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Getting older isn’t a bad thing.

You’ve had more life experience. You know yourself better. And you’re likely to have better sex.

That’s according to a new study from Natural Cycles, anyway, which found that women tend to have their best experiences of sex when they’re over the age of 36.

The study involved surveying more than 2,000 women, dividing them into three groups: below 23, between 23 and 36, and 36 and over.


They found that women over 36 had the best orgasms, felt the most attractive, and enjoyed sex the most.

A lot of this comes down to confidence, which you have in spades as you get older and become more comfortable with yourself.



Women in their late 30s were more confident in their own skin, while the women aged between 23 and 36 were least happy with their appearance.

The women in their late 30s had the highest number of orgasms, and the most enjoyable orgasms. Well done, them.

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Those over 36 were also found to have sex more often.

This isn’t the first time research has suggested women have glorious sex lives after 30. A previous study determined that a woman’s sexual peak is 33.

This is likely down to a number of factors. The confidence we mentioned is a big one – few things put a dampener on a sex sesh quite like worrying about what your thighs looked like, but we reckon that experimentation and an understanding of what works for you, sexually, plays a big part too.

In our thirties we’re more likely to know what we like and feel confident asking for it, while in our twenties, when we’re just starting to date, we bumble along wondering why we’re not orgasming from penetration alone (which only 30% of us do).

Now, all this doesn’t mean you’re doomed to rubbish sex until your 33rd birthday.

You can take lessons from women in their thirties and use them for your own sex life at any age. Learn what you like, stop worrying about what you look like, and feel confident in speaking up and asking for the best sex possible.

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