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This is not a figment, but based on the results of a study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, a team of doctors conducted two investigations of the health condition of citizens of the United States.
One survey involved 3,000 people aged 25-74 who filled in a questionnaire in mid-1990s as part of a study of their lives upon entering middle age.
Meanwhile, one other survey focused on the elderly, who conducted a decade later of 3,000 participants aged 57-85.
At age 55, men on average have a sexually active life almost 15 years into the future, and women have sexually active lives for 10.5 years.
The researchers also found large differences between men and women associated with their sex lives.
"Overall, men who seem to be more sexually active than women, reported the sex life of quality and interested in sex. The gender gap is increasing as people age," explained the researchers.
The biggest difference occurred in those aged 75-85, who mentioned 38.9% of men said they were sexually active, compared with only 16.8% among women. While 41.2% of men claimed to still be interested in sex, far different from the women who only reached 11.4%.
In the group of 'active sex' aged 75-85, accounting for 70.8% of men admitted they were good quality of sexual life, compared with 50.9% of women who claim such.
So why did this until much different? According to the research team, this can be partially explained by the opportunity. That look of recognition about two-thirds of men in a cross-age which states they have a partner. While among women, only two-thirds of respondents aged 25-54 who have a spouse.
For women aged 75 or over, about 4 in 10 people have a spouse - a figure that reflects the longer life of women and the tendency of men to marry younger women.
The study also found that the condition of good health is vital to achieve good sexual quality.
Someone who has good health, almost double the interest in sesk and is expected to enjoy sexual activity six years longer than their counterparts a bad health condition.
The authors study results, Stacy Tessler Lindau and Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago, hopes their findings could help end ketabuan in terms of talking about sex in the old age, especially in women.
In his comments, Patricia Goodson, a professor at Texas A & M University, said the news that the U.S. among older adults can enjoy sex over the age of 55 is good news. But this finding also begs the question, he said.
If the size of the study were sexually active life expectancy quite credible, American men generally stop their sexual activity at age about 70, which is about 8 to 9 years before they died. It was based on expectancy (expectancy) living in demography.
For women, the rate of sexually active life expectancy will end at the age of about 65, but their life expectancy at the age of about 82 or 83.
"This measure is still yet to be understood and invited questions about why, even though they enjoy an active sex life a little more, many women do not consider this a problem," said Goodson.
"This measure also does not mention in detail about how women and men organize, trying to improve, or treat their sexuality is growing older."
The survey was conducted in 1995-6 and defines sexual activity as sexual intercourse with at least one partner during the previous six months, while a survey in 2005-6 defines sexual relations with at least one partner within the previous 12 months.
Respondents who had sex two or three times a month in both surveys was defined as having sex on a regular basis. Between 95.0 to 97.8 of respondents described themselves as heterosexual.
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