Word: sexed
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Marshall—the justice who wrote the decision that made same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts in 2003—said that growing up under apartheid sparked her interest...
...It’s like the only one of Harvard’s traditions that doesn’t involve public embarassment because youre not running around naked or having sex in the stacks,” she said of her decision to partake in River Run festivities last night...
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...
...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...
...reasons for the male-female sex disparity among the elderly may not be clear, but the paper shows that the problem in sex quality seems to worsen with age. Still, there is a silver lining for older women having bad or unwanted sex: men tend to die younger than women. Also, it is men's increasing physical and health problems that are most commonly cited (by both men and women) as the reason sexual activity declines later in life. (See a story about elder porn in Japan...