Men more passionate sex life

It's no secret that women's life expectancy is longer than men. But matters of sexual life, man's champion.

Although women more longevity, but a study showed the age of 55 years, a man still has years of active sexual life to 15 years in the future. While women in the same age, they only have the remaining 11 years.

The study, published in the British Medical Journal also mentioned if a man keep his physical condition, he could still be sexually active for up to 7 again. Meanwhile, with the same physical condition, she could only add no more than 5 years.

"We senagaja see a difference in the age of 55 years because at this point he is consistently still interested in sex than women. This is not surprising because the average age of female menopause at 51 years. Hormonal changes at menopause will make sex not so comfortable anymore, "said Dr.Stacy Tessler Lindau, researchers say.

In addition, although usually male erectile dysfunction is also a new experience in over 50-55 years but the erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra and the like make the sex life of men continued to surge.

"The proportion of men aged 50-60 years who said it was still interested in sex compared increased rapidly during 1996. One reason is because now there are drugs for male erectile dysfunction," he said.

In his research Lindau national survey data comparing 1996 and 2006, each of which involved 3,000 participants. The ages of the participants between 57-85 years. They answered questions about the relationship with spouse, sex drive and health conditions.

In general, although older men still want sex and are sexually active admitted more satisfied than their spouses.

In its report, Lindau and his team also introduced the term sexually active life expentacy / SALE (sexually active life expectancy). According to his research, the average SALE 30-year-old man is 35 (meaning he is still going to have sex until age 65 years).

While the 30-year-old woman has a SALE 31. However, keep in mind that women are usually more longevity.

"The important thing to note from the results of this study is a person wants to continue to be sexually active and now we are more open to talk about it," he said.