It's Never Too Late to Have a Sexual Awakening... Even at 70

In the article linked at salon.com an older woman (70) talks about her sexual awakening.

She says this:

“I was a nice, Jewish girl taught to believe sex was dirty. Fifteen years after my husband died, all that changed…” continued below:

“I was sexually “conservative.” Back when I was single, I let myself go a few times, but my head was mostly filled with phrases like “a nice, Jewish girl doesn’t enjoy sex.”

That was about to change. After my husband died, I went for 15 years without sex. (We were married for 15 years).

And our sex hadn’t been great when we had it, thanks to, among other reasons, my repression and a medication I was taking.

So, at age 70, I was practically a virgin. I asked my doctor to change my medication to something else, and he did. Now I wanted mad, passionate, down-and-dirty sex. But how?”

She Had To Prepare For A Sexual Awakening

“Orgasms had never come easily to me, but I had never thought of mentioning it to a doctor or therapist to see whether there was something available to help me.

Finally, I did.

My urologist, a woman, suggested I get a vibrator and some porn.

Thirty years ago, a married cousin mentioned she used a vibrator and suggested it for me. “Interesting,” I said, while scoffing at the idea.

I couldn’t imagine myself stooping that low. And I didn’t have a high regard for porn, either, labeling it as disgusting. I thought people who watched porn were either deviant, desperate or both.

Now, those judgments flew out the window. I was ready to stoop.

I drove to a specialty shop in West Hollywood. The name alone gave me heart palpitations: Pleasure Chest. But I was quite surprised when I got there.