This is a genuine question about something which has been happening to me for several years now. I would like to know if it happens to other men and if anyone can shed light on why. I am a heterosexual (straight) man in my early 70's. I am still wonderfully sexually active both with my partner and masturbation. I started masturbating to orgasm at 13, had my first sexual relationship with a woman at 17 and my first fuck at 19. I am fit, exercise regularly and eat a healthy diet. For several years now (10-15) since my mid to late 50's I have experienced periods of hypersexuality lasting anything from a few days to 2 or 3 weeks. During these phases I experience the following- I think about sex and masturbation almost continuously throughout the day I have heightened sexual awareness I want to have sex and/or masturbate constantly and will masturbate several times a day if I can I spend a lot of time looking at porn and researching sexual topics on line I have an intensified desire/need to write about sex in online forums or talk about it These phases occur every few months, about 2 - 4 times a year. There are no indicators beforehand that they are going to happen and I am not aware of any physical, emotional or psychological factors that trigger or attend them. They do not diminish they just end as suddenly and unannounced as they began. I assume that they might be hormonal but never experienced them in my younger years. It is commonly understood that boys in their teens are highly hormonal, experience frequent arousal often with no direct cause and masturbate constantly. This diminishes in adulthood and it is expected that as men pass middle age sexual need reduces. Yet I am experiencing periods of heightened need and awareness similar to that of my youth though periodic and of short span. Any ideas? Your opinions, experiences and insights would be greatly appreciated. James
I’m 47 and I’ve always been on the hypersexual side. I can’t go for long without touching my penis and I think constantly that I need to masturbate for at least a few minutes. When I was younger I could ejaculate multiple times in a day. Now that I’m getting older I don’t need to ejaculate as often. Maybe every couple of days is plenty unless my body wants it more often. I just realized that it’s been a few days so I should definitely let myself ejaculate today.
While not really proven or accepted it is thought the human goes through cycles called biorhythms. A doctor, Wilhelm Fliess, came up with the concept that there are body rhythms that begin at birth. All throughout ones life these rhythms oscillate from neutral to high and back through neutral to low and back. It's a wave pattern that follows a time cycle. It's thought that men go through a sexual cycle every 23 days. Women, 28 days, which relates to their menstrual cycle. There are other cycles such as physical, intellectual, emotional, and others that have different time lengths. According to theory when the human is at the peak of their cycle they perform the best. It can be related to a baseball player that goes into a slump for a while and can't get a hit no matter how hard they try. Then gloriously one day they come out of it. This may hold true for the sex cycle. There are times during the cycle I am just horny as shit. But at the other end, even though I could fuck at the drop of a hat, I'm not all that amped up. It may not be that noticeable but it could be there. I give a lot to this speculation even though it hasn't been widely accepted that there is such a thing. But ball players to a man go into slumps. Women can be on a very regulated menstrual cycle where they have peaks and valleys of horniness. I feel Dr Fliess wasn't that far off in his theory. He is the catalyst for Sigmund Freuds ideas of innate bisexuality. This discovery lends me to think there may be something to these biorhythms.
I definitely believe in that cycle. I am 62 (or will be in less than a month). I too will go through periods where I am sexually ramped up and thinking about it all the time. At the moment I am in a down cycle. I still think about it, but the desire to masturbate just isn't there. Yes, I still walk around naked all the time and grab myself pretty much all day, but the desire to start stroking, get hard, and shoot a wad just isn't there. Hopefully this will subside and I will get back into the swing of things.
