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Sex Lives Better for Older Couples with Gender
Equality
Study in 29
countries finds general happiness, sex related
April 19, 2006 - Older couples who live in Western
countries and who enjoy more equality between men and women are most
likely to report being satisfied with their sex lives, according to a
new study on sexual well-being, aging and health that was conducted in
29 countries by a University of Chicago research team.
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In contrast, older people reported less
satisfaction with the physical and emotional quality of their sex lives
in countries where men have a dominant status over women, such as
nations in East Asia, and to a lesser extent, the Middle East, according
to the results of the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors.
The study involved surveying about 27,500 people
between the ages of 40 and 80, including equal numbers of men and women.
The study is the first of its kind to document and compare sexual
behavior and related satisfaction among middle-aged and older people
worldwide. Across most of the countries surveyed, substantial majorities
of people with partners remain sexually active throughout the second
half of their lives.
The study found that people reported the greatest
sexual satisfaction in four countries, led by Austria, and followed by
the United States, Spain and Canada. At the low end of satisfaction were
Japan and Taiwan. Countries such as Turkey, Egypt and Algeria were in
the middle.
An article on the survey, titled "A Cross-National
Study of Subjective Sexual Well-Being Among Older Women and Men:
Findings from the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors," is
published in the April issue of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior.
In relationships based on equality, couples tend to
develop sexual habits that are more in keeping with both partners'
interests, said lead author, Edward Laumann, the George Herbert Meade
Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology at the University of
Chicago. "Male-centered cultures where sexual behavior is more oriented
toward procreation tend to discount the importance of sexual pleasure
for women," he said.
The study, which was intended to draw out people's
subjective evaluation of the role of sex in their relationships with
partners, included questions about how physically or emotionally
satisfying their relationships are and how important sex is to them.
They also were asked about their overall happiness;
physical and mental health circumstances, including sexual dysfunction;
their attitudes toward sex; and their attitudes toward various social
and demographic factors, including age, education, income and religious
affiliation.
This is the first large-scale international study
to include large numbers of respondents from diverse religious
traditions, including Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and other
Asian religions, and atheists. A particular focus is on the impact of
aging, health conditions and socio-cultural context on sexual
well-being.
At the beginning of the interview, respondents were
asked if they were happy with their lives as a whole. The study found
that subjective feelings of sexual well-being are strongly correlated
with overall happiness for both men and women across all of the
countries studied. Other findings of the study include:
● Across all of the countries studied, there are
large gender differences in sexual well-being. On average, men reported
at least 10 percentage points to their sexual health and well-being
above the percentages that women reported.
● In Western nations, two-thirds of men and
women reported their sexual relationships were satisfying, and 80
percent said they were satisfied with their ability to have sex. About
half of the men and one third of the women said sex was extremely or
very important in their lives.
● In Middle Eastern nations, 50 percent of men
and 38 percent of women found their sex lives satisfying. About 70
percent said they were satisfied with their ability to have sex. Sixty
percent of men and 37 percent of women said sex is an important part of
their overall lives.
● In East Asian countries, only about one
quarter of men and women reported physical and emotional pleasure with
sex, while two thirds of the men and half of the women reported
satisfaction with their ability to have sex. Among men, 28 percent said
sex was important to them, while only 12 percent of the women did.
About the source:
Pfizer Inc. funded the Global Study of Sexual
Attitudes and Behaviors. Other authors of the paper are Anthony Paik, a
sociologist at the University of Iowa; Dale Glasser, a public health
epidemiologist for Pfizer Inc.; Joeng-Han Kang, a methodologist at
Chicago; Tianfu Wang, a sociologist at Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China; Bernard Levinson, a psychiatrist in Johannesburg, South Africa;
Edson Moreira, a medical public health epidemiologist at the Oswaldo
Cruz Foundation in Bhaia, Brazil; Alfredo Nicolosi, a physician and
epidemiologist at the National Research Council, Milan, Italy; and Clive
Gingell, a urologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, England.
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