why is it that as you grow older, your thirst for sex diminishes?

Question

i want to know why. my parents hardly sleep together again. is there a problem with old age?

Answer 1

Hormones honey....hormones.

Answer 2

It's a symptom of the life cycle. In most people the drive to live high and wide happens between 15 and 25. When you get in your late 30's to 40's , you try to recapture that youthfull energy but you know it's on the wane. In the 50's and 60's , it deminishes and. unless periodic mental and physical stumuli is present, well, it becomes a chore and you know how everyone just LOVES chores. That's not to say that some negative somethings can't be "helped along". Pharmasudical research has come a long way, and I love my Blue pills. LOL. You in that "Thirsty" group have nothing on me when I get "Thirsty". LOL.
I'm 64, and 'fixed'. Sex may make children . I have 2 girls, 12 & 16, and at my stage of life, children are the last reason I would have sex. In my mind I'm just a thirsty, dirty, old, man. And loving it! LOL

Answer 3

Well, what happens is you end up having a bunch of rotten little kids who cost too much money and generally ruin your life and you finally remember why it was that you probably should not have been having sex in the first place so you stop having sex for fear of having more such mistakes.

EDIT: Now, all joking aside, and on a more serious note, it may simply be that your parents, at their age, have so many bodily aches and pains that, with all the tossing and turning they do at night trying to adjust for said aches and pains, it might just be nearly impossible for them to have two people in the same bed.

Answer 4

sex is a transientry pleasure and as couples grow old together real affection takes the place of chemistry . Plus some times its the lack of privacy with grown up children and being caught up with the struggles of day to day life......no big deal. Dont equate sex with genuine love n affection

Answer 5

1. You are no longer ruled by hormones.
2. You realize there are more important things and parts to a relationship than sex.
3. Life gets in the way.
4. Comfort and real love replaces lust and puppy love.
5. Your parents hardly sleep together because they have other issues wrong in their marriage besides sexual desire.

Answer 6

I would say while you are young most people want to experence Life(sex). But when you grow up you know there is more out there than sex. You actully start loving the person rather than the love life. instead of having sex maybe they just enjoy there own company.

Answer 7

As our sole purpose on this planet is to procreate our need for sex is at its most at the time we are most fertile, after puberty and for a woman before menopause. After menopause most women lose the desire to some degree as their body recognises its inability to produce offspring. Men often keep their sex drive into old age but women lose theirs in many cases. Although this leads to mis matched sex drives men seem to tolerate it. Im 34 and doing it lots while i still want to!!!

Answer 8

I hope it doesnt happen to me, well you cant always judge that people lose their sex drive. it depends on how a couple are with each other and how open and wild they atill are. Now they've had kids, maybe they feel that sex isnt as important any more. anyway its none of your business if parents "do it" *shudders* at the noise of their bed bashing the wall.

Answer 9

your hormone levels fall. as you age, your body slowly becomes less able to repair itself. every day, we make and replace millions of cells and that process slowly degrades over time. our bodie's hormone levels begin to decline as our organs become less able to make them, and you see a drop in libido. also, typically our high fat diets tend to plug things up. you arent getting the same blood supply as you did when you were young. you can lessen the effects and lengthen your time at a very verile level with propper fitness and nutrition.

then there is the whole boredom factor. you've been there, done that. sex becomes routine and ordinary as you have exhausted the things you can feed off of.

Answer 10

Your sex life might diminish but your love for each other won't.

Answer 11

Depends on the people involved....some lose their desire for sex, some just lose the desire to have it with their long term partner...men and women are typically capable of having sex well into their senior years if their physical condition allows it.