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Sex Best in Your 40s

Posted February 23rd by Carlin
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I'm 35 and I can't wait to be 40.  I look at my contemporaries - Angelina, Drew, Cameron, Jennifer - and they look more beautiful and confident now than they did in their 20s.  It's a shame that our culture prizes youth over wisdom.  Betty always says that she hit her sexual stride in her 40s.  Watch out world here I come.

In a survey of 2000 women carried out in Britain by Health Plus magazine, 77 per cent said that their sex life was at its best in their 40s; 82 per cent of that age group also said that sex was as important to them as it had ever been. Other surveys echo these conclusions - one carried out in the US, for instance, found that women in their 40s want to have sex more often than younger women.

 Jane Polden, a psychotherapist who specialises in working with middle-aged women, says it's a story she hears time and again, as does relationship psychologist Susan Quilliam, co-author of The New Joy of Sex. "There's plenty of research that shows sex gets better for women as they get older," says Quilliam. "It's one of the best-kept secrets of women's lives."

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