At some point the aging male will discover that he is oozing smaller quantities of semen, although it is still teeming with sperm if he has not had a vasectomy. Along with the diminished amount and velocity of the ejaculate, men at some point in their aging process will begin to experience a lowering in the intensity of their subjective experience of orgasm. The decrease in the strength of the internal contractions not only accounts for the loss of velocity, but also the dampening of the intensity of the experiential component that mental feeling of orgasmic pleasure. For some aging males, intensity will vary. Some might be quite intense, while other orgasms almost go unnoticed.
Some older men are uncertain if they ejaculated, even though they did.
A longer time is needed to recover You will recall that men have what has been called a refractory period, the time each man requires before he is able to follow up one ejaculation with another. The point is, each man seems to have his own unique refractory period, either shorter or longer than others. However, regardless of the length of time a young man needed to recover, as he ages this man will experience a need for more and more intervening time before he is once again able to ejaculate. Robert W. Birch, Ph.D. is retired after 35 years of clinical experience, university teaching and public lecturing in the specialized area of relationships and sexuality. No longer a sex therapist, he now identifies himself as a sexologist and an adult sexuality educator, and lives and writes in rural Ohio with Susan and their four dogs.