
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Not long ago I wrote a blog called “Sex, Love, and Unicorns,” describing the ambivalence I was encountering when I talked about sex among us older folk. Everyone seemed to be embarrassed by the topic. Those who were doing it were a little sheepish and didn’t want to go public. Those who weren’t doing it were a little cynical and didn’t want to hear others sing the praises of a revitalized erotic life. It got more than 500 comments!
Several things surprised me about those comments. First of all, a good proportion of them were from men, and a good proportion of those were celebrating their partners — aging bodies and all. Why, they asked, were we women so critical of how we looked?
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