Adorable? Me? Since when do a couple of smooching seniors get that label?
Apparently when young people quiver at the notion of seniors having sex.
Carol Larson offers this commentary on the ageist idea that getting older makes us sex-less.
In this presentation featured at the 2018 Healthy Aging Summit, Michael Lee Smith holds the view that sexually active “olders” are healthier and happier. But adds, that doesn’t necessarily mean sex, that intimacy is the real key. Lee Smith shares stories of his early research days at the Kinsey Institute, his grandmother’s new man, and ways to reframe and redefine healthy sexuality as we age.
Thanks to:
-The Wisconsin Initiative for Healthy Aging
-Michael Lee Smith, PhD Associate Director of the Center for Population Health and Aging, and Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M
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I’m too shy to try anything “adorable “ anymore but am sort of feeling the same way every time some middle aged vegetable drinking beer on the dock calls me “spry” for doing something graceful, skillful, balletic on my boat.