ABSTRACT
At each age—childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle age, older age—one's experiences and learnings provide an ongoing challenge for one's sexual health. Whether they are helpful or difficult experiences, learn to value these as contributions to being a sexual man. Many of the concerns and worries of one's teen years probably continued into young adulthood. With the maturity of midlife, questions frequently arise about one's career, the meaning of life, and the deeper integration of one's sexuality into one's intimate relationship. An awareness that one's life may be half over and questions of purpose are common. There are small, typical changes in sexual functioning as men grow older. The traditional cultural theme is that a real man is totally sexually confident and performs with the regularity and predictability of his teens and 20s. The erroneous belief is that anything less is a failure.
