即便是停經了，許多女人仍渴望享受魚水之歡

A new study from the Women’s Health Initiative has found that, contrary to popular belief, older women are generally satisfied with their sex lives -- and if they do have a problem, it’s because they’d like to be having more sex. 
在美國"女性健康創見"雜誌最近進行的一項調查中發現，老女人普遍對她們的性生活頗為滿意，這項調查結果與一般人的想法恰巧相反，該調查報告相信，這可能是因為老女人們希望有多一點的性生活，因此，一旦有性生活時，她們普遍都會相當滿意。 


The study, released this month and featured in the Menopause journal, asked 27,347 women aged 50 to 79 a series of questions about how they perceive sexual activity and their own sex lives. Results from the study indicated sexual activity among 50 to 59-, 60 to 69-, and 70 to 79-year-old age groups to be 60.7 percent, 44.9 percent and 28.2 percent, respectively. 
這份調查報告係本月由"停經"期刊所發佈，在這項調查中，總共徵詢了27,347名50歲到79歲間的婦女，調查她們對對性生活的看法及她們目前性生活的狀態。調查結果顯示，年齡在50-59歲間的婦女，性生活的比例為60.7%；年齡在60-69歲間的婦女，性生活的比例為44.9%；年齡在70-79歲間的婦女，性生活的比例則為28.2%。 


Most of the study’s participants were satisfied with their current sex lives (63.2 percent). Of those dissatisfied, 57 percent responded that they would like to be having more sex, not less. The most common reasons sited by participants who said they were not sexually active were poor health, depression and loss of a partner. 
63.2%的受訪者都對目前的性生活滿意，在不滿意的受訪者中，有57%認為，她們希望有更多的性生活，而並非如一般人所想的更少，而無法獲得滿意的性生活的普遍原因是：健康不佳、憂鬱與失去性伴侶。 


 “This is the first study that indicates that [older] women would actually like to have more sex,” Gisele Wolf-Klein, MD, director of geriatric education at the North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y., told WebMD. Though she was not involved in the study, she went on to note, “We know sexual activity decreases with age, and we do attribute that to lack of a partner, but we thought that women were kind of happy with this. That it didn’t represent a major problem. Well, that does not seem to be the case." 
"這是第一次有研究報告顯示，老女人其實也希望有更多的性生活，"紐約州新海德公園北海岸健康系統的老年病教育中心主任吉斯利‧凱倫博士說。雖然，她本人並未親自參加這項調查，但是她指出，"我們知道性活動會隨著年齡的增加而降低，但是，那多半是由於缺乏性伴侶所造成，基本上，女人對性活動仍是有興趣的，老女人並非沒有能力從事性活動。 


The study disproves long-held assumptions in the medical and business communities about older women’s sexual activity and desires -– assumptions that have motivated market trends and an influx of products aimed at improving women’s sex lives. The study confirmed that a decrease in hormone levels related to menopause does not necessarily impinge on a women’s ability to maintain a healthy sex life. 
這項研究報告否定了長久以來醫學界與商業界對於老女人性活動與性欲的假定，而此一假定創造了一個改善女人的性生活的市場，同時更催生了一系列的相關產品。這項研究報告同時也確認了一個事實：雖然女人停經後，體內的女性賀爾蒙量會下降，但是，這不一定會影響女人從事性活動的能力。