Sex & Aging — With Dr. Pepper Schwartz
Dear Sugars
WBUR
4.5 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2018
⏱️ 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?
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| 0:00.0 | The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick. |
| 0:09.8 | The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Steve Olman. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm Cheryl Strayed. |
| 0:15.6 | This is Dear Sugar's. |
| 0:17.6 | Oh dear son, won't you please? |
| 0:26.3 | Yeah, some little sweet days would be. |
| 0:33.3 | I check my bell vibes every day. |
| 0:41.3 | Oh, and this sugar, using my way. |
| 0:49.3 | Hi Steve. |
| 0:50.3 | Hi Cheryl. |
| 0:51.3 | So today we're doing one of those episodes, like so many of our episodes, that really |
| 0:55.8 | rose out of our inbox. |
| 0:57.9 | I was going through letters and preparation for this season and I came upon really a whole |
| 1:05.0 | trove of messages from people in their 50s, 60s, 70s and beyond who were asking us about |
| 1:13.4 | sex. |
| 1:14.4 | That's right. |
| 1:15.4 | I mean, this is the thing. |
| 1:16.5 | We have a culture that neuters anybody who's above 50. |
| 1:19.9 | We certainly don't discuss and we don't show images of people of that age. |
| 1:24.8 | We're doing an erotic life, having an erotic imagination. |
| 1:27.4 | And when you suggested the show, I thought about two books that I'd read within the last |
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