研究：七旬老人也“性福”

More 70-year-olds are having good sex more often, Swedish researchers said on Tuesday in a finding bound to bring a smile to many an aging baby boomer.

They found 70-year-olds of both sexes are having more sex than they did 30 years ago, and many more women report being satisfied with their sex lives.

"Attitudes are more open-minded and positive today, at least in the elderly themselves," said Nils Beckman of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, whose study appears in the British Medical Journal.

Beckman and colleagues interviewed four groups of 70-year-olds in Sweden about their sex lives between 1971 and 2001. They found that 68 percent of married men said they were having sex in 2001, up from 52 percent in the early '70s.

The number of married women having sex rose to 54 percent in the group interviewed in 2000-2001, up from 30 percent in the early 70s.

And 12 percent of unmarried women interviewed in 2000-2001 said they were having sex, up from less than 1 percent in the early '70s. The number of women reporting high sexual satisfaction also increased, with more women reporting an orgasm during sex and fewer reporting never having had one.

Interestingly, the number of men reporting low sexual satisfaction rose. Beckman said in an e-mail this might be because men are now more open in talking about sexual failure.

Overall, he said the changes reflect shifting attitudes about sex in Western societies over the past half century.

"Hopefully it will inspire elderly people to seek help if having sexual problems, and make doctors and other health professionals aware that even elderly people can be or would like to be sexually active," Beckman said.

瑞典研究人員在本週二表示，如今越來越多的7旬老人更加“性福”，這個研究一定會讓許多日漸衰老的嬰兒潮一代感到愉快。

他們發現，與30年前相比，70多歲老年人的性生活都有增加，並且更多女性對自己的性生活表示滿意。

瑞典哥德堡大學的尼爾斯•貝克曼說：“如今的性觀念越來越開放積極，至少在老年人中是如此。”他的這項研究在《英國醫學期刊》上發表。

貝克曼和他的同事對瑞典四組70多歲的老人在1971年至2001年之間的性生活進行了採訪。他們發現68%的已婚男性表示他們在2001年有過性行爲，較70年代初的52%有所上升。

在2000年至2001年的調查組中，已婚女性擁有性生活的人數上升至54%，高於70年代初的30%。

此外，在2000年至2001年被調查的未婚女性中，12%的人表示她們擁有性生活，而70年代初，這個比例還不到1%的比例。越來越多的女性表示她們對自己的性生活高度滿意，更多女性稱有過性高潮，極少數人表示從未有過高潮。

有趣的是，宣稱性生活滿意度低的男性人數上升了。貝克曼在一封郵件中說，這可能是因爲現在男性能夠更加坦率的討論性障礙。

總體來說，他表示，這些變化反映的是在過去的半個世紀中西方社會性觀念轉變。

貝克曼說：“希望這個研究能夠鼓勵有性生活問題的老年人尋求幫助，並且使醫生和其他的健康專家意識到老年人也能夠或者願意擁有積極的性生活。”