Self reported sexual activity in Australian sexagenarians

doi:10.1136/bmj.a1250

Published 11 August 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a1250
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a1250

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Self reported sexual activity in Australian sexagenarians

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We compare the self reported sexual activity and satisfactionin Swedish 70 year olds¹with recent data from the Australianlongitudinal study of health and relationships (ALSHR)—anationally representative random sample of men and women aged16 to 64 who completed a computer assisted telephone interview.²The sample had 635 sexagenarians (60-64), most (80%) with aregular partner, almost all of them married and living withtheir partner. A quarter of women and 15% of men were not ina regular relationship. Regular sexual activity was the normfor those with a regular partner, both women and men reportingan average of three sexual experiences a month (table).

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Partner status and sexual activity during previous year and frequency of sex in previous four weeks in men and women aged 60-64. Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise

Among the attitudinal statements presented to respondents was:"An active sex life . . . [Full text of this article]

Jason A Ferris, research fellow¹, Anthony M A Smith, professor¹, Marian K Pitts, professor¹, Juliet Richters, associate professor², Julia M Shelley, senior research fellow¹, Judy Simpson, professor³

¹ Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Melbourne, Vic 3000, Australia, ² School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia, ³ School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006

j.ferris@latrobe.edu.au

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