by SUZANNE HARRINGTON
Sex. It’s not just for movie stars, the young, the birth controlled, the reproducing, newlyweds, newlymets, Rick Santorum, or the people upstairs. Our parents are doing it. And so are theirs.
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odern culture is preoccupied with sex. Sex, sex, sex. It’s everywhere. We’re obsessed with it. There are just two groups at opposite ends of the demographic for whom sex is verboten: those under 16, for obvious reasons, and those over a certain age because well, the idea of oldie sex is kind of hideous, isn’t it? Old people don’t have sex, do they?
Of course they do. It’s just that it’s one of our last erotically incorrect taboos. We’d rather not go there. Plus we’re so busy slavering over youth—and figuring out ways to preserve it—to even acknowledge the existence of wrinkly sex. But that doesn’t mean older people stop being interested in it. According to The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting by Marie de Hennezel, when someone asked the German princess Elizabeth Charlotte at what age did sexual desire fade away, she answered, “How should I know? I’m only 80!” 12
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MARCH 1, 2012
