The Importance Of Sex And Intimacy Of Older Americans

In “Sexuality and Aging-Research on Aging” Dan Sewell, MD, explains the revised definition of sexual intimacy, the need for doctors to ask about sexual activity, and the need to take care of ourselves.

In modern day society, birth control is remotely routine. Four out of five women rely on hormonal contraceptives to inhibit their ability to conceive. With consequences blatantly delineated, women continuously risk the odds. The amount of women at risk makes it notably essential that we understand the effects of such birth prevention thus forcing the question what is affected. Sex has often been spoken for in relation to possibly affected variables from birth control. "With the increase in research aimed at developing new treatment methods for women's sexual dysfunctions over the past several years, a better understanding of the link between women's sexual functioning and satisfaction is called for" (Meston and Trapnell p2). Being hormonal beings prior, one could only assume the disjustice additional hormones are doing to a body. "Yet, to our knowledge, no studies have examined the relation between what constitutes satisfaction and what constitutes distress within sexual realm" (pg 2). With the sexual satisfaction scale to measure the intimacy, low scores would

Assessing the patient’s baseline function by asking about the ADL independence two weeks before admission (Lee, Staffileno & Fogg, 2013) as well as the sexual function, as 72% of older adults bellow 60-year old and 57% above 60 still sexually active (Kalra, Pinto & Subramanyam, 2011). Further, include the patient in discussion about the treatment, ask for opinion and patient’s preference should be considered in decision making (Levit, Ganz, Nass & Balogh,

Ciesla, J. A., Kalmbach, D. A., Kingsberg, S. A., & Pillai, V. (2014). The Transaction between depression and anxiety symptoms and sexual functioning: A prospective study of premenopausal, healthy women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44 (6), 1635-1649.

It’s something that most people prefer not to think about. That is until time flies and they, themselves, are approaching late adulthood. One day, hopefully, we’ll all be 65 years of age or older and wondering if we can still enjoy sexual experiences into late adulthood? This essay will delve into the personal issues of the people in late adulthood and their sex lives. It will also discuss some of the common problems that people in the late adulthood stage may encounter with sex and how they cope with those problems.

In face, male study participants alluded to the shared process of menopause as having characteristics of the male partners’ helplessness and female partners’ declining sexuality (Liao et al., 2014). Each theme suggested that the changes that the woman experienced more profoundly invoked fear, anxiety, and impotence in male partners who desired to be supportive to their wives. Anxiety and uncertainty regarding the effect of menopause on women’s libido, often thought to halt completely, proved to be common among interviewees (Liao et al.,

There are many misconceptions when we talk about sex especially to old age generation. During the first day of class in HS 107, we talked about myths on aging. According to many people, they believed that “Majority of old people have no interest in, nor capacity for, sexual relations” (Facts on Aging Quiz). In our society, many people believe that older adults do not have sex when they reach the certain old age. Many argue that as you grow older your body becomes frail, thus, decreasing and diminishing sexual desire. Others believe that the sex “belong to the younger generations” (Schwartz, 2012). Since older adults are more prone to chronic disease, this means that we assume that they do not have a desire on having sexual intercourse.

The participants of De Leo, Buono, and Dwyer, were 18,641 elders of age 65 and older. Of the 18,641 individuals, 15,658 were females and the rest were males. These participants had a variety of backgrounds. Some were married, divorced, widowed, living with others, or living alone. The researchers got their participants from a group of individuals who were older than 65 and lived in Veneto, Italy.

In this paper, I will be writing a personal journal entry in response to the textbook, “Human Sexuality in a World of Diversity (9th ed.)” written by Spencer Rathus, Jeffery Nevid, and Lois Fichner-Rathus (2014). They write about genital play in children and that sexual curiosity can develop as early as one year. I agree that children have a natural curiosity about body parts, what they do, and how they feel. I think it is appropriate for children to learn the correct body part terminology and have self-exploration. The textbook further discusses that around the age of two years old children can engage in genital play with other children, which could include genital hugging, cuddling, and kissing. I do not think that it is appropriate for children

The Index of Sexual Satisfaction (ISS) is used in clinical and research settings to measure sexual satisfaction (Hudson et al., 1981). The purpose of the ISS is to evaluate the quality of the sexual relationship between partners (Hudson et al.,1981). The ISS is a 25-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure individual’s feelings about behaviors, attitudes, events, affects states, and preferences that are associated with the sexual relationship between partners. Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating greater degrees of sexual discord (Fisher et al., 2010). Sexual dissatisfaction is indicated by a high score while high levels of sexual satisfaction is indicated by a low score (Larson, Anderson, Holman, & Niemann, 1998). The ISS has a clinical cut off score is 30 indicating the presence of a significant degree of sexual discord in the relationship (Fisher et al., 2010). A score above 70 indicates that clients are experiencing severe stress, in which case, violence could be considered or used to deal with problems (Fisher et al., 2010). In order to compile a score,

For most healthy men and women, sexuality is central to their lives and contributes to their personal and relational quality of life (Verschuren et al., 2010). Relationships and sexual satisfaction enhance the quality of life. When one member of the relationship suffers from a chronic illness, it may restrict many areas of their life. Sex is a significant source of comfort, intimacy, and pleasure. The sexuality of an individual may be compromised by physical and emotional problems that accompany the chronic disease (Ferrini, 2013 p. 358). The illness the individual is facing my cause them to feel tired, depressed, and uninterested in sexual activity. Intercourse and sexual relations may provide intimacy and relaxation,

With more emerging adults having casual sex, researchers are exploring psychological consequences of such encounters. In the United States,

"Sexual dysfunctions are an important public health concern, to which general health and emotional problems contribute" (10). What is a sexual dysfunction? A sexual dysfunction is any condition that inhibits someone's ability to enjoy sex. Some common sexual dysfunctions are: hypoactive desire disorder (low sex drive), hyperactive sexual disorder (high sex drive), sexual aversion disorder, lack of lubrication (females), impotence (male erectile disorder), premature ejaculation, vaginismus (prolonged contractions of the vaginal wall that cause painful intercourse), or failure to orgasm during sex (8). In a study of happily married couples, 14% of men and 15% of women reported that they were either not very

This article, Gaps Between Actual and Desired Sex Life: Web Survey of 5,665 Japanese Women, by Koichi Nagao, Toshihiro Tai, Rieko Saigo, Masaki Kimura, Yumi Ozaki, Norie Tanaka, Hideyuki Kobayashi, and Koichi Nakajima, discusses the gap between women’s actual and desired sex life. The authors believe this gap may change based upon the presence of effective communication. It has been thought that a sufficient sex life leads to a better well-being (Davison, Bell, LaChina, Holden, & Davis, 2009). An individual’s sexual quality of life is largely impacted when both partners are satisfied. When an individual is not satisfied, a gap between the actual and desired sex life of an individual often exists and can have a large impact on both partners quality of life. This web based study aims to explore the area surrounding women’s desired and actual sexual lifestyle, coupled with the presence of effective communication. Due to the study being limited to heterosexual women in a small area, there are limits the representation of some prospective participants.

Reproductive health is a state of physical, emotional, behavioral and social fitness for leading responsible, safe and satisfying reproductive life. Briefly speaking reproductive health refers to healthy reproductive organs with normal functions. Although studies agree that the majority of women consider sexuality a very important determinant of quality of life. In terms of specific conditions, age, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, lower urinary tract problems, breast cancer, hysterectomy, endocrinopathies, clinical depression, smoking, and natural menopause have all been consistently found to show significant associations with female sexual dysfunction. Osteoarthritis & depression has been associated with low sexual desire in untreated patients. The existing theoretical review paper emphasis on sexual dysfunction their types, causes, treatment & their effect on human behavior.