Encore: Sex & Aging

Dear Sugars

WBUR

Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The erotic lives of senior citizens are typically made invisible by our culture, which can lead to confusion and misinformation. Dr. Pepper Schwartz, the love and relationship columnist for AARP, joins the Sugars to dispel certain myths about sex and aging: Do libidos change after menopause? How does the aging body affect the way we feel about sex? Should medical interventions be considered for a declining sex drive? This episode was originally released on May 25, 2018.

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0:00.0	WBWR's last scene is back with surprising news stories about people, places, and things
0:06.1	that have gone missing, all told by tenacious public radio storytellers who refuse to let
0:11.5	mysteries go unsolved.
0:13.7	Don't miss season 3, out now.
0:16.2	Follow last scene wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:25.3	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:29.7	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:33.2	I'm Steve Olman.
0:34.4	I'm Cheryl Strayed.
0:35.4	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:37.4	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:45.6	Hi Steve.
1:10.2	Hi Cheryl.
1:11.2	Today we're doing one of those episodes like so many of our episodes that really rose
1:16.0	out of our inbox.
1:17.7	I was going through letters and preparation for this season and I came upon really a whole
1:24.8	trove of messages from people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond who were asking us about
1:33.3	sex.
1:34.3	That's right.
1:35.3	I mean this is the thing.
1:36.3	We have a culture that neuters anybody who's above 50.
1:39.8	We certainly don't discuss and we don't show images of people of that age having an erotic
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