex drive, and you don't even realize it. This is especially true in older men. When prescribed any new medications, be sure to talk to your doctor about the side effects. It's okay to ask your health care physician if a decrease sex drive is one such complication that goes along with taking a certain medication. If it is, well then talk with your doctor about trying another medication that won't effect your sex drive, or have them prescribe something to counteract the side effect. Bottomline- there are plenty of options out there. Don't be stuck in a rut, just because to afraid to ask.

A serious factor to consider when taking any medication, is that medications taken to treat depression, and other illnesses associated with aging, are known to cause a decrease in sex drive. It is important to maintain a good outlook on life, while paying close attention to what your body is telling you. Another important factor for aging seniors to remember, is to communicate freely with their sex partner. Many senior citizens grew up in an era, where it was taboo to openly discuss sex. Especially if the sex talk was focused around the needs, desires, or wants of the individual. Folks, if you hadn't noticed this is the twenty first century, and good communication between two aging partners, is a vital part of the process to maintaining a healthy sex life.

It is also important to realize that aging adults, sexual malfunctions, differ greatly between males and females. Women for an example might suffer from vaginal dryness. Often causing the tissue of the vaginal wall, to feel like sandpaper whenever something is place inside of it. Having sex under these conditions, has been known to be quite painful and irritating. Understanding that this is often associated with the aging process, women no longer have to suffer the plagues of vaginal dryness. Most over-the-counter lubes make it possible for elderly women, to enjoy their new found sexual freedom.

For men, their problems are usually centered around the function, or lack there of; of their private part. It is a scientific fact that it takes elderly men, up to three times longer to develop an erection, compared to a man half his age. Another aspect of the male anatomy is the fact, which aging men do not produce the same amount of semen as younger males do. Making it even harder for an aging man to reach the point of climatic pleasure, let alone experiencing one. Understanding some of the most simplistic details about the aging process, just might be the missing clue you've been looking for. Just because you are getting older, doesn't mean you should stop living your life.

Maintaining a happy sex life, is one way to staying healthy and fit. Even if your eighty. Realizing some of the most basic essentials and limitations, is all you have to do to be free and safe with your sexual partner. If you are limited by arthritis or pain, make sure to give yourselves plenty of extra time and use some of your God given ingenuity and creativity to make things go smoother, and preferably pain free. Using extra padded pillows to help support your hips, elbows or knees, is one such was of being creative when it comes to dealing with your private limitations. Understanding that your body is more fragile now, verses before, is only smart on your part. Creative measures to aid you in this endeavor, might even call for you and your partner to develop an ever expanding definition of sex itself. Whatever the case maybe, just remember, life doesn't have to pass you by because you're turning sixty!