Women Get Better With Age

Maybe you can't imagine it, but for millions of women who've reached "a certain age," sex just seems to get better with time. One of the joys of being a mature diva is having lived with yourself long enough to know who you are and what you want--and to have the heart to practice what you desire. What else can a truly mature diva do?

The erotic impulse has nothing to do with age. If you can breathe, you can feel sexy and be sexual.

For many women, once menstruation stops and they no longer have to worry about pregnancy, they feel free! Sex and sexuality take on a more global perspective--if you get my meaning.

In fact, my research and conversations with mature divas in the know strongly, indicate that the years past age 50 can be a time for exploring the wonders of sex at deeper and more satisfying and confident levels than ever before. With sex, getting older means getting better--knowing what you enjoy, what you don't enjoy, knowing how to give pleasure, knowing bow to receive pleasure.

Of course our society doesn't exactly go out of the way to assure mature women of their wonderfulness. Too many hurtful myths and jokes ridicule the woman over 50 who dares see herself as sexually attractive. There are still too few looks, TV shows or films about the positive experiences of sexually active mature women.

I've often wondered how much of this negativity--in our male-dominated society--is based on male envy of our physical ability to continue to have sex well past menopause, because for men growing older often means impotence. But despite the negativity, women over 50 continue telling one another stories--over the phone, at the Laundromat, at the office--about the joy of their continuing sexuality.