New research has suggested that the sex lives of the over-45s are dwindling, and those in their 20s and 30s should be enjoying sex while they still can.

According to a poll of 1752 individuals over the age of 45 conducted by Kwai Garlic Supplement, 75% of people believe that sex goes downhill once you hit your forties.

But why? 45% said they often cut sex short due to feeling exhausted, 37% expressed they lacked the energy to perform at all and 60% admitted to not feeling sexy.

Writing in The Daily Mail, journalist Linda Kelsey disagrees that reaching 45 is a passion killer and believes that sex can be better than ever later in life. She argues that those who were polled were wrongly attributing their dull and dreary sex lives to age:  “It's not age that's responsible for their lack-lustre love lives, it's stale marriages. It's not sagging or excess flesh that's to blame, it's boredom. It's not too little energy, it's too little imagination”. Kelsey says that relationships can sour, and lack of communication and affection can kill off both sexual desire and marriages.

However, it can be easy to find yourself in a sex rut, whatever your age. To keep the passion going well into your forties and beyond, Kelsey believes it’s all about good communication and spicing things up in the bedroom: “in the throes of sexual passion, it's intimate caresses, delicious kisses and sweet talk, that make for sustained excitement. It's about abandoning yourself to the moment.”

We want to know what you think – does sex really diminish with age?

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