Contrary to popular belief, divorcees get more sex than either married or single people, according to a survey of British bedroom habits.
Not only that, but retirees get more action than those still at work, the UK’s Daily Telegraph reported.
The astonishing results, from a survey of more than 1800 Britons commissioned by the UK’s Stella magazine, showed that 11 percent of divorcees had sex more than 21 times a month, almost twice as much as married people and more than any other group, including cohabiting couples and single people.
The online survey also found that that 22 percent of men over the age of 55 had taken the impotency drug Viagra and that 37 percent of women owned a sex toy.
Trust was said to be the most important part of any relationship, beating off competition from companionship, humour and financial stability, with sex in a lowly fifth place.
“There is a lot of rebound sex among divorcees, a sense among men perhaps that they are now ‘off the leash’,” said Rosie Campbell, a social psychologist with consultancy Campbell Keegan.
“When you consider that anyone reaching retirement age now will be a baby boomer who is fitter, more active and wealthier than previous generations at the same age, it is hardly surprising they are having more sex,” she said.
“[English poet] Philip Larkin said sex was invented in 1963, so anyone retiring now is likely to be much less embarrassed about sex and not willing to accept a decline with age.”
The survey also found that on average married couples have sex nine times a month, that 34 percent of Britons said that the best sex of their lives was between the ages of 25 and 34.
Twenty-five percent of people had been unfaithful, with 29 percent of men and 21 percent of women admitted to having had an affair. Those aged 18 to 24, on the other hand, were much more faithful with only 10 percent confessing to cheating.
