A very common misconception among a majority of people is that love is linked to the age of a person. They either consider it taboo to think of love beyond a certain age or they make the mistake of abstaining from any physical expression of love claiming that they are too old "for that."

But love is an attribute of life and shunning it at any age is turning your back upon one of the greatest pleasures of life. The people who cultivate and preserve a joy of loving are capable of giving accepting, and sharing love at any age. Love is a condition of mind and the capacity to love intensely shows a man's zest for life. To love is to feel young.

You need not grow colder as you grow older. I have known many persons who re-discovered their capacity of love and sexual fulfilment in their late forties or fifties and kept enjoying their sex life even beyond the age of seventy. This love is embodied in a sharing of mutual interest, an exchange of kindnesses with the growing years as a means of gaining emotional satisfaction

The adage "old is gold" is nowhere more meaningful than in the matter of love. In fact, love in the later years of life -- when the tempestuous days of youth have slipped away -- is mature, more lasting and full of understanding. It is like the river which races towards violently in the hills, but becomes broader, calmer and more beautiful in the plains. At this age, the passionate love of the youth may be missing or the sexual act itself may not be consummated, still the warmth, closeness and joy should be kept alive. Frank Caprio, a renowned psychiatrist writes, “We still prefer to drink the wine that has aged, to
smoke the pipe that has mellowed. For melody, the discerning musician chooses an old violin. Why then should we hesitate to savor life at its seasoned best? Why not make the later years both healthful and enjoyable?"

During his fifties and beyond, when the violently passionate days of youth are past; and gone is feverish zeal to prefer to excel in this competitive world has largely mellowed down, the time comes man to sit back and enjoy life with a cool and placid mind. However, many men begin to think that they are beyond the age of love. Nothing can be farther from truth. As our capacity to enjoy the good things of life like delicious food and melodious music does not diminish with age, our desire for giving or receiving love is also never extinguished.

With advancing years, we want more and more to be loved
and wanted -- to re-experience the sweet satisfaction that comes through loving and being loved. The love sex relationship remains warm and alive; the fire never goes out if man retains the zest for life. As Havelock Ellis writes: "Sex has a tendency to die in the middle years only in couples who are unimaginative and where sex has become routine."

Develop love-sex appeal. It means developing the kind of personality that makes you lovable and erotically attractive to the opposite sex -- what is generally called sexuality. A person with sexuality possesses physical attributes that make him or her appealing to the opposite sex as his positive attitude to sex automatically bestows upon him a magnetic personalty.

Love, happiness and sexual harmony are allied. Sexual
compatibility in marriage is the cement between the bricks of love. The husband and wife who are sexually well mated are more inclined to experience love happiness.

Don’t be obsessed with the idea that you do not have the ability to make love. Learn to experience the emotion of love within yourself. You will soon discover that you will want to and can love someone else. Self-love (the normal type) should precede man-woman love.