With age, the immune response to infection decreases, so that old people become more susceptible to infections, and minor illnesses may be more severe and lead to longer periods of restricted activity. It is possible that this change may be reduced if a nutritious balanced diet is eaten.

After the age of 70, your temperature control mechanisms become less efficient, and you feel the cold more easily. From this time on, too, your muscles begin to lose their power, and your manual dexterity decreases.

In spite of these changes, there is no truth in the belief that the mental capacity of most older people diminishes. A healthy man of 67, unless he has hypertension or arteriosclerosis, can learn a new subject as easily as a 17-year-old, although he takes longer to learn it. This is because the speed of acquisition of knowledge declines with age. In an experiment in Australia, a group of 70-year-old students learned German, using the same books and classes, as successfully as a group of 15-year-olds, at least as judged by examination results. Older people are disadvantaged as they have been conditioned to believe that they are less able to learn and that they are less competent mentally. Because of this, they may refuse to test themselves for fear of failure. Although older people learn more slowly, their greater experience in arranging their thought processes may compensate for this. Older people’s speed of recall is also diminished, but ‘tricks’ may help them to overcome the defect.

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The degree to which homosexuals are affected by the hostile attitudes of society should not be exaggerated. Even though newspapers and magazines constantly allude to homosexuals as demoralized, deviant, degenerate, or perverted, and are happy to report sensational cases of child molestation or sex murders, which in turn help to maintain an adverse climate of opinion towards homosexuality, the majority of homosexuals live quiet, unobtrusive, ‘normal’ lives, hoping to be invisible in society; or else form into protective groups against a generally hostile world.

Even when living these quiet lives, fear of discovery or fear of oppression lurks constantly, and the internalization of social hostility may make a loving relationship more difficult. These observations are reminders that homosexuals are an oppressed group.

The ignorance of most of society towards homosexuality extends to their sexual behaviour. It is believed by some, for example, that anal intercourse is the only way a homosexual man obtains sexual enjoyment. Many sexual contacts between homosexual men are not anal. Most homosexual men enjoy mutual pleasuring and oral-penile stimulation, each partner in turn sucking the other’s penis so that each reaches orgasm. If anal intercourse takes place, in most relationships the partners alternate in passive and active roles.

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Disease which are transmitted from person to
person during sexual intercourse used to be called ‘venereal diseases’. Today the preferred term is ‘sexually transmitted diseases’. Venereal disease sounds dirty; and in many people’s minds implies that a man has had sex with a prostitute.

Today it is known that a person is more likely to get one of the sexually transmitted diseases by having sex with a friend than by paying a prostitute.

There are at least eight diseases which are sexually transmitted and, initially, usually affect the genitals, although some of them, if not treated, can have serious effects on general health. The diseases are gonorrhoea, non-specific urethritis (NSU), syphilis, genital herpes, trichomoniasis, candidosis, genital warts, and chancroid.

Since most people have intercourse with a partner who is of the other sex, both men and women usually are infected with equal frequency. But there are some differences. NSU, for example, is a disease which infects men exclusively. Trichomoniasis and candidosis infect women much more commonly than men.

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One night in the back seat of his car the girl permitted him to make love to her. He was aroused by the petting, desperate to put his penis in her vagina. This necessitated some fumbling and just when he succeeded, he thought he heard someone coming down the lane towards the car. With extraordinary rapidity he reached orgasm, ejaculated, and withdrew, zipping up his trousers and moving along the back seat of the car away from his partner.

In the next few years, John was sexually active. But each time he had sexual intercourse, he found that he came very quickly: usually two or three thrusts and he had ejaculated. Several times he found he came even before he had inserted his penis into his partner’s vagina. Most of the women John knew were as sexually uninformed as he was and accepted this as normal, but one affair ended disastrously when the woman laughed at John’s rapid ejaculation and demanded sexual satisfaction herself. John considered her to be an over-sexed woman, unlike the ‘nice’ girls he usually knew.

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In the laboratory the quality of the seminal fluid is assessed by measuring its volume, the number of spermatozoa in it, how long they remain active, and how many have abnormal shapes or sizes.

Examination of many thousands of specimens, from men who have had children, has enabled scientists to find out what can be considered a ‘normal’ sperm count.

The results show that a man is fertile if he has more than 2 millilitres of seminal fluid; if each millilitre contains more than twenty million spermatozoa; if, after four hours, more than 40 per cent of the spermatozoa are active – which means that their tails are still thrashing about – and if more than 60 per cent have a normal shape.

If any of these measurements are below normal the man is subfertile; and if he has no spermatozoa at all, he is sterile.

At first it was thought that a single examination enabled a doctor to decide if the man was subfertile or sterile. It quickly became apparent that an examination of a single specimen was not sufficient to make the diagnosis. This is because the quantity of the seminal fluid and the sperm count, (which are the two most important measurements as far as male fertility is concerned) can vary considerably. A diagnosis of subfertility, or sterility, is made only after three specimens produced at intervals of at least one week have been examined.

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