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Is Baby Boomer Sex Losing its Flavor?
The old adage teaches us that familiarity breeds contempt. Something that is easily attained is often under valued and too much sex certainly loses its appeal if it is offered too frequently and in the same worn out format. Baby boomers like sex as a rule and tend to seek intimate relationships to enhance their lives in a variety of shapes and forms. Psychological articles tell us, however, that too much sex becomes banal and boring.
Of course sexual excitement that is available with a young and nubile (or virile, as the case may be) partner has a quite different appeal to indulging in sex with the same partner you have lived with for the last twenty years and who needs vari-focals to read the instructions on her sexual lubricant. That kind of sex is massively over rated and even the most rampant baby boomers may be leaning towards being pleased with postponement.
Some people have a self image issue that precludes them from seeking sex with appropriate partners or partners of their own age. Their false impression of their own appeal leads them to fool themselves and take a disingenuous view of what their mirror reflection tells them. They see young and sexy while others see the reality: elderly; flaccid; well past its sell-by-date. For these people with an inflated notion of self, their long term partners with all the inevitable signs of age such as wrinkles and crow’s feet; are no longer appetizing. They seek sexual gratification, often with disastrous results, elsewhere, feeling their baby boomer partner has lost his or her flavor sexually. Psychological articles tell us that in fact these baby boomers are experiencing a sense of loss and that a reality check is in store as they seek the attentions of partners who are younger and fitter.
Sexual activities for seniors vary with lifestyle. Those who have stayed ultra fit throughout early and late middle age experience enormous sexual pleasure as they enter their sixties and seventies and if they have a long term partner sharing the same physical interests, in both conventional and same sex marriages and relationships, they are more likely to stay sexually content into old age. Illness can sometimes throw a monkey wrench in the works when it comes to a healthy sex life for couples entering later life, leading one or the other to need sexual gratification elsewhere.
On the whole, baby boomer sex does not lose its flavor, although for most aging boomers, it does seem to wane and suffer as a result of circumstance.
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