‘Modern Love’: Gen X? More Like Gen Sex.

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

At 46, Mireille Silcoff divorced her partner of 21 years, and went on to have more sex and better sex than she’d ever had before. She soon realized she wasn’t the only woman her age in the midst of a sexual renaissance.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, it's Anna. Just a quick warning, there's a bit more swearing in this episode than usual.
0:05.1	So if you're listening with kids, maybe wait until later.
0:09.1	Love now and...
0:10.6	Did you fall in love last?
0:11.6	I love love him.
0:12.2	Love was stronger than anything.
0:14.4	You feel of love.
0:15.4	And I love you more than anything.
0:18.7	What a love!
0:19.4	Love.
0:31.2	Everywhere I look right now, there seem to be articles and books about women in middle age,
0:38.0	with titles like Rediscovering Desire in Perimenopause, or middle age is sexy now.
0:43.5	Plus, of course, you have the wild success of Miranda July's novel All Fours.
0:50.5	Women in their 40s and 50s are being centered in the cultural conversation in a way they've never been before.
0:52.7	But why?
0:57.3	I mean, women entering middle age going through menopause, that's not a new phenomenon. So what is it about this generation of women that's making this life transition
1:03.6	seem so sexy? And what can other generations learn from this one? Enter writer Marais Silcoff.
1:18.6	There is something real happening here with women who are older, and it has to do with power.
1:27.2	It doesn't have to do with being like a young
1:30.6	person. It has to do with being like an older person. Marais is a writer from Montreal, Canada,
1:37.5	who recently wrote an article for the New York Times magazine called Why Gen X Women are
1:42.2	having the Best Sex.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 19 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The New York Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The New York Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.