Chris At Home

Having a great relastionship, everything is stable...and then she doesn't want sex?

The female sex drive starts sputtering to a halt as soon as a woman has got her man, according to a new study.

Researchers have found that women's libido plummets so rapidly when they believe they are in a secure relationship that after just four years the proportion of 30-year-old women wanting regular sex falls below 50 per cent.

There are few things that appear able to keep a woman sexually interested, the study found, but living apart for extended periods can help.

The findings for women contrast with those for men, whose sexual appetite hardly flagged at all up to 40 years after marriage....He found that within a year of a relationship starting, female libido moved into steep decline.

Yeah, I might consider living apart for extended periods if there was no sex. I'm not sure how this meshes with all of those 1980's studies showing male and female libidos to be equal, or the old chestnut about a woman reaching her sexual peak at 35.

Dr Klusmann's findings were, however, attacked by Irma Kurtz, the agony aunt for Cosmopolitan magazine, who said: "Of course women in their 30s with children, careers and the house to run are too busy and tired for sex, but they have a great capacity for tenderness."

A porterhouse has great capacity for tenderness. I think the 'agony aunt' had her tongue planted in her cheek when she gave that quote. It's just not possible to say that line seriously.

H/T: Ace.