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Dating While Gray™

Sex On My Mind

Dating While Gray™

Laura Stassi

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.4650 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Maybe we’re doing it, maybe we’re not. Maybe we want to, maybe we don’t. We might be thinking about it … intimacy coach Anna Marti offers insights for all of us, plus Cate and other listeners share their concerns.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are there other people out there experiencing a kind of ambivalence about sexuality, despite what all the articles about hot sex into your 80s are telling us.

0:21.6

There was less and less bad sex until there was no sex at all.

0:28.6

I don't know what it's like really out there, but I'm wondering if there is a lot of expectation on the sexual part because I wouldn't want to do that right away.

0:40.5

Maybe we're doing it, maybe we're not.

0:43.2

Maybe we want to.

0:44.8

Maybe we don't.

0:46.7

We might be thinking about it.

0:49.7

Sex on My Mind.

0:51.2

That's this episode of Dating While Gray, the grown-ups guide to love sex and

0:54.9

relationships. I'm Laura Stasi. I talked with a Canadian listener recently. Let's call her Kate.

1:04.7

She's in her early 60s. When Kate was in college, she met a young man at church. They fell in love,

1:10.8

got married, started a family.

1:13.6

Kate wanted it to last forever.

1:15.9

But gradually, it became apparent to her that it could not.

1:22.1

Well, the first time that I really seriously thought about ending the marriage was, oh, I think around seven years in.

1:31.6

I had three children by then.

1:34.2

And he, one night in bed, confessed that he had been looking at pornography.

1:42.4

So for me, that was huge. I hated pornography. I still do. I don't like

1:49.6

what it does to men. I don't like what it represents. And I felt like it was an invasion on my marriage.

1:56.8

I felt like it was, he was actually cheating on me. I think the marriage bad should be kept

2:02.7

pure. And that means from pornography as well. And so I was ready to leave. You weren't

2:12.2

suspicious or anything, but he felt burdened, I guess, and wanted to tell you that he had been looking at pornography.

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