My parents are in their 80’s, and my mother’s getting increasingly ga-ga (serious memory loss, though she still recognizes us & can carry on a limited conversation).
So we’re visiting their apartment & there in bed with the door open, and I hear her say to my father:
Old people don’t have sex!Old people don’t have sex!Old people don’t have sex!Old people don’t have sex!Old people don’t have sex!Old people don’t have sex!Old people don’t have sex!
<rocks backwards and forwards with arms wrapped around head>
What’s with you people? Sex between consenting, loving adults whatever age is glorious. Would you want people saying the same things about you at that age?
What’s with you people? Sex between consenting, loving adults whatever age is glorious. Would you want people saying the same things about you at that age?
I wish my parents still loved each other enough to show affection. A kiss or a hug would be great. Having sex with each other would be brilliant. Old people expressing their love to one another is not disgusting.
OTOH, I don’t want to hear it, see it or know any details. But that goes for most people anyway, not just old ones.
One of my colleagues a while back had a patient (late 70s, I think) who was a long-term nursing home resident. She got a routine urinalysis on her, and it came up positive for trichomonas. She was very cautious about bringing it up–how do you have the safe sex talk with an 80-year-old?–but it apparently wasn’t a very big surprise. “Yeah,” she said, “I guess I should be more careful.”
Disturbing, but if it livens up the otherwise bleak nursing home existence, more power to them. (Maybe we should put condom machines in the bathrooms next to their sharps containers.)
No it isn’t. It most certainly is not. And yes, people are welcome to express disgust and displeasure at the notion of me having old people sex when I am an old people. Hopefully, by that point, I’d be smart enough to not give a crap what people think of my sex life.
Lemme clarify before the flames start. It’s not a beautiful thing to WATCH. They’re welcome to be as beautiful as they want, just far, far away from me…
How about really skinny, pale, geeks, with acne and greasy hair who’ve spent most of their lives watching Star Trek, or anime, or LOTR? They’re just as disgusting.