Damn Daddy! Older Gays Have Just As Much S*x As Anyone (Maybe More) Reveals New Survey
Who said you slow down when you get older? Apparently, nobody told the gays, and they are out there living their best lives. That includes getting it on.
The University of East Anglia, in conjunction with Kings College London and University College London, has released survey results sampled from 5,000 individuals in the UK and found that gay men over 70 enjoy active sex lives; often with multiple partners.
Not Having Enough Sex? Just Wait Til You’re Older
The study wanted to understand how sexual behaviours change with age. With the results, researchers were hoping to map better models for sexually transmitted disease data. The results worked against current approaches by shattering the belief that people aged over 40 were not having sex.
“Before this study, many models about sexually transmitted diseases assumed that everyone over a certain age, say 40 or 65, stopped being sexually active, or at least stopped having multiple partners,” says Lead researcher Dr Julii Brainard.
“Or there might be an assumption that young people have the most sex. But the answer is more nuanced, and it partly depends on people’s sexuality.”
We in the queer male community have known for a long time that we are a sexually active bunch. But what might surprise some is the volume of gay men over 70 who are still actively having sex and with concurrent partners no less.
Discussing older queer men, Dr Brainard says: “Even at age 65-plus, the respondents recruited via social media still tended to have more sexual contact than the general population sample at the same age.”
One thing that has become clear to researchers is the need for methodological adaptions. Taking sexuality, identity and age into account can be a crucial turning point for accurate and meaningful results.
