Quirky World ... Sex is no longer a grey area for those in their 80s

England:Senior citizens are still enjoying active sex lives, according to the first major study of sexual health in the over-80s.

And more than half of men (54%) and almost a third of women (31%) over the age of 70 said they were still sexually active, with a third of those having “frequent” sex of at least twice a month.

More than 7,000 older people took part in the research for the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, led by Dr David Lee, an Age UK Research Fellow at the University of Manchester’s School of Social Sciences.