Maintaining a healthy sex life involves a combination of a number of factors covered in this booklet, including communicating with your health care provider regarding any problems or concerns you may have. Knowledge is power and the more you know about sexual function as it relates to your own life, the better equipped you will be to have both a healthy and safe sex life.
Just as critical is maintaining a positive attitude towards your sexuality. Accepting intimacy as a means of lovemaking when, for whatever reason, you and/or your partner are physically unable to participate in intercourse per se will allow you to both achieve and maintain long-lasting relationships.
Finally, while you may need to accept that your body no longer performs as it once did and looks differently from that of your 20 year old self, this is no way is a “sexual death sentence.” A healthy individual can still achieve sexuality, in its various forms, until the seventh, eighth, and even ninth decade.
AUTHOR: Joan Yuhas McGowan
MORE INFO: Excerpted from "Sexuality After 50: Changing Bodies, Changing Times"
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