There is a maxim that we have all heard in some version and that has been attributed to various authors: "If you are under thirty years old and you are not a liberal, it is because you do not have a heart. And if you have reached thirty and you are not a conservative, it is because you lack a brain . " Voting statistics tend to confirm that trend. But can it lead to other vital aspects, such as sexuality?
Robert N. Butler, first director of the National Institute of Aging of the United States, unleashed in the mid-eighties a sounded controversy with his book The New Love and Sex After 60 (in Spanish, "The new love and sex after 60" ). In it, Butler, who died in 2010, brought up numerous investigations that speak of a stage with less concern about what they will say .
He recalled, for example, a pioneering study on the beneficial effects of releasing responsibilities. There it was shown that, around the sixth decade of life, couples used to change the stereotypical model that they had represented for years and dared to manifest erotic-affective needs that they previously concealed because they were victims of the rigid male / female role that chained them. .
According to Butler, this translates into greater empathy for the needs of the other and openness to new experiences . Despite the fact that maturity poses obstacles – from the appearance of physical problems to the social pressure against it – it can be a much more adventurous phase in the carnal terrain.
