Geriatric love-making often strikes the young as being either obscene, a matter of humor, or both.
Adults often refuse to believe that their own parents make love.
Perhaps such assumptions of sexual Puritanism among the old derive from our cultural fixations on youth. Regular sexual activity is beneficial to individuals' mental and physical health across the lifespan, according to Masters and Johnson and others. Let's first compare the NCOA results with other studies, specifically the NORC General Social Surveys. Since 1989, NORC interviewers asked Americans how often they had sex over the previous 12 months. And note how different the story is when broken down by sex.