Orgasms After 40: How to Make Them Better and More Frequent

[The second in a series of excerpts from our forthcoming book, Sex After 40]

Experts agree that people over 40 basically experience three kinds of orgasms:

1. The Dead Man's Last Hurrah, where one partner struggles for fulfillment while pinned under the dead weight of the other, who has fallen asleep in mid lunge. Two problems here. First, this is inexcusable.  Second, it could have a devastating impact on alimony payments sometime in the future.
2. Runners Take Your Mark.  The most common orgasm among struggling 40s, it occurs from 3 to 11 seconds after the start of intercourse.  Nonetheless, frazzled 40s are happy to have the 11 seconds all to themselves.
3. A Night at the Opera is an orgasm that could be set to music.  Nothing short of a passion play, it is accompanied by high-pitched, reedy wailing, an excess of emotion, and deep, penetrating sobs of gratitude.  The woman person is also happy.  This one is the gold standard.

It is not a surprise that many people over 40 are either dissatisfied with the quality of their orgasm and want to make them better, or with the quantity of their orgasms and want to have more of them. Like learning to play the bagpipes, this is a matter of practice, alone in a room, where no one can hear you.