Abstract

SUAREZ VASALLO, Emma; QUINONES CHAVEZ, Caridad  and  ZALAZAR ALVAREZ, Yohana. Eroticism related to old age. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3038.

INTRODUCTION: eroticism is the sexuality element identifying the experiences known the sexual ones by the pleasant behavior of body experiences personally lived and the interaction with others. OBJECTIVES: to identify some features of eroticism in third age (erogenous zones, presence or not of sexual activity, type of frequency of sexual intercourse in married old age persons). METHODS: authors made a descriptive and of non-intervention study. Sample included 205 old age patients seen in "Aleida Fernández" polyclinic of La Lisa municipality in Havana City from January to May, 2008. RESULTS: among the main results we had that married state predominated in women, the main erogenous zones were the genitals ones, there was a 57,3% of married women, and a 70 % of married men with sexual activity, the frequency of predominating sexual intercourse was the fortnightly, and the type of predominating sexual intercourse was the penetration in married adult men. CONCLUSIONS: genitals were the main erogenous zone explored by both sexes, the frequency of more frequent sexual intercourse was the fortnightly one, and the type of sexual intercourse was the penetration.

Keywords : Eroticism; erogenous zones; physiologic changes; sexuality.

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