A few more thoughts on "sex and the older woman"
Here, for reference, is a partial list of benefits of sex—and what older women who give up an an active sex life are missing out on:
Drs. Oz and Roizen: Why having sex is good for you
When Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Brunnhilde (in the opera "Siegfried") are brought to life with the magic of a kiss, well, that's not so far-fetched. The biological and psychological shifts that hugs, kisses and makin' whoopee trigger are good for the body and soul.
Here's our rundown of the benefits:
- Intimate touches stimulate the hormone oxytocin (made in the hypothalamus), and that elixir of love reduces pain, lowers blood pressure, eases depression, makes you sleep better, forges social bonds and increases generosity. Wow!
- Regular sexual activity ups blood levels of the antibody immunoglobulin A. That improves respiration and boosts immune strength to protect you from infections and allergies.
- It protects against heart attack and stroke; men who have sex three or more times a week cut their risk in half. And men who are the most sexually active seem to be protected against prostate cancer later in life.
- Passion burns excess calories -- up to 200 per romp; and orgasms (sometimes multiple for women) release muscle tension. Plus, women and men who enjoy sex three times a week look up to 10 years younger than those who have it less frequently.
- And last, but hardly least, when shared with love and trust, physical closeness ups self-esteem. So, want the benefits? Get touched (and touch)! No partner? Go for a massage. Pet a dog or cat. Enjoy physical exercise -- stimulating the muscles and hormones in any way at all is great for you!
-- Mehmet Oz, M.D. is host of "The Dr. Oz Show," and Mike Roizen, M.D. is Chief Medical Officer at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute. For more information go to
www.RealAge.com.
Like other brothers, I've often run into attitudes on the part of older women that I find discouraging and self-defeating:
1. Many postmenopausal single women—perhaps the majority—seem to have given up on a sex life and react irritably to sexual overtures. And, as mimi herself stresses, the "use it or lose it" rule tends to apply: an older woman's sexuality, once dormant for years, may not be easy to switch on again.
2. Even those matures that want to hang on to an active sex life often don't (and sometimes can't) do what it takes to stay attractive, with respect to such things as fitness, makeup, dress, avoidance of glasses or smiliness. I always give an older woman major points if she's highly sexual—provided she also makes an effort to be reasonably pleasing to a man's eye.
3. Attractive women could afford to be sexually picky for most of their lives—and even with advancing age, too many of them don't kick the habit of approaching us men with expectations few of us can realistically meet.
4. A mature woman, in my experience, rarely breaks out of the BF/GF mold of wanting a man who's both emotionally and sexually focused only on her. Occasionally, when I get interest from an age-appropriate woman and tell her that I have a GF but would enjoy a casual encounter, she almost always draws back. (Happened to me yesterday again!)
5. Mature women—who came by sex easily in their younger years—often lack practice, courage and humility to take determined initiative to seek out sexual opportunities under changed circumstances.
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This thread offers quite a few suggestions for how a female mature can locate suitable male sex partners: e.g. via CL "casual encounters" (or similar sites), in pubs or night classes, through acquaintance networks or in female sex-tourist havens.
I fully agree with mimi: none of this is remotely as convenient as us guys scanning through ERSlist. But honestly, I can't help thinking someone with her qualities could find good free sex if she only wanted it half as badly as most of us pooners want sex. I've just gone halfway around the world to go to the sex I want: I don't expect it to come to me.
And did anyone mention swinger clubs and swinger websites? Most of these welcome women of all ages, sizes, looks—and swinger clubs strive to create a safe, respectful environment for single women.
Another suggestion mentioned was dancing. For 20 yrs now I've met most of my SOs and civvies through dancing. True, there aren't too many dancehalls outside Vancouver, and women tend to outnumber men in dance classes (though rarely at social dances).
But male dancers almost always see dancing as the vertical expression of a horizontal desire and are easily recruited for a tumble between the sheets by any reasonably attractive mature with a bit of chutzpa.
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I enjoy watching "matures" porn. I've often thought, "How come none of the matures I meet are like that?"
Mimi's thread infuses me with new hopefulness—that matures aren't all a lost cause for someone like me.