Half of English men 70+ having sex what about Kurds?

[Anthea]

The Telegraph

Half of English men over 70 are still having sex, study finds

The University of Manchester has found that a large number of elderly people still have active sex lives

Older people are continuing to enjoy active sex lives well into their seventies and eighties, according to new research from The University of Manchester

More than half (54 per cent) of men and almost a third (31 per cent) of women over the age of 70 reported they were still sexually active.

A third of these men and women said they had frequent sex – meaning at least twice a month – according to data from the latest wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).

It is the first study on sexual health of its kind to include people over the age of 80 and uncovers a detailed picture of the sex lives of older men and women in England, finding that a sizeable minority remain sexually active in their old age.

More than 7,000 elderly people were asked about their sex lives by Manchester’s School of Social Science.

“We hope our findings improve public health by countering stereotypes and misconceptions about late-life sexuality, and offer older people a reference against which they may relate their own experiences and expectations,” said report author Dr David Lee.

"Our ongoing research is also highlighting the diversity of late-life sexualities, and trying to impose youthful norms of sexual health on older people would be over-simplistic and even unhelpful.

“It is however important that health professionals act on this and are more open about discussing sexual health with older people – it can’t simply be assumed to be an irrelevance."

Problems encountered by older people which stopped them having sex, or enjoying intercourse fully, included failing to become aroused, difficulty achieving orgasm, and for men erective difficulties.

Chronic health conditions and poor self-rated health seemed to have more obvious negative impacts on the sexual health of men compared to women.

Men were more concerned about their sexual activities and function than women and, with increasing age, these concerns tended to become more common. Sexually active women were less dissatisfied with their overall sex lives than men, and also reported decreasing levels of dissatisfaction with increasing age.

The study also found that many septuagenarians and octogenarians were still affectionate towards their partners, with 31 per cent of men and 20 per cent of women reporting frequent kissing or petting. Among those who reported any sexual activity in the past three months, 1 per cent of men and 10 per cent of women reported they felt obliged to have sex.

Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK, said: “The fact this is the first time that people over 80 years old have been included in this kind of research highlights how often the public health needs of older people, including sexual health, are ignored or overlooked.

“With an ageing population it is important that providers of sexual health services understand the needs of older people in both clinical settings and when developing information and advice.

“These recent findings now need to be used to improve sexual health advice and information for older people.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science ... finds.html

[Anthea]

Question: what percentage of Kurdish men 70+ lead active sex lives?

Due to the heavy smoking of many Kurds I would think the percentage is far lower

I told him that if he kept smoking so heavily he would be dead long before he was 50

He said that his father died before he was 50 - so he did not expect to live longer

He was right he died - shot by the Turkish PIGS

Over the past 50 years have more Kurdish men died due to smoking

OR

Died at the hands of the murderous TURKS?

Interesting question that

[Piling]

I knew some old Kurdish gundî (peasants and mountainers) having some fun with women at 90. I knew one who married a 40s widow though he had passed his 80s at least.

Besides smoking, the alimentation has a great role also : traditional Kurdish meals are healthty, and Kurds were not sedentary. The Grand Pa' I mentionned went down from his village to the 'desht' (field in plain) every morning at dawn to check his plants.

Kurdish life was hard, so many children could die young but if they survive later, they had a strong constitution.

[Londoner]

Kurdish men are not sex-educated and sex-open-minded as much as English men.

This reminded me with the story of two old couples in our village. They, each couple, were always fighting between them, actually they were not fighting but both old men hitting their wives severely every day. The reason was as I heard it from the village women speaking confidentially between themselves, that the old women were refusing to submit to their husbands to have sex with them.

Both old women also were fighting back on their own way. Each one was nagging her husband none stop. Some times the husbands used to come outside and screaming asking for God or some one to come to rescue them from the crafty wives. I remember other people were dying from laughter at the account of the battered husbands.

[Anthea]

In the UK a large percentage of Kurds seem to suffer from assorted illnesses after they reach 30

Many of them look old for their age in comparison to an indigenous white English person - must be those greasy kebabs they eat

[Londoner]

In the UK a large percentage of Kurds seem to suffer from assorted illnesses after they reach 30

Many of them look old for their age in comparison to an indigenous white English person - must be those greasy kebabs they eat

Possibly not Kebabs but drinking like water. In the case of native, s/he drinks alcohol, water and various kinds of other juices for pleasure. This makes their blood thiner, which helps blood to reach all parts of skin to cleanse all skin cells. But in the case of Kurds, they drink only when they become thirsty. This habit keeps their blood most of the time thicker, which doesn't help blood easily to reach all parts of skin easily and always. So their skin is not cleansed properly and always. This leads to signs of early age.

[Anthea]

In the UK a large percentage of Kurds seem to suffer from assorted illnesses after they reach 30

Many of them look old for their age in comparison to an indigenous white English person - must be those greasy kebabs they eat

Possibly not Kebabs but drinking like water. In the case of native, s/he drinks alcohol, water and various kinds of other juices for pleasure. This makes their blood thiner, which helps blood to reach all parts of skin to cleanse all skin cells. But in the case of Kurds, they drink only when they become thirsty. This habit keeps their blood most of the time thicker, which doesn't help blood easily to reach all parts of skin easily and always. So their skin is not cleansed properly and always. This leads to signs of early age.

I tend to disagree with you because most of the Kurdish men I know seem to drink tea almost non-stop and a great many of them have diabetes due to the large number of sugar cubes/lumps they eat with their tiny classes of tea - one of my friends ate a total of 20 sugar lumps with his tiny glass of tea

Kurdish ladies do not drink anywhere near as much as the men

You are perfectly correct - drinking plenty of water and other non-alcoholic liquids does thin ones blood and also helps to cleanse the skin and rid ones body of impurities