, in collaboration with King's College London and University College London, questioned more than 5,000 people aged 18 and older during the 2022 mpox – previously known as monkeypox – outbreak. They found that the vast majority of people had either zero or one sexual partner in the preceding three weeks, with the number reporting zero increasing significantly with age. About 65 per cent of heterosexual women reported having one partner in the last three weeks consistently until they reached 50 years of age, after which there was a steep climb in reporting no partners. Nearly four in five (79 per cent) women aged 70 or over who identified as heterosexual reported having no partners in the last three weeks. In comparison, only half of men of the same age said they had no partners, with 17 per cent of them reporting more than one recent partner in the most recent three weeks. A nuanced result Lead researcher Dr Julii Brainard, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: 'Before this study, many models about sexually transmitted diseases assumed that everyone over a certain age, say 40 or 65, stopped being sexually active, or at least stopped having multiple partners. Or there might be an assumption that young people have the most sex. 'But the answer is more nuanced, and it partly depends on people's sexuality.' Researchers questioned 5,164 British people recruited through social media and the gay dating app Grindr. Women who have sex with women and other partnership types were not investigated because only a small number responded to the survey. Some 65 per cent of straight women reported having one partner in the last three weeks consistently until they were 50, after which there was a steep climb in reporting no partners. However 42 per cent of gay men recru){kind=link}
Female respondents to survey report regular partners until 50 before steep drop off
Straight women over 70 have less sex than their male counterparts, a new study suggests, with just 21 per cent reporting sexual activity in the last three weeks.
Researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA), in collaboration with King’s College London and University College London, questioned more than 5,000 people aged 18 and older during the 2022 mpox – previously known as monkeypox – outbreak.
They found that the vast majority of people had either zero or one sexual partner in the preceding three weeks, with the number reporting zero increasing significantly with age.
About 65 per cent of heterosexual women reported having one partner in the last three weeks consistently until they reached 50 years of age, after which there was a steep climb in reporting no partners.