Health & Fitness It's official: sex gets better with age
By Tony Watts - Editor - 17/07/2008
In a report destined to evoke expressions of horror and disgust - if not disbelief - amongst their children, it seems that ever increasing numbers of 70 year olds are having good sex and more often - with women in this age group being reported as “particularly satisfied with their sex lives”.
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