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Several studies published between 1948 and 1980 have described sexual behavior in the elderly. This report provides more recent data obtained from a survey of 744 persons over the age of 60 living in a Michigan community.
Two-thirds of the men and one-third of the women reported sexual activity. Married men and women were far more likely to be sexually active than their unmarried counterparts. Several correlates of sexual inactivity were found, including advancing age, problems with mobility, and nonuse of coffee (the latter among women only). Forty percent of the men reported at least some degree of impotence; impotence was correlated with incontinence, an interrupted urinary stream, a history of myocardial infarction, and nonuse of coffee.…