Many of our media icons are forty and fifty plus. They are making the effort to bring the issue of sexuality as we age to the forefront. AARP regularly features articals about sex/sexuality.
There was a report on the news just last week about a new group of people being affected by AIDS; postmenapausal women. Some women who are not in a monogamous relationship and no longer have a need for birth control are not using condoms and in some cases are turning up HIV positive. The woman being interviewed was nearing her sixtys. She said that AIDS was the last thing to cross her mind when she had a tryst with a friend years after being widowed.
I do agree, however, that there is the "celibate as we age" attitude that denigrates sexual growth into our senior years. It is perpetuated mostly by a societal belief that worships youth and constantly seeks replacements for those who have aged beyond it's tightly constrained views of youth and beauty. When men and women stop buying into the myth that youth is better than aging, the elders in this society will be in a better position to provide their youths a solid foundation in which to build their sexuality.
Cinema~on her soapbox this morning.
I don't mind the sun sometime
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and Sugar
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through someone elses eyes
BHS-"Pepper"
