Old age 'no barrier' to sex life
A study of more than 3,000 people aged 57 to 85 finds seniors with a partner are more sexually active.
Health problems or lack of a partner, rather than lack of desire, were listed as the most common barriers to sex.
Sex with a partner in the last year was reported by:
73% of those aged 57 to 64
53% of those aged 64 to 75
26% of those aged 75 to 85
Of those who said they were sexually active, most said they were having sex at least two or three times a month.
Half of the people surveyed up to age 75 said they had oral sex.
About half of the men and a quarter of the women said they masturbated, regardless of whether they had a sexual partner.
People who rated their health as poor were less likely to be sexually active than people in good health.
About half of the respondents said they had a "bothersome" sexual problem.
Among men, the most common problem was erectile difficulties.
Fourteen percent of men said they used medicine or supplements to boost their sex lives.
Women said lack of desire, difficulty with lubrication and inability to climax were their most common problems.
"These data will give people a sense of whether what they're experiencing is typical."
Bike Sex is Illegal
Even behind a locked door and in private you are not safe from sex persecution
Bike sex man placed on probation
Cleaners caught Mr Stewart simulating sex with a bike
A man caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years on probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace by conducting himself in a disorderly manner and simulating sex.
Sheriff Colin Miller also placed Stewart on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
Mr Stewart was caught in the act with his bicycle by cleaners in his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr.
Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.
"They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white t-shirt, naked from the waist down.
"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."
Both cleaners, who were "extremely shocked", told the hostel manager who called police.
Sheriff Colin Miller told Stewart: "In almost four decades in the law I thought I had come across every perversion known to mankind, but this is a new one on me. I have never heard of a 'cycle-sexualist'."
Stewart had denied the offence, claiming it was caused by a misunderstanding after he had too much to drink.
The bachelor had been living in the hostel since October 2006.
He now lives in Ayr.
We say it should have gone like this:
Mr. Stewart: ... Well, there I wos your 'onour, shagging away an rubbing me cock an' balls all over the bicycle seat that I love so much, an just about to shoot me load when these two snoops sneak into my locked room.
His Honour: You two snoops are hereby sent to prison for two weeks for invading this mans privacy!
His Honour: Now Mr Stewart I want you to come into my private quarters and tell me all about it and bring the evidence along for a demo.
In America it's the love of the automobile:
Mr Dickman is ticketed for letting a cop see him wriggle his dick...
the pinch line? He's 89 years old.
We say it should have gone like this:
Officer: Wow thats amazing at your age. Move over and let me get a better look.
Sex in China - Now and Then
Tcheou-Wang
" The present investigators did not find gender differences with regard to Chinese college students' current sexual behaviors and current safer sex behaviors. However, males were more likely than females to report that they would engage in a one-night stand in the future. This gender difference may be due to the fact that females tend to focus on love and emotional factors when considering sexual relationships, while males may consider lust and physical pleasure as the more primary reasons to engage in a sexual relationship (Chan & Cheung, 1998; Whitley, 1988). These results may also reflect the subtle double standards put on the two genders by the society at large, in which women are honored for their asexuality while male sexuality is portrayed as a train that cannot be derailed once engaged ."
Shanghai's Museum of Sex Gay & Lesbian: " Indeed sex has always had a central, if unspoken, place in Chinese life. One scholar has even argued that sex, more than culture or politics, was the fundamental influence underlying ancient Chinese ritual and ethics. Several ancient classics stress that making love as much as possible--and as far as possible into old age--was beneficial to health and spiritual well-being. These texts were based on the naturalist philosophy of Taoism, which taught that sex was a way to harmonize the energies of heaven and earth. Sexual arousal in men and women was thought to be accompanied by the secretion of yang (male) and yin (female) essences or energy. A person not only needed to cultivate his or her own inherent sexual energy, but also was supposed to absorb the energy of the opposite sex in order to maintain a healthy balance of yin and yang." "The museum's collection of artifacts reflecting homosexual behavior--which had prompted my own visit--is somewhat disappointing. Indeed, the language in the official brochure becomes particularly contorted when it turns its attention to the last of the ten topics into which the exhibition is divided: "Unusual Sexual Behavior." Among the practices included under this rubric are homosexuality, fetishism, exhibitionism, voyeurism, sadism, and masochism. The brochure explains: "In past period, people usually treated unusual sexual behavior as crimes and punished it seriously. ... But according to modern science, in general speaking, the unusual sexual behavior is psychological disease, or only sexual behavior in different forms, we should make a concrete analysis of concrete conditions. We should help and guide them, and not discriminate and crack down on them."
In reality, Tibetan Buddhism is not a values-free system oriented around smiles and a warm heart. It is a religion with tough ethical underpinnings that sometimes get lost in translation. For example, the Dalai Lama explicitly condemns homosexuality, as well as all oral and anal sex. His stand is close to that of Pope John Paul II, something his Western followers find embarrassing and prefer to ignore. His American publisher even asked him to remove the injunctions against homosexuality from his book, "Ethics for the New Millennium," for fear they would offend American readers, and the Dalai Lama acquiesced.
In ancient erotic art and fiction, oral sex, including mutual 69 oral sex, is not unusual. Considering the lack of information about sexual behaviors that prevailed until recently and Dalin Liu’s finding that 34 percent of rural couples and 17 percent of urban couples engaged in less than a minute of foreplay, it is not likely that oral sex is as common as it was in ancient China. No general survey data is available. Many modern Chinese think oral sex is too dirty. In 1988, a survey of 140 homosexual males in Shanghai revealed that only nineteen persons, 13.6 percent, said they had had oral sex, and only four persons, 2.8 percent, had experienced anal sex. At a 1990 World Health Organization meeting on the spread of AIDS in China, Pan reported that 7.7 out of 10 Chinese have had anal sex with a heterosexual partner. Little data are available on anal sex among homosexuals because of the taboo character of that population and studies on same-sex behavior (Burton 1990). (Dalin Liu’s Sex Culture in Ancient China provides extensive information about sexual deviance in China.)"
Human Sexualty: an Encyclopedia "In some cultures, men would insert fingers during certain rituals, or wear butt plugs while meditating. Anal sex has often had mystical significance. The berdache was often thought to have magical powers. In China, anal intercourse with a wife was permitted because it was thought that by doing so the husband could get the essence of yin. Even gods of ancient Egypt, Seth and Horus, practiced anal sex as a means of establishing dominance." "Contrary to popular belief, anal sex is not an activity exclusive to the male homosexual, nor is it the activity most often practiced by him. Although statistics on this subject are suspect, some investigators report that 47 percent of predominantly heterosexual men and 61 percent of the women have tried anal intercourse."
"Among the oldest of the surviving Chinese manuscripts are those dealing with sex. The two oldest extant texts, dating from 168 B.C.E., were discovered in 1973 in Chang-sa, Hunan Province, at Tomb No. 3. The interment included 14 medical texts, three of them sexological works: Shi-wan (Ten Questions and Answers), He-yin-yang-fang (Methods of Intercourse between Yin and Yang), and Tian-xia-zhi-tao-tan (Lectures on the Super Tao in the Universe). Key to Chinese sexology is the concept of yin and yang. According to the yin-yang philosophy, all objects and events are the products of two elements, forces, or principles: yin, which is negative, passive, weak, female, and destructive; and yang, which is positive, active, strong, male, and constructive. It is quite possible that the two sexes whether conceived of in terms of female and male essences, the different social roles of women and men, or the structural differences between female and male sex organs are not only the most obvious results of the workings of yin and yang forces, but major sources from which the ancient Chinese derived these concepts. Certainly, it was very natural for yin-yang doctrine to become the basis of Chinese sexual philosophy."
-sex in modern China "The only sexual behavior acknowledged to be legally and morally permissible is heterosexual intercourse within monogamous marriage. Every imaginable variation is explicitly proscribed: prostitution, polygamy, premarital and extramarital intercourse (including cohabitation arrangements), homosexuality, and variant sexual behavior are all illegal.
We say: Go back to the old ways for a saner society
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