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Senior Sex Makes News

Posted by ROBERT STEIN in Society.
Jul 17th, 2008 | Comments

Cohabiting among older people increased 50 percent from 2000 to 2006, the McClatchy Newspapers report today:

“The total–1.8 million–counts only couples who live together full time and were willing to admit it to census interviewers. Part-time cohabiting–traveling together, sharing a summer house, spending weekends together–is up at least as sharply, according to seniors and people who work with them.”

This news about the growth of “love expectancy” may come as a shock to younger generations, whose sophistication does not extend to the notion that parents and grandparents, despite all the evidence of Viagra commercials, may not be immune to a culture of supersex on TV and in the movies.

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runasim

Anyone familiar with a Sr. Citizens center or nursig home will testify that love, jealousy and libidinous pursuits can be fierce at any age.

jwc

My 11 year old son came out of a Planned Parenthood class on sexuality to be met by his 8 year old brother who asked what the class had been about. He told him only to be met with "yuckkk!!" To which he replied "Everyone has sexuality. It's part of being alive." I thought "wow". I wish I was that sane.

So, yes, everyone has sexuality, even those of us in the last 1/2 or 1/3 (or whatever it turns out to be) part of our lives.

One thing that I dread is the chance of finding myself in one of those senior housing places having to deal with administrators and caregivers who are uncomfortable with their own sexuality who a being prudish with me. Last time I checked, seniors are still adults, still vote, and still have the right to express our sexuality as we see fit.

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