‘We're 50 and having the best sex of our lives’

telegraph.co.uk:

having sex, the thought of their grandparents engaging in sexual frolics is, frankly, disgusting. I’ve thought for some time now that in many ways it’s the last sexual taboo, the 21st century equivalent of what Oscar Wilde, in reference to homosexuality, called “the love that dare not speak its name”.

And frankly that’s not good enough, certainly not for the “boomer” generation who grew up in an era of so-called sexual liberation.For the fact is that people over 60 are having sex and, most likely, in greater numbers than ever before.

With increasing divorce amongst couples in their 50s and 60s and new relationships being formed, there’s a lot of it about. Even if there aren’t the stats to tell us exactly what’s going on between the sheets, the fact that STDs are on the rise in the over-60s is evidence that hooking up in later life is the new norm.And for couples in long-term relationships, often more reluctant to talk openly than the newly single, there are potions, pills and props that make it easier to sustain sexual intimacy.

As the author of an extremely useful, and indeed moving book Love After 50: How To Find It, Enjoy It and Keep It (Simon and Schuster) Francine Russo combines personal experience, thorough research and a passionate belief that we are sexual beings throughout our lifespan to provide a compelling argument for being open and honest about sex in later life. “To the extent that people can have sex in a way that‘s comfortable for them, it should be encouraged at any age,” she says.As a former editor of Cosmopolitan, I gleaned a great deal of my own sex education from the pages of the magazine I worked on in the 1970s and 1980s, and the focus was always on the gateway to good times in your 20s and 30s.So.