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THE MAJORITY OF older people are sexually active with 69% of people surveyed saying they have sex weekly or monthly.
A new study conducted by the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing at Trinity (TILDA) found that being sexually active is linked with better health and more positive perceptions of ageing.
The research, which involves more than 8000 adults over the age of 50, has found that frequent sexual activity is the norm with 59% being sexually active and of those, 69% were having sex weekly or monthly.
The researchers found that having sex has positive implications for a person’s health and their perception of ageing. They also found differences between men and women in terms of importance attributed to sex and frequency of sexual activity as each gender got older.
The findings included:
Lead author of the report, Joanna Orr, said: “Our research shows that sexual activity is an important part of life for many of those aged 50 and over in Ireland, including significant proportions of those in their 60s, 70s and beyond.
“Continued research into this area is not only important for understanding the links between sex and health and happiness, but also to dispel the myth that sexual activity is incompatible with advancing age.”
Professor Rose Anne Kenny added that the data is in line with international findings and emphasises the contribution of sexual activity to quality of life and good physical and mental health.
She added: “Where difficulties with sexual activity are present, effective treatments are available and we anticipate that the new data will reinvigorate GPs and healthcare professionals to enquire about patients’ sexual activity as part of routine clinical assessment and care.”
Wouldn’t surprise me.
Gaddaffi was a lovely man until he wanted to introduce the gold dinar for the sale of oil.
Then the eu and the usa shat themselves.
The eu/usa murdered tens of thousands of Libyans for oil and is murdering people on a daily basis with the bullshit “arab spring”.
Nothing would surprise me about the eu.
Gadaffi was a lovely man?? Whatever your views on western foreign policy in the region, thats nonsense!
Re Side View Bob.
You are spot on.
Re Mattoid.
Gaddafi was loved by his people.
Libya under Gaddafi was a beacon of light compared to present day and was the envy of the African continent until NATO ransacked and pillaged the country.
B Lowe I didnt know you knew what people in Libya thought of Gaddafi. Actually you dont my familyare Libyan and they live in Libya (fought in the uprising as well) and they will tell you it was know shining light it hardly had lights let alone enough food. Yes the U.k France and America wantedhim out for the oil but the people wanted him out because he was an evil dictator
Jamie,
“uprisng”
no Libyan could call what happened in Libya an “uprising” the brits/yanks used bastardized forces to gain control of the oil.
The brits/yanks will tell you that al Qaeda/taliban are there evil enemies but they have no problem arming them when it suits them.
Libya was a beacon of light.
You Jamie, are a bullshytter
The awkward moment when someone makes a derisive comment citing someone else’s spelling mistake and then makes a silly grammar mistake..
Their their, it’s not so bad! :-)
So your’e saying my father isnt Libyan,and didn’t fight? You are talking about somethimg you know nothing about, Im left wing mate but just because the west got involved doesnt mean it was all a western plan. Yeah they did jump on board and took advantage of it for there own personal gain. But Libya was no beacon of hope. Libya is in a awful way at the moment whatever notion of calm and government control in the media is lies it lawless my father has compared to Somalia where the warlords roamed in the 90s
Gadaffi may have had great intentions for the people of Libya and his economic policies certainly benefited all but power does eventually corrupt. Everything else is pretty spot on thou.
jamie,
i know more about libya than you or your father.
your use of british isms tells me a lot about you.
is jamie david thompson?
Under the al-Gaddafi government the Libyan people were denied fundamental human rights, abused, oppressed, imprisoned, tortured and silenced. Many of the abuses being used by armed militias in Libya today are replicating the abuses carried out by the former Libyan government. Amnesty International has decades of reports and evidence of documented human rights abuses by the former Libyan government on an appalling scale.
Human rights is not about picking a side, being pro al-Gaddafi or being anti western or supporting rebels or NATO’s intervention. It’s about condemning human rights abuses regardless of which side carries them out. Both sides during the conflict in Libya carried out human rights abuses that in some cases would be tantamount to war crimes.
The current Libyan government is not doing enough to protect the human rights of its people, and armed militias involved in the conflict have refused to disband and are engaged in widespread torture. As our report today shows, refugees and migrants to Libya are being treated appalling. Those are the issues we should be trying to address.
Re Amnesty.
Your first paragraph could be applied to the US. Change Libya under Gaddafi to America under Bush/Obama and it’s hard not to see striking similarities.
Both countries have engaged in what you described in your piece.
I don’t disagree with that. The use of torture by the US is something Amnesty International has frequently highlighted, along with the use of drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Criticising the human rights record of one ‘side’, doesn’t mean anyone should turn a blind eye to the violations committed by the other.
“Under ff/lab/fg governments the irish people are being denied fundamental human rights, abused, oppressed, imprisoned, tortured and silenced”.
Where was amnesty when donegal/sligo people were being framed, tortured and imprisoned?
Where is/was amnesty international when the families of those murdered by the british in dublin and monaghan need/ needed them?
What’s amnesty’s stance on state controlled media?
i could go on.
Amnesty are sickening hypocrites
@Blowe
“Both sides have engaged in what you described in your piece”
So you do acknowledge that Gaddafi wasn’t the benign “beacon of light” you portrayed in your earlier comment?
@Amnesty
Unfortunately it appears that no matter what human rights abuses are documented and how compelling the evidence, there will always be those who will choose to disregard it if it doesn’t fit with their chosen ideological viewpoint.
“Under ff/lab/fg governments the irish people are being denied fundamental human rights, abused, oppressed, imprisoned, tortured and silenced”.
Where was amnesty when donegal/sligo people were being framed, tortured and imprisoned?
Where is/was amnesty international when the families of those murdered by the british in dublin and monaghan need/ needed them?
What’s amnesty’s stance on state controlled media?
i could go on.
Amnesty are sickening hypocrites
sorry, that was meant to go with amnestys bullshit, see below.
The Janus faced Troll known as Side View Bob aka Thomond Park & Aviva Park (caught out claiming false journalistic credentials resurfaces as Limerick Boy and now appears in his current form. No doubt this muppet has also many other guises.
have your say