Wellness & Healthy Living – Simple Guide to Balanced Life

  If sustaining intimacy is becoming more difficult, there are many approaches that can help.   Image: © Ridofranz /Thinkstock Even if, as the saying goes, the brain is a woman's most important sex organ, we can't deny the role our bodies play—especially as we get older. Satisfying sex depends on several things: presence of desire, arousal, absence of pain, and an ability to reach orgasm. After  menopause , libido declines, and changes in our bodies can make it difficult to get aroused, painful to have intercourse, and impossible to climax. It's little wonder that many women become dissatisfied with sex, and some avoid intimacy entirely. Several years ago, a large national survey found that sexual activity fell precipitously with age. Fewer than half of women ages 57 to 73 said they were sexually active, and those who were had sex less than twice a month, on average. Nature didn't intend for women to be sexually active after menopause, so women have to work at it and be...