A sexual peak refers to those moments when you’re feeling frisky, confident and ready for sex – these periods are commonly described as hitting your sexual maturity, desire and competence. But are they even real? Studies suggest that sexual peaks are actually just a myth, and have been promoted as fact by magazines and websites claiming to have the answers on how to reach yours every day. Most magazines claim that men reach their sexual peak as teenagers, at 18 years of age to be exact, and women have to wait until their 30s before they find their peak. It’s easy to see why this myth has survived so long, and why ‘sexperts’ claim that men and women think about sex and mature so differently. However, these facts are anything but – they’re simply myths which aim to separate men and women and highlight their differences.
So far as hormones are concerned, sexual peaks do exist – in men, testosterone levels reach their apex at the age of 18 or thereabouts, while women hit the oestrogen peak at mid to late-20s. These stages are known by experts as genital prime, when the body responds best to arousal. But as far as sexual prime goes, this isn’t the case. Studies show that it’s difficult to pinpoint the certain age that a person reaches their sexual peak, as this varies from person to person. What’s normal for one person will be wildly different for another. This stage is a combination of psychological attributes and physical experience and factors – there is simply little way of determining an average age for this for either gender. We can only know what is ‘normal’ for us, and assume that we’ve reached our sexual peak when we can attribute the utmost levels of desire and confidence that we know to be the case in terms of our sexual history.
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