Sex through the decades

[rainbowduck]

Have you found that your tastes and preferences change as you mature? Are you more open to experimentation?

I used to be open to lots in my twenties, but my thirties have revolved around pregnancy and breastfeeding so I haven't felt that great about our sex life.

Am wondering if it will ever return?

Yes, I think sex has got better as I have got older, I'm more confident and more willing to try new things. I left my dh which helped a lot, he made me feel pretty rubbish about myself and sex with him was very vanilla. My sex drive is now much higher higher too.

More confident, more comfortable in myself and my body, better communication with my DH.
I was always quite willing to experiment but that did get shelved for a few years of pregnancy and young children.

Oh ladies, great responses! Gives me hope!

I would have liked to experiment more when I was younger but didn't get the chance. Got married young and had kids, my sex drive went on a long holiday. When I hit 40 it came back with a vengeance though! And in the last few years I've been lucky enough to try all sorts of things.

Teens = horny and experimental
Twenties = horny, promiscuous, experimental, (threesomes etc)

Thirties = More adventurous and still horny
Forties = Settled down a bit, more sensuous
Fifties = More sensuous/experimental, non monogamous (different to teen years)
Sixties = Getting sexier, more sapio, more liberated, non monogamous.

I saw the thread title and thought someone had researched how people had sex in the 1920s compared to say the 1980s :o.

DEFINITELY feel more confident after kids and being in my 30s, it's brilliant. It just gets better and better with DP (been together 10 years) It feels better too. We're having more sex since having a baby 5 months ago than we ever have (used to go for months without in my 20s, didn't have the urge) It's so nice to lose all the hangups and insecurity of youth.

I saw the thread title and thought someone had researched how people had sex in the 1920s compared to say the 1980s.

That would be a fantastic thread - would love to read that!

I was pretty horny and adventurous with my first boyfriend, but then had two long term relationships with men who were dear friends but who didn't do it for me sexually.

Libido flatlined during pregnancy and for a year post-partum, then came back with a vengeance, sounding the death knell for my marriage. I'm mid-thirties now, very horny, and hoping to get hornier and hornier to menopause and beyond!!

I am in my thirties now and feeling much much better (I had my children in my 20s though) and probably even better now than before children. I'm more confident and want it more. Think it happens as you get older.

Oh, just realised I forgot to say what decade I'm in! (Dirty) thirties.