Brian Austin Green has opened up about how aging has reshaped his sex life and his entire approach to relationships.
The “Beverly Hills, 90210” alum, 53, tackled a listener’s frank question on the iHeartRadio podcast “I Do, Part 2” in an episode released Saturday. The email asked whether men notice their sex drive diminishing as they get older, and Green answered with unvarnished candor.
“‘As men age, do you notice that your sex drive is lowering?’ Sure, absolutely, of course,” he responded. “That is a chemical thing. That is testosterone. That is what men, as they age, start naturally losing.”
He continued on the podcast, “You can take supplements and you can, you know, go the opposite direction. But, to me, honestly, absolutely. Sex drive lowers. There’s no way to avoid that. I didn’t ask for it.”
Green, who has been engaged to former “Dancing With the Stars” pro Sharna Burgess, 41, since July 2023, traced how his priorities in the bedroom have shifted dramatically over time. Where youth brought preoccupation with his own experience, maturity has redirected his attention outward.
“I am way less concerned with how I feel in it and my own insecurities and I’m way more concerned about how she feels and that I’m doing things that she truly likes,” he explained on “I Do, Part 2” last month. “And I’m also not doing things she doesn’t like.”
That emotional recalibration has replaced raw physical urgency as the center of intimacy for him. “It’s not just the physical act the same way,” he noted in Saturday’s episode. “It’s the connection.”
This evolution in thinking follows a painful personal history. Green was married to Megan Fox, 40, from 2010 to 2021, and the couple share three children — Noah, 13, Bodhi, 12, and Journey, 10. He also has a 24-year-old son, Kassius, with ex Vanessa Marcil. With Burgess, he welcomed son Zane, now 4, in June 2022.
Looking back at his marriage to Fox, Green acknowledged on the podcast last month that physical attraction had been the foundation from the start. “My ex and I were together for almost 15 years,” he shared. “We were married for almost 10 years. I led with physical attraction.”
He admitted that pattern of gravitating toward being “physically attracted to somebody and then sort of build a relationship around that” was one he deliberately set out to dismantle after their split. As a divorced father reentering the dating pool, he wanted something different.
“I think when you started from a place of a genuine connection with someone, then you’re not so concerned about whether they are truly into you or not,” he said about his desire to be friends first before dating.
That philosophy shaped how he and Burgess began. Green revealed they “put it all on the table” early, exchanging unflinching assessments of their best and worst qualities before committing.
“Your approach to a relationship is the best way to know if it’s just a purely physical connection,” he reflected. “That’s only going to last for so long [before] you’re going to get to a point where you go, ‘I can’t stand that other person. So they’re not hot to me anymore.'”
Green and Burgess continue co-hosting “I Do, Part 2,” where they field listener questions about marriage, divorce, and rebuilding partnership after previous relationships end.