Menopause is simply the inability to have children.
Menopause does not mean a break with sexual identity, so using a menopause clinic can help you have a healthier sex life in old age.
Sexual function is not lost. It is just not practiced.
The Somssijo Obstetrics and Gynecology Department has been conducting research on sexual function for medical practice.
According to OECD health statistics in 2021, the average life expectancy in Korea is 83.3 years.
Life expectancy is increasing to the point that it is said that it will soon reach 120 years.
In the early 1900s, about 100 years ago, the average life expectancy of our people was 36 years, and in the United States, it was 48 years.
The average life expectancy of the 27 kings of the Joseon Dynasty was 47 years, but the average life expectancy of the people was 24 years, so it is estimated that nutritious intake is important for life expectancy, and recent medical engineering technologies that diagnose and treat early with medical technology are effective in extending life expectancy.
The latest equipment that can be easily accessed at the hospital, such as MRI, CT, endoscopic ultrasound, imaging equipment, and electrocardiographs, can look inside our bodies and easily diagnose and treat early. Recently, as the world enters an aging society, we are faced with complex and diverse problems regarding the elderly. In the extended period of aging, elderly people, especially elderly women, who live alone, experience loneliness in their daily lives, and it is said that the solution is important in relationships with the opposite sex.
Despite differences in time and space and literary backgrounds, we cannot help but pay attention to the perception of the elderly body and sexuality in old age through the relationships between the opposite sex among elderly women in the East and the West during the human life cycle. Old age is a time when not only does health decline due to aging, but also when they begin to separate from those around them, and the time spent alone increases, subjective health declines, social roles are lost compared to when they were young, abilities decrease, and memory is gradually lost. Old age is more serious than other generations because it causes depression compared to other ages due to decreased social contact, death of spouse, and death of peers.
Women live longer than men, and studies on sex show that elderly women have a desire to love and be loved. Even though older women may seem to have a conservative attitude toward sex on the surface, many studies on the elderly show that they are actually very interested in sex.
Even if they deviate from the standards of beauty, older women say that even if their husbands have made their wives suffer by having affairs in their youth, they are tolerant and accept the pain, but their husbands’ selfish behavior can always come back to them while guaranteeing their sacrifice and pain.
In the novel, women forgive their husbands, but men say that if they understand women instead of forgiving them, it is devotion. In the novel < Fantasy Love >, we can see that older men are wary of younger women who approach them with money, but they easily approach the bodies of younger women through money and power.
As times change and the number of older people increases, their health improves, and sexual technology develops, leading to the development of Viagra, making sex and love for the elderly very important. We can see that even in their 70s and 80s, they want to love each other and have sex just like young men and women. The conditions for happiness in old age are economic power, work, and health, but sex and love occupy a key position in human relationships, so it has great implications for human sex and love, that is, sexuality.
If the purpose of human sexual activity is considered the reproduction of the species and legitimate sexual activity is limited to childbirth, then it is inevitable to have a negative evaluation of the sexuality of the elderly. This is because it is difficult for elderly women to get pregnant and it is also very difficult to raise children. In particular, elderly women after menopause cannot get pregnant, so sexual activity of elderly women cannot be justified.
If the purpose is pregnancy and childbirth, sexual desire is felt and actual sexual activity is performed even during menopause during pregnancy, not during the ovulation period.
The sexual form of animals and humans is different. Animals have a very short mating time and do not have to engage in complex foreplay or spend a long time having intercourse like humans. Humans face each other and check each other's emotions and reactions, but animals have different positions than humans. Humans feel one with the other person through sex, or feel love and intimacy through it, and sex is a very important part of the happiness of elderly people. In particular, the fact that elderly women have lost their sexuality and are considered neutral beings, but are viewed negatively by society and perceived as senile senility, is because the mainstream of society has not experienced old age, has not walked the path of old age, and is difficult to understand.
It is said that even elderly people with serious illnesses among the unhealthy elderly in nursing homes are interested in sex. It is also said that satisfying their sexual interest is important in pain relief treatment in the terminal stage. It can be seen that sex is a very important part of the happiness of people in their old age.
Just as Maslow's hierarchy of needs says that human sexual desire requires basic needs to be met before other higher-level needs can be realized, sexual activity in old age is a muscle exercise for the body. It is also reported that both men and women have improved cardiopulmonary function and immune function, and that it increases emotional intimacy, self-esteem, self-efficacy, self-fulfillment, and satisfaction.
It is a misconception that men have erectile problems and women do not have discharge due to menopause when they become old. Sexual issues can be treated at many hospitals, and for a satisfactory sex life, you can find information and resist the aging process as much as possible by using anti-aging with your spouse who has been with you for a lifetime as a couple in your old age. I hope that you do not accept the aging process indifferently, but maintain your health to delay aging, participate in productive activities, and visit a sex clinic to enjoy sex freely.
Menopause in women means that you cannot have children, and it does not mean a breakup with sex. The population change in our country is aging at an unprecedented rate in the world. According to the 2023 data from the National Statistical Office of Korea, Koreans have the longest life expectancy in the world, and women's life expectancy is more prominent than men's. Age appears during the development process of all humans and is a natural phenomenon, but from a biological perspective, it means decline or loss, and the main culprit of aging is women.
As healthy longevity becomes a reality, the medical community has focused on sex therapy as a treatment for seniors, and these days, senior models are as active as young people. We must now recognize that self-care from a young age is important for a healthy long life.