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© 1981 Oxford University Press

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FACTORS RELATED TO SEXUAL INTERCOURSE FREQUENCY IN A GROUP OF FRENCH RRE-RETIREMENT MANAGERS

JANINE VALLERYMASSON, Ingénieur, ALAIN J. VALLERON and JEAN POITRENAUD

Unité de Recherches Gérontologiques U.118 de I'INSERM et Centre de Gérontologie Claude-Bernard, 29, rue Wilhem, 75016 Paris, France
Maitre de Recherche Laboratoire de Biostatistique de I'Université Paris VII INSERM U.21, France
Chargé de Recherche Unité de Recherches Gérontologiques U.118 de I'INSERM et Centre de Gérontologie Claude-Bernard 29, rue Wilhem, 75016 Paris, France

A group of 175 managerial Parisian males, 63 or 64 years old, still working full time were questioned about their sexual activity during a standardized medical examination. Twenty subjects in this group we impotent (ISs), the others, sexually potent (PSs), had had intercourse at least once during the course of the year. Distribution of PSs according to yearly frequency of sexual intercourse (YFSI) fits well with a log-normal distribution. Twenty-two factors assessing psychosocial variables, personality traits and measures of the state of health were studied. Stepwise procedures were used to select sequentially first the variables which best differentiate PSs from ISs, second the variables which best allow us to predict the YFSI among PSs. In our sample of elderly men, sexual potency and also YFSI are closely linked to age at the first intercourse and to certain personality traits. The state of health does not differentiate ISs from PSs, but is significantly linked to YFSI among PSs.


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