

"If something was really good right now, why would you want it to stop?" "I'm always amazed at how people are surprised about talking about sex and older adults, like it's always this great revelation," she says.

Wilton helps clients navigate the changes in their bodies – and keep their sex lives thriving. Shots - Health News Lubrication And Lots Of Communication: Navigating A New Sexual Life After Menopause Natalie Wilton, a therapist who specializes in senior sexuality, says it's no surprise that people feel pessimistic about sex as they age. Also, "sexually optimistic" individuals who acquired physical limitations they didn't have ten years before – such as pain that made it harder to lift groceries or exercise – reported having more frequent sex than people who had lower sexual expectations and no such limitations. Participants who were optimistic about their sex lives reported having significantly more frequent and more satisfying sex than those who had lower expectations. Their findings seem to demonstrate the power of positive thinking.

Researchers then checked in with the participants a decade later. Īs part of the MIDUS (Midlife in the US) study, hundreds of partnered adults ages 45 and up were asked to rate how satisfying they expected their sex lives to be 10 years in the future. To get more stories like this delivered to your in-box, click here to subscribe. The main resources in the game are food, wood, gold and stone.This story was adapted from the April 30 edition of NPR Health, a newsletter covering the science of healthy living.

To move from one age to the next, it is necessary to build some buildings and pay certain economic resources. In the Imperial Age, which is reminiscent of the early years of the Renaissance, the whole tree of technologies is available for a civilization and the civilization has reached its technological peak. Each age provides improvements to the civilization, as unlocks various new units, buildings and technologies available for use. The player takes control of a village or city belonging to a certain civilization and guides it through 4 ages: the Dark Age, Feudal Age, Castle Age and Imperial Age. It was released in mid-1999 and is the second release in the famous Age of Empires franchise. Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings (abbreviated AOE2 or AOK) is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Games for Windows and Mac OS operating systems, and Konami for PlayStation 2.
