AOL Health’s Justine van der Leun recently interviewed me for a much-needed article about sex and aging. They covered all sorts of topics commonly neglected by other news sources including lubrication, sexually transmissible infections (STI), masturbation, medication and aches and pains common to aging. Read the full article on AOL Health. Continue Reading →
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Men have less semen when they ejaculate as they get older
Recently I was teaching at a college dorm program and a guy made a comment about how men’s orgasms are “like shot guns” and have this one big powerful thrust whereas women’s, he said, are more like semi-automatics and keep going. This is kind of a Vagina Monologues reference (to paraphrase the line “who needs a handgun when you’ve got a semi-automatic” about vibrators) but it also reflects a more general idea that many people have about men’s and women’s orgasms.
There is much I could write about on this topic and we’ll get to more of the complexities (and the basics, too) on other days. For now, however, let me say this: though many young men find that they can hit the ceiling with their ejaculate or may even have to use the “hand shield” move to keep semen from flying into their partner’s face if they are coming on the partner’s stomach, with age comes the Dribble Factor for many men. As in, there tends to be less thrust and more “gentle spillage” or dribble of semen from the urethra. This is a common experience with aging and many men in their forties and fifties notice some change in the thrust of their ejaculate. Continue Reading →