The drive towards "sexual completion" continues throughout one's life. It is a "gift of aging" that civilized control of our urges becomes easier: not because desire decreases so much, as the simple fact that we cannot or will not "live up to those urges."
All night love-making sessions? Hah-- impossible, when the body aches after an hour of easy exercise! So the body at first let's us down -- and not very easily -- but then the public perception of our abilities, and the subsequent embarrassment if we are sexual or flirtatious, is destructive of our self-esteem as well. Damned if we do; damned if we try!
So sex doesn't die -- it just finds ways to hide. Gifts of imagination -- or gifts given without acknowledgment? Both ways to fill the urge...quietly.
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