There is a lot of press about loss of libido of late including the New York Times.  You read that some, a lot, many menopausal women just don’t feel like having sex.  Not even with Bruce Willis.

But like ye olde “A woman over age 40 has a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than of getting married”, just where did this come from?

The above NY Times article quotes a source which , if followed,  links to a 2007 paper on  A 60-Year-Old Woman With Sexual Difficulties. Hardly a representative sample.

Other sites reference a Stanford 2004 Survey.  That survey, conducted online,  involved 781 women. Again not a representative sample as cautioned by the Stanford people themselves. Of them, the  majority ie. 52% of women did not experience problems.

Others reference  a 2009 survey by Siecus, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. This time it was only 580 women. Apparently 45 percent reported a decrease in sexual desire after menopause, 37 percent reported no change and 10 percent reported an increase. Can anyone see the problem with that Math?  45 + 37 + 10 = 92%. So what did the other 8% say?  Who knows?  Bottom line is only 45% said they had a problem.  Down 3%.

Following this trend a survey done in 2024 of 241 women should show 0% have a problem.  And it probably will.  If talk of low libido in the over 50s female keeps up at this rate, the  boys in pharmaceuticals will have invented female Viagra and got it covered by health insurance!

Tags: libido, sex

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