There’s been quite a lot in the press this week about age, ageism and what we should all be doing with ourselves once we have reached a time when someone else determines that we are officially old.
The government are now preventing employers from insisting that their employees retire at the age of 65. Miriam O’Reilly won her case against the BBC who had laid her off because she was a little over an alleged attractiveness at her age.
Even the middle ageds don’t get off lightly when it comes to sex. Young people are appalled that that their parents or people of their parents age (because they really cannot stomach the thought of their parents bits) are out there having sex.
There is a ridiculous assumption that sex is a young person’s domain, and that the oldies and the middle aged cannot enjoy a healthy and wonderful sex life.
If I am half way through my life then I am a very fortunate person indeed. Nonagenarian status is something that I aspire to, and I hope that whether I am physically having sex at that time or not, my mind will still be alive enough to remember and even to look at the odd pornographic photo.
Eeuchh! I can hear people screeching. A ninety year old who still thinks about sex? Unthinkable.
Well why not? Who says that just because our bodies get a little bit more tired we cannot still have a healthy brain full of exciting sexual thoughts.
I love the idea of people having sex and as I veer away from middle agedness towards the big 5-0, I rather hope that my sexual prime will continue well into my fifties and indeed my sixties.
But apparently, I may be in a minority.
But apparently, I may be in a minority.
A recent survey suggested that just 40% of women between the ages of 65 and 74 had been sexually active in the last year! Not the last week, folks, the last year. That is appalling! I feel like lending my older friends out to redress the balance and give these poor women a good seeing to.
Furthermore, the sex expert (I refuse to use the word sexpert!) Laura Godman states that “Many women will notice a loss of libido in the advent of their menopause, which generally takes place between the ages of 45 and 55”. So not only do we apparently get no sex after we are 65, we have a diminishing of excitement in the twenty years preceding this.
Furthermore, the sex expert (I refuse to use the word sexpert!) Laura Godman states that “Many women will notice a loss of libido in the advent of their menopause, which generally takes place between the ages of 45 and 55”. So not only do we apparently get no sex after we are 65, we have a diminishing of excitement in the twenty years preceding this.
It’s not looking good!
In the same report, it stated that men have, on average, 15 years more of sexual activity when they are 55, whereas women have only 10.5, which by my crude mathematics means that in order to synergise the loss of libido, a heterosexual woman should partner up with a bloke about 4.5 years older than them, or alternatively swap them for a younger model.
Or alternatively, they could ignore this generalised bollocks and get on with enjoying their sex lives rather than reading horrendous surveys that make them feel as though their life is beginning to disappear before their very eyes, assuming that they can still see as a sexagenarian!
Two dirty old rockers in or approaching their sixties have also been in the news this week with something of a sex theme.
Rod Stewart was happily parading around LA with his 39 year old wife who is heavily pregnant. Admittedly, the conception was IVF but I don’t suppose that means that old Rodney is not getting his end away.
And look how good she is looking! Voluptuous indeed.
Rod Stewart was happily parading around LA with his 39 year old wife who is heavily pregnant. Admittedly, the conception was IVF but I don’t suppose that means that old Rodney is not getting his end away.
And look how good she is looking! Voluptuous indeed.
But looking at that survey, I am beginning to worry about the girl. She will be around menopausal time just as Rodney’s libido allegedly disappears for good. I wonder if she will become one of the 60% who don’t get anything after the age of 65.
Now I know that some people are pathologically turned off by my next couple but one has to admire their determination to let the world know that old rockers and their film-making wives are still happy to fuck away into their sixties.
A few years ago, Sting and Trudie were reprimanded by many for talking tantric. At their age!
Disgusting! Horrendous! Toe-curlingly vile! – These were some of the comments that were particularly apparent at the time.
Disgusting! Horrendous! Toe-curlingly vile! – These were some of the comments that were particularly apparent at the time.
But why shouldn’t they have sex? And why shouldn’t they tell the world about it, if it educates others in post 50 sexual excitement?
So Sting and Trudie are not bashful about their sexuality. Neither are they shy about the fact that like it dirty, or indeed the fact that that they play away.
"Romantic? We like TAWDRY." They said, and good for them.
"Romantic? We like TAWDRY." They said, and good for them.
Sex is not the domain of young people. They can learn a hell of a lot from the older generations and I think those in their fifties and sixties should start educating the rest of us, and remind a very uneducated world that stupid statistics can be damn lies and should be ignored in order to live a bit and fuck a lot.
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