AARP's Modern Maturity Reveals Survey Results on Sexual Attitudes. Men and women who are free of illness and are not taking medication report feeling sexual desire more than those who are being treated for an illness or are taking medication.
Men are more apt to seek treatment for problems related to their sexual functioning than are women.
The survey doesn't show one big picture, but rather a series of close-ups emerges, illuminating the physical and emotional complexity of sex in midlife and beyond. While frequency drops with age, more than 70 percent of surveyed men and women who have regular partners are sexually active enough to have intercourse at least once or twice a month. About two thirds of those polled were extremely or very satisfied with their physical relationships. Older men also espouse more conservative values than younger men, but the gap is much narrower. More significantly, the majority of the men and their partners said that the drug had increased their enjoyment of sex.