By ADESOLA AYO-ADERELE
Pastor Funke Adejumo: No man wants an old bride beside him… There’s no old man anywhere.
Me: [Laughing and laughing hard!] Really?? Wow! Here’s the truth, though: Men and women age, and that is part of normal processes of life.
An ageing husband that doesn’t want an ageing wife beside him is an aberration — a fornicator and an adulterer rolled into one.
We can maintain healthy weight through sensible dietary habits, dress well if we have the money, etc., but the real ageing is evident in all the vulnerable body parts, both for men and women.
For men, penile turgidity and girth reduce with age, and the er.ect organ reduces slightly in length due to less penile elasticity occasioned by drop in blood flow, along with lower testosterone levels.
The scro.tum sags as the testicular tissue mass decreases. That is why, when a 60-year-old man sits on a toilet bowl, his low-hanging scro.tum will mostly likely touch water. And there’s hardly any sane doctor that will want to operate on you in an attempt to return your scrotum to its 30-year-old shape, else, you risk castration.
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How about male baldness—both on the head and in the pubic area? Or, for that matter, potbelly or, in the case of those with six pack up until late 40s, wrinkled stomach that looks like that of a multipara with a bad case of stretch marks?
You either accept to age gracefully or damage your body and health with all sorts of anti-ageing concoctions and processes that won’t stop ageing anyway.
Yet, all these and more are absolutely normal and to be expected as a man advances in age. So, to assert boldly that there’s no old man anywhere is to lie deliberately.
As for females, everyone on the Net is an expert on how females age, so, there’s no need to belabour the explanation here.
Of course, some women do age faster than necessary, but, check them out: they are either women who are victims of domestic abuse, struggling women whose husbands don’t care to provide for them, or women whose husbands won’t allow to do child spacing, etc.
So, if a woman looks like her husband’s mom, you can almost be certain that, that man is everything but kind to his wife.
And, as adults, the earlier we realize that we can’t possibly remain young forever, the better. If in doubt, place your recent photo against your photo of 10 years ago, and you’ll see how much ageing has dealt with you.
You either accept to age gracefully or damage your body and health with all sorts of anti-ageing concoctions and processes that won’t stop ageing anyway.
