MISSING OUT OR FEELING CHEATED: SEX
At around forty sex drive is in no way diminished although for many the demands may sometimes change subtly. Sex, although enjoyable and vitally important, starts to become less compulsive and an additional pleasure of life rather than a necessity like food and drink.
With true aging — and by that we mean from sixty onwards — the testicles sit low in their scrotum which hangs lengthily instead of snugly close to the body and it can take a considerable time to reach erection. By seventy the situation declines further and desire begins to tail off but, by then, most men will have taken up other night-time interests like sleep or reading a good book so they worry little about the change.
The ability to have a continuing sexlife depends mostly on keeping in practice. And a fit body is more likely to have the right vitality and energy to respond to sexual stimulus than an unfit one. It is not unknown for men in their eighties to enjoy a (comparatively) active sexlife and have themselves a ball.
In the United States doctors interested in such matters have concluded that the angle of erection changes with age. At thirty, they say, the average erect penis thrusts about twenty degrees above the horizontal, at forty it is only just above the horizontal line at ten degrees and at fifty, just a dip below. Whatever the angle, it neither interferes with achievement or pleasure, nor does it impair the ability to achieve orgasm.
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