The following is a guest post from blogger and writer Amanda Kidd. She is a regular follower of healthy living her health guide includes all the health related topics. Amongst all she likes to write on sexual health a lot:

Sexual urge or the libido is a natural phenomenon in men and women alike. It is widely believed and understood that couples enjoy intimacy more in their young age rather than in matured stage of their lives. Though apparently this may be a well accepted notion and may also look very true, the research indicates otherwise.

Sexual urge in older women, or middle aged women, is a subject of immense interest and research amongst the scientists and researchers all over the world. What happens to the sexual drive of a woman when she crosses the threshold of 30 and enters into the middle age era? Does she feel bored? Does her desire begin to wane? Or is it that sexual urge in women has no age bar? And at any point in time they remain equally active, if not more than the man?

An article published in a health magazine in UK suggests that middle aged women show more urge for indulging in sex than their younger counterparts. Elaborating further on the sexual drives and sexual health of older women, the article claims that these women are also more willing than younger women to have sexual escapade!

As you age, definitely there are going to be hormonal, psychological and physical changes in your body. You may not find yourself as interested or inclined to have fun in the bed. On the other hand, you may be surprised to see yourself attracted towards your partner even more than ever. The sex drive may blossom the way flowers blossom in the season of spring.

A study conducted by a US University last year throws up some interesting facts about spring bringing with it a glance at older women’s sexual health. You may be surprised to know that contrary to the common conception, from amongst the 2000 women surveyed, 43 percent of women aged 45 to 80 reported moderate sexual desires and 60 percent had been sexually active in the previous three months.

Being sexually inactive is also a problem amongst many women – reasons varying from lack of interest in sex to lack of partner to physical problem of the partner to lack of interest by partner to having some personal physical problems.

You must not hesitate in consulting a doctor or a psychologist or a clinician if you fall under any one of the aforesaid categories. And doctors on their part should consider women’s overall health when addressing the concerns about sexual inactivity amongst elder women. They are supposed not only to focus on the women’s health and general well being, they should also take into consideration partner issues to solve the problem.

As a middle aged woman if you realize that you are confronting physical and emotional changes of aging and unable to maintain a satisfying sex life, you need to talk to your partner about it. Instead of trying to find ways to get back to the level of sexual activities you enjoyed as a youth, try to find ways to optimize your body’s response for sexual experience. Negotiate a way out which is mutually satisfying.

Love matures with age, they say, and so do your drive for sexual satisfaction. Maintaining sexual health is state of mind and you can remain in pink of your sexual health if you believe that you will be seventeen till your last breath.

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