The Unexpected Way Your Age Might Affect Your Love Making Life
The story goes that as you get older, your love making life gets less satisfying, right? Well according to a new study, that's totally dependent on how you approach it. The study, published in the Journal of Shagging Research, actually found that older people had a higher s3xual quality of life than their younger, friskier, counterparts—with a few caveats.
For the study, the researchers looked at how s3xual satisfaction changed over time using data from a national survey of over 6,000 adults between the ages of 20 and 93, collected between 1995 and 2014.
To analyze the survey data, researchers created multiple models (or charts) to see the association between participants' age and the quality of their love making lives.
The first model, which compared the age of the participants and which wave they took the survey in to how they ranked their love making lives over time suggested that the quality of their love making lives declined with age. The second model found that both men’s and women’s love making lives take a dip as they get older.
However, when the researchers recalculated their model to take frequency of making love, perceived control of their love making life, thought and effort invested in making love, and number of s3xual partners into account (in addition to their age and when they took the survey), they found that participants who reported high levels of comfort and control, thought and effort, and frequency of making love were actually more satisfied with their love making lives even as they got older. And those who had only one partner (indicating they were in a committed relationship) were also more satisfied than those with two or more.
In fact, when these factors were favorable, their s3xual quality of life increased by about 1.4 percent over each decade.
The researchers also found that as you get older, how often you make love and control over your love making life becomes less important to your overall s3xual satisfaction. But at the same time, the amount of thought and effort put into each encounter is even more vital to a happy love making life. In other words, the quality of your love making sessions trumps the quantity as you get older.
The future is definitely looking hot.
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