Das sexuelle Verlangen von Männern erreicht etwa im Alter von 40 Jahren seinen Höhepunkt, wie eine große neue Studie zeigt. Männer berichten von einem deutlich höheren sexuellen Verlangen als Frauen. Das sexuelle Verlangen nahm mit zunehmendem Alter ab, bei Frauen stärker, und es war mit einer bisexuellen oder pansexuellen Orientierung, einer kürzlich erfolgten Geburt und der Zufriedenheit mit der Beziehung verbunden.
Men’s sexual desire peaks around age 40, large new study finds
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42 male here. I don’t know that that’s been my experience. I feel just as horny now as I did 20 years ago.
I think it all depends on your weight, diet and lifestyle.
There is definitely something about having kids (or not) that affects women. I had kids later in life – my first was born at 38. I was waaaay hornier in my 30s than my friends and siblings who had already had kids, even if those kids were well out of the toddler stage. I saw it as my body really really wanted babies even if I didn’t yet. Once I had them it chilled out.
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I was far more „horny‘ as in constantly thinking about it probably in my late teens than in my 40s, and was far more ‚horny‘ as in having sex multiple times a day, in my 20s than in my 40s.
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58 and… I’ve been in a steady state since my teens… WHATS WRONG WITH ME?? How you doin..?
This is all based on people answering a question whether they have strong sexual urges or not. The answers would really depend on the culture in Estonia.
Personally, being a female from Eastern Europe, I was brought up that it’s shameful for a woman to be interested in a man first, and to desire men, it should be the men desiring me.
So I really question the sincerity of the answers from both men and women. It could be that more men are not willing to admit that they don’t experience sexual desire. And more women are not willing to admit that they do have strong sexual urges.
M66, in decent shape. I look younger than my age. Still skiing. Still horny. It’s harder for me to find female partners but not impossible. Ladies find hormone replacement helps their libido.
I wonder. I’ve slept with cougars who have conveyed to me a sharp increase in desire after turning 40. Totally an anecdotal phenomenon, but seeing this headline I can’t help but wonder if it is explored anywhere else
I’m not even at the peak yet?!
Let me tell you this. If men tried to make their women happy and get every need of them met in history just because women were giving them comfort and sacrificing their freedom and living their precious life with men. The world would have collapsed.
There is desire and comfort. Then there is life and responsibility. The question is when will men understand which is more important.
Lots of other studies say that women’s sexual desire goes up later in life so everything is normal.
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I think that the disconnect between sexual desire and testosterone levels is particularly interesting, given the amount of misinformation about this on Reddit and elsewhere.
Testosterone functions over a wide range, and levels low enough to have an actual clinical consequence are not common.
Does it factor in health concerns women have with their insides?
If there’s one thing I can bet on is that this sub will always rubbish the findings of any social studies, except the ones about how great women are.
isn’t sexual desire tied to testosterone and don’t testosterone levels naturally decline when one ages?
Men’s sexual desire peaks around age 40, large new study finds
An analysis of the Estonian Biobank data found that men report substantially higher sexual desire than women. Sexual desire declined with age, more steeply for women, and it was associated with a bisexual or pansexual orientation, recent childbirth, and relationship satisfaction. The paper was published in Scientific Reports.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23483-0