AS YOUR BODY CHANGES

 Inevitably, there are a number of physiological changes that take place as you age. For example, if you are over fifty, you probably need more direct stimulation of your genitals to get an erection than you did when you were younger: this is not because your sexual appetite or your attraction to your partner has disappeared, but simply because your physiology changes as you get older. Also, your erection is probably less firm and angles down more than it did when you were younger. In addition, if you ejaculate, the force of the ejaculate is less and your recovery time is longer. These changes of decreased physical strength and stamina are no different from changes in any other physical ability as you get older. You don’t expect to be able to run as fast or as far at sixty as you could at twenty. But there is one difference between sex and sports with regard to aging: your ability in bed may actually improve. Older men can actually maintain an erection longer than before (although if you lose your erection for whatever reason, it will be more difficult to regain). This will make it easier for you to satisfy your partner and to become multi-orgasmic without ejaculating. In Dunn and Trost’s recent study, half the men had become multi-orgasmic after the age of thirty-five. A number had become multi-orgasmic between the ages of forty-five and fifty-five. And the older men who had learned to become multi- orgasmic, all now over fifty, were still multi-orgasmic and going strong. Most of the western sexual literature also suggests that the intensity of the sexual experience diminishes as a man ages. This is not the case according to the Tao. The Taoists do not measure intensity according to the number of genital contractions, which do decrease as you get older. Since they recognize that sexual energy is a inhale-body affair, they judge the intensity of sex on a man's ability to cultivate and circulate his sexual energy, Which only increases as he gets  more experience. Your sexuality will no doubt change over time, and you may miss some of the feeding frenzy of youth, but the more refined pleasures of older age are just as delectable, if not more so. YOUR BODY AND SEX We hope you now understand that sexuality for the older man is not a slippery slope to sexual inadequacy. Still, you will find that you are able to climb much more easily to the peaks of pleasure if you observe the basic needs of your older body. First, a healthy body and regular exercise are essential. One reason so many people’s sex lives shrivel as they age is that their bodies become weak or ill. The wisdom of the East and all physiological studies in the West have concluded that exercise not only improves sexual ability but increases sexual desire and orgasms. Your abdomen, hips, buttocks, and thighs are especially important large muscles, as is the smaller PC muscle we discussed earlier. Keeping these muscles strong is essential for maintaining sexual vitality. Although swimming, jogging, and other Western sports are excellent ways of maintaining physical health (as long as they are not overdone), regular sex is as important, if not more so. Use it or lose it quite accurately describes the aging male body. According to the Tao, a great deal of sexual energy leaks out of our anus and buttocks. Try squeezing your buttocks together and you will see how powerful this muscle is for containing energy and sending it up your spine. The Taoist doctors considered the strength of a person’s anal sphincter an important sign of health. A loose, weak sphincter is a sign of poor health; a tight, strong sphincter, a sign of good health. You can strengthen your anus and buttocks by using the following exercise. In addition, this exercise will help you relieve stress while energizing your body and developing your sexual control. It also will help energize your prostate and Cowper's glands and circulate your blood and strengthen your erections. It has even been known to help cure hemorrhoids.