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...real implications of the new paper could come in international climate policy. The U.N. system is built around the idea of capping carbon emissions from individual nations. But which country is responsible for the carbon emitted in global trade? The buyer or the seller? The study demonstrates that carbon leakage - emissions moving from relatively green countries like France or Germany to more carbon-intensive ones like Russia or China - is already occurring. The question is whether the leakage will accelerate if, for instance, developed nations institute tough carbon caps and drive out carbon-intensive industries, which will...
...with Viagra, which makes it easier for older men to be interested in sex. But the disparity in sexual activity between older men and older women isn't entirely explained by the 1998 release of the little blue pill. One set of data presented in the new paper - taken from the National Survey of Midlife Development, involving about 3,000 adults ages 25 to 74 - was collected in 1995 and 1996. That data set shows that 62% of men ages 65 to 74 reported sexual activity in the previous six months; only 36% of women in the same age group...
What we do know, from this new paper, is that if you are a 30-year-old male, you can be expected to have sex for 35 more years. The authors - Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau and researcher Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago - call this measure your "sexually active life expectancy," or SALE. A 30-year-old woman has a SALE of just 31 more years. (The study also finds that men and women who stay healthy and in good shape gain extra years of sexually active life in older age, compared with their peers in poorer health...
Lindau, the lead author on the paper, is cautious about drawing strong conclusions from this variance. "It may be that women are more likely to have sex for reasons other than fulfilling pleasure - or that they are more interested in giving a partner satisfaction," she says. "Maybe they lack the agency, or maybe they feel marital duty, but our paper doesn't provide an explanation." (See how to prevent illness...
...shortcoming in the paper that the journal itself notes: in a British Medical Journal editorial accompanying the paper, Texas A&M University professor Patricia Goodson says that while Lindau and Gavrilova's new SALE measure might someday prove a useful tool for gauging an aging population's medical and public-health needs as they relate to sex, it "sheds no light on the intriguing - and still poorly understood - question of why, even though they enjoy fewer years of sexually active life, many women do not perceive this as a 'problem.' " (See pictures of longevity around the world...