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The Evolution of Desire: Arousal in Later Life!

11 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains how sexual arousal changes for women after menopause. While younger women often experience spontaneous arousal—an immediate, intense sexual response upon seeing a potential partner—post‑menopausal women tend to have a responsive arousal pattern. This means that physical or emotional cues such as a massage, a long hug, kissing, or intimate time in bed are needed to trigger sexual desire. The speaker emphasizes that reduced spontaneity does not indicate a loss of libido; rather, the mechanisms that initiate arousal simply shift, requiring more deliberate stimulation and connection.

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Let's talk about arousal patterns in older women. When we're younger, it's all about spontaneity. You see somebody, you get really horny, and your juices start flowing, and it's all very, very exciting. When you're older and menopausal, postmenopausal, it's responsive, which means that you need to actually do something to get those juices flowing. It could be getting a massage, could be having a nice long hug, Could be kissing, could be actually just being in bed with somebody and starting to get intimate. But basically, those juices are not going to start flowing in the same way that they did when we were younger. We just got to get used to that because it doesn't mean that we're not horny anymore. It just means that the way we get aroused is different.