NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say. In a study that followed nearly 1,000 older Finnish men for five years, researchers found that those who were regularly having sex at the start of the study were at lower risk of developing erectile dysfunction (Buy Viagra) by the study's end. In fact, the more often the men had sex, the lower their Buy Generic Viagra risk. The implication, say the researchers, is that men should be encouraged to stay sexually active into their golden years. Dr. Juha Koskimaki and colleagues at the University of Tampere in Finland report the findings in the American Journal of Medicine. The study included 989 men who were between the ages of 55 and 75 at the outset. Overall, those who said they had sex less than once per week were twice as likely to develop ED over the next five years as men who had sex at least once a week. Furthermore, compared with men who had sex three or more times per week, their Order Viagra risk was increased nearly four-fold. A number of factors contribute to ED development, many of which could also affect a man's sexually activity -- such as age, diabetes and heart disease. However, after taking account of those factors, sexual activity itself remained linked to Cheap Viagra risk, Koskimaki's team found. It may be a matter of "use it or lose it," according to the researchers. Just as exercise boosts physical fitness, they note, regular sexual activity may help a man preserve his erectile function. buy viagra online occurs when there are problems with blood flow to the penis. Regular sexual activity, Koskimaki's team writes, may help maintain healthy blood vessel function in the erectile tissue. SOURCE: American Journal of Medicine, July 2008.

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Sex theme park to open in London

Looks like we’re going to get a fancy new theme park in London, 10 minutes’ walk from my desk, and just over the road from the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus:

A £7m sex theme park, which has no rides, is to open in London’s West End later this year.
Visitors to Amora - The Academy of Sex and Relationships at the Trocadero in Piccadilly, will pass through seven zones including Pleasure and Orgasm. You have to be aged 18 and over to get in and tickets will cost £15 for the attraction which opens on 7 September. (Via Scalloblog.)

No rides? Really? Not even of the most obvious pun-filled variety?

The BBC’s full story is here.

Fox News has a much less attractive take on the idea.

Backers say the London Academy of Sex and Relationships (search), due to open next spring, will not be a sleazy sex museum, but an educational multimedia attraction that will teach visitors to become better lovers and provide valuable information about disease and sexual problems.

That sounds a bit too educational and scary for most tourists, who would probably rather go to the Icelandic Phallological Museum.

Personally, I’d rather go to the Sexuality Park in Guangdong, China. It’s not easy to find any record online, but the Taipei Times has archived this snippet:

China’s largest adult-only sexuality museum and combined natural theme park opened in Guangdong Province, boasting such attractions as “penis-like” rocks and “vagina-like” caves, state press reported yesterday. The 2,400m2 sex museum is located not far from Hong Kong on Danxia Mountain near Shaoguan City, and is believed to be the biggest such museum in China, Xinhua news agency said. “Danxia Mountain is well-known for its special red physiognomy and called `a naked park’ for its penis-like big stone, vagina-like cave, rocks shaped like breasts and naked `sleeping beauty,’” the report said of the park. The mountain was listed on Feb. 13 as one of the “28 world geo-parks” by the United Nations cultural arm UNESCO, the report said.

Anything would be better than the Beautiful China park we had to endure on a press trip to Guangdong five or so years ago. A vast collection of miniature replicas of China’s most famous buildings, the only thing we recognised was the Great Wall of China, which had been so scaled down it looked more like something to edge a patio.

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London on August 26th, 2004


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