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So, you wonder if the race of b*tchy women is increasing..hmm...maybe.
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Let me try to convey my thinking clearly as I know what I want to say, but not sure if it will get conveyed properly ...

Women today are much different from woman say just 10-20 years ago. Call it "womens liberation", call it "womens empowerment", call it whatever you like. Increasingly, women are taking a more "masculine" role in our society (i.e., working more, entrenching themselves in traditional male roles - even becoming "stronger" in the assertive sense), while at the same time men are losing a lot of the things that have defined them as men in the past, and the two may be just coincidental or, as I believe, proportionally linked.

What I think is happening is that men are psychologically losing themselves today as their traditional roles in a family (and even society) are being threatened with extinction. I fear us men are slowly becoming less beneficial as women become more entrenched in traditional male roles, along with legislation/laws/judgements that further erode our traditional place in society. As I mentioned before, men - especially as we age - become more psychologically attached to sex, so I think the two are butting heads, therefore, the decline in sexual drive.

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Also, what exactly is "middle-aged" in a society that is living 1,2,3 decades longer than in history?
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I would define middle-aged to be roughly 35-55 years of age. Even the article mentioned 30-50 which is slightly skewed lower, IMHO.

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Besides, this is one study, Im sure there are plenty on females and their decreasing drives. I hear it all the time. Its the relationship that affects everything.

Goes both ways.
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I think it goes without saying that if a man is not having sex with his partner, he's either getting it on the side, or not getting it from anyone else period, so I would agree just in that vein of thinking.

One important thing to take away from this is that it breaks from traditional thinking that men in general are sex hounds (maybe in the 15-25 yr old range).

More importantly, there is a study that definitively shows that there is a sharp decrease in sexual drive on men as they age due most likely from psychological affects. Further, the affects are such that they no longer have the urge to "get it on" with their partner.