Erectile Dysfunction

That's what we're taught.

Now, with the help of these drugs, men are able to be sexually active at a later age and, because there are fewer men than women, they have their pick of lots of partners." Winningham wants to help older men and women change their definitions of sex.

"Women go through physiological changes as we age," she says.

"Our vaginas are less elastic, have less lubrication.

Our estrogen levels decrease and vaginal intercourse can become painful.

So, she says, women have to look for pleasure in other activities like cuddling and masturbation.

Yes, the good professor is advocating what is often called "self-loving." I first heard her talk at the Looking Ahead healthy aging expo sponsored by the Orange County Alzheimer's Association on March 30.

Her audience, many of them caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer's, sat silent and seemed somewhat bemused by her remarks.

As she talked, she looked out into the gray-haired crowd and asked, "Are you with me on this?

Are you OK with this?

" I spoke right after Winningham, so I was not able to ask individual audience members what they thought.

But no one shouted out a negative.

Winningham knows there's a social stigma to masturbation.

But she believes that every human is a sexual being entitled to express that sexuali...

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