Middle aged woman DO have better sex, study finds
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Sometimes it can feel that the cut off point for 'great sex' is somewhere in our thirties. After that, the picture painted makes it seem like it's all just holding hands and watching Bargain Hunt re-runs together.
But a new study has found that your sex life gets better with age because with age comes experience and the knowledge of what makes us tick.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh interviewed 20 women between the ages of 45 and 60 and the results may surprise you.
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The answers showed that while older women may be more likely to experience a lower sex drive, they also found it easier to communicate in bed and knew themselves a lot better than they did at a younger age.
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Holly Thomas MD, the study's lead author, will present the findings at The North American Menopause Society tomorrow. There, she will also explain that her and the study's co-researcher decided to interview the women rather than collect data on sexual frequency because it 'allowed women to speak their own words regarding their experiences' and made it easier to 'capture nuances and individual variations in women's lived experiences of sexual function during midlife'.
Holly explained to The Independent that: 'One of the most enlightening findings of this study was the large number of women who had successfully adapted to any negative changes by modifying their expectations regarding sexual activity, putting more emphasis on the emotional and intimacy aspects of sex, or adapting the sex acts themselves.'
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Many of the women interviewed attributed this to self-confidence and better communication – in particular when it came to asking partners to take prescription drugs for erectile dysfunction.
Professor Thomas, from Pittsburg University, also said that one of the most 'enlightening findings' from the research was the amount of women who had 'successfully adapted to any negative changes by modifying their expectations regarding sexual activity, putting more emphasis on the emotional and intimacy aspects of sex, or adapting the sex acts themselves.'
In short, we adapt to our changing sex life and take matters into our own hands so that though it's frequency may drop our satisfaction levels were higher.
This is fab news when you consider that previous research suggests sex helps us to live longer!
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Consensus: Clinton wins debate – but Trump is far from finished
The most-watched presidential debate in history knocked Donald Trump sideways, but not out of the race for the White House, after he was tripped up by a well-drilled Hillary Clinton.
Riled by needling from Clinton about his family, the flamboyant Republican was forced on the defensive for much of their 90-minute showdown at Hofstra University, and swiftly saw some signs of faltering support among voters.
Opinion polls, which still suggest a 45% chance of Trump winning in November, will take days to fully measure the impact of Monday night’s debate, but bookmakers indicated a four-point bounce for Clinton by the morning, a trend supported by focus groups and a survey of those watching.
Yet if the unpredictable 2016 race has confirmed anything, it is that Trump’s bluster has frequently confounded pundits and resonated with voters. Unconventional outbursts during his first one-on-one debate at times rendered both opponent and moderator speechless.
“That makes me smart,” Trump told a shocked-looking Clinton when she accused him of paying no federal income tax.
“She doesn’t have the look. She doesn’t have the stamina,” he retorted when challenged over sexism toward the Democrat’s first woman nominee.
Briefly, some of Trump’s policy punches landed too: on “stolen” jobs, and an appeal to the electorate’s anti-establishment mood over trade. “Hillary, I’d just ask you this. You’ve been doing this for 30 years. Why are you just thinking about these solutions right now?” he said.
However, there was wide consensus the morning after the debate that it was Clinton who had shown more stamina and discipline, getting under her opponent’s skin within minutes of their opening pleasantries.
“Donald was very fortunate in his life, and that’s all to his benefit. He started his business with $14m, borrowed from his father, and he really believes that the more you help wealthy people, the better off we’ll be,” said the former secretary of state, in what appeared a carefully prepared tactic to undermine his blue-collar appeal and goad the businessman who has a reputation for being thin-skinned when criticised.
When Trump obliged by deviating down a meandering defence of business practices she claimed had “stiffed thousands of people”, Clinton next painted him as sleazy bigot.
“This is a man who has called women pigs, slobs and dogs, and someone who has said pregnancy is an inconvenience to employers,” she said, before one of the night’s few new lines of attack: “One of the worst things he said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy’. Then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping’, because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.
“Her name is Alicia Machado. And she has become a US citizen and you can bet she is going to vote this November.”
Clinton also accused her opponent of building his political career on a “racist lie that our first black president was not an American citizen”.
By the end of their bruisingly one-way encounter, in which Trump barely mentioned his signature immigration policy or Obamacare, he fell back on crude hints about Clinton’s health and criticising her from taking time away from the campaign trail to study.
“I think Donald just criticized me for preparing for this debate. And yes, I did. And you know what else I prepared for? I prepared to be president. And I think that’s a good thing,” replied Clinton.
“Look, it’s all words, it’s all soundbites. I built an unbelievable company,” said a rattled-sounding Trump.
“Words matter. Words matter when you run for president. And they really matter when you are president,” responded Clinton.
Briefly, a compelling Trump painted vivid images, before appearing to lose himself in his own answers.
“She’s saying Russia, Russia, Russia,” he began an answer about cybersecurity and the hacking of Democratic headquarters. “It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400lbs, OK?
“I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable,” he digressed.
Clinton hits back after Trump attacks her ‘stamina’ at debate
Aboard her plane on Tuesday, Clinton projected confidence as she spoke to reporters – not a common election year occurrence – about her debate performance while taking a shot at Trump for alleging he had a defective microphone.
“Anyone who complains about the microphone is not having a good night,” Clinton told reporters.
The debate, she added, underscored questions about Trump’s fitness to be president. “Well, I think his demeanor, his temperament, his behavior on the stage can be seen by everybody,” she said.
“People can draw their own conclusions. I thought on several occasions he was making charges and claims that were demonstrably untrue, offering opinions that I think a lot of people would find offensive.”
Asked about Trump’s insistence that he had shown restraint by holding back on personal issues pertaining to Bill Clinton’s history of infidelity, she simply noted Trump “can run his campaign however he chooses” .
“I will continue to talk about what I want to do for the American people, lay out specific plans with very clear goals in mind to help us deal with all the challenges we face,” she said.
Speaking at a rally in North Carolina on Tuesday, she chided Trump’s performance by noting there was “a lot of work for fact-checkers last night,” before zeroing in on the Republican nominee’s continued refusal to release his tax returns even when pressed during the debate. “He actually bragged about gaming the system to get out of paying his fair share of taxes,” Clinton said.
While it is too early to tell how the first debate might impact the trajectory of the race, the positive mood within Clinton’s campaign was palpable the morning after. Staff could be heard cheering and applauding the Democratic nominee as she boarded her plane for a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, said Trump’s persistent efforts to talk over the top of Clinton were revealing.
“I think his constant interruption of her probably was reminiscent of the way a lot of women feel about bullies in their lives,” Podesta said in a conversation with reporters at the back of the campaign plane.
“I thought it was kind of unbecoming and he couldn’t stop himself.”
But Trump dug in further on Tuesday, telling Fox News he had pulled his punches over Clinton family sex scandals, while his allies hit out at the debate’s moderator, Lester Holt.
“If I were Donald Trump I wouldn’t participate in another debate unless I was promised that the journalist would act like a journalist and not an incorrect, ignorant fact-checker,” said former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Clinton responded that she looked forward to her next two encounters with Trump – whether he chose to attend the debates or not.
“Well, I’m going to show up. He gets to decide what he’s going to do,” she said. “If I’m the only person on stage, I’m the only person on stage.”
Authorities investigate possible family sex crime
“We received a report of possible sexual contact between a 14-year-old male and a 10-year-old female relative,” Huron County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Ted Patrick said. “They are Huron County residents.”
The suspected incident is only described as having happened recently. Deputies received the complaint about 8:15 p.m. Sunday.
“It was reported by a parent,” Patrick said.
After a brief investigation, the boy was transported to the Seneca County Youth Center. Patrick said the juvenile was charged with delinquency and is being held in custody pending further hearings in Huron County Juvenile Court.
“Huron County Children Service personnel and the Huron County Sheriff’s Office are continuing their investigation,” said Patrick, who declined to elaborate.
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