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Aging & Libido
Here's the million dollar question. Does aging affect our sexual interest? Are you ready for the answer? Aging and libido are totally unrelated!
Studies have shown that sexual interest does not decline with age. In fact, it tends to peak between the ages of 70 and 75, prominently amongst married women.
Sexual interest has been proved to be almost entirely psychological. Aside from the physical changes to our genitalia in later stages of life and physical restrictions like cardiac conditions, our ability to be interested in and have sex is quite maintained.
During late adulthood, women who are not married lose their interest more readily than married women. Married women are usually driven by the partner's libido, which can easily decline if the partner loses interest.
Loss of sexual interest can occur in males as well, although this is rare. Psychological factors like fear of aging, mid-life crisis, or physical changes such as hair loss can make a man feel insecure about himself.
The way we perceive ourselves is essential to maintaining a healthy libido and sexual interest. As we age, we become insecure about our mind and body. This can lead to reduced sexual interest, and if nurtured in time, it continues to wear even more on our interest for sex.
Because of this, it is important to address the early changes brought on by aging. Talking it out with friends and family can help you understand more about what to expect from time.
Remember to give space for yourself to have fun and socialize, and if you haven't already, pick up a new sport. These are all ways to maintain healthy brain function and aging altogether. To keep your libido, address the underlying reasons for a decreased interest in sex.
BONUS : Aging & Natural Selection
Because the world as we know it didn't contain complex organisms like ourselves in the very beginning, the definition of aging is hard to apply to all living things.
Bacteria and viruses can reproduce in a matter of minutes, living endlessly as they mutate into hardier and hardier strains. As they reproduce, the parents become the offspring due to cell replication, and thus the parent remains active, never reaching maturity, aging, or dying.
Viruses, bacteria, and other small organisms can stay dormant for thousands of years - an existence that is a lot longer than our own, needless to say.
The origins of aging and the endless theories that followed weren't simple. As soon as more complex living creatures came around, the concept of aging took shape. It was initially believed that aging and death were only imminent after an organism was sexually active. If it hadn't fulfilled the function of reproduction, the subject wasn't ready to die.
Theories also suggest that the way genetic material was initially replicated in the beginning was due to organisms eating each other, thus interchanging and doubling their inherent chromosomes within the body.
As a result, the cells would replicate into an offspring, and the organism would then reach maturity to deteriorate and die. In this scenario, parent organisms go through aging and maturity, as opposed to the original occurrences when cells remained as offsprings themselves.
The theory of natural selection revolves entirely around this last hypothesis. But it was a lot more advanced, and accounted for the variables associated with our habitat shaping our skills, intelligence, and abilities.
It suggested death was not only a result of reproductive fulfillment, but also of a subject not actually fulfilling their purpose either by choice or circumstance. Thus the term "survival of the fittest."
Because the world as we know it didn't contain complex organisms like ourselves in the very beginning, the definition of aging is hard to apply to all living things.
Bacteria and viruses can reproduce in a matter of minutes, living endlessly as they mutate into hardier and hardier strains. As they reproduce, the parents become the offspring due to cell replication, and thus the parent remains active, never reaching maturity, aging, or dying.
Viruses, bacteria, and other small organisms can stay dormant for thousands of years - an existence that is a lot longer than our own, needless to say.
The origins of aging and the endless theories that followed weren't simple. As soon as more complex living creatures came around, the concept of aging took shape. It was initially believed that aging and death were only imminent after an organism was sexually active. If it hadn't fulfilled the function of reproduction, the subject wasn't ready to die.
Theories also suggest that the way genetic material was initially replicated in the beginning was due to organisms eating each other, thus interchanging and doubling their inherent chromosomes within the body.
As a result, the cells would replicate into an offspring, and the organism would then reach maturity to deteriorate and die. In this scenario, parent organisms go through aging and maturity, as opposed to the original occurrences when cells remained as offsprings themselves.
The theory of natural selection revolves entirely around this last hypothesis. But it was a lot more advanced, and accounted for the variables associated with our habitat shaping our skills, intelligence, and abilities.
It suggested death was not only a result of reproductive fulfillment, but also of a subject not actually fulfilling their purpose either by choice or circumstance. Thus the term "survival of the fittest."
