Senior Sex Movie

Finally found a movie with an ongoing theme of senior sex (not just a short bit) and it was a comedy!?! Oh my! Oh well! I guess something is better than nothing.


Meet the Fockers casts Barbra Streisand as the senior sex therapist mother of one of the characters. A senior sex therapist. What the heck is that? Is there any science that supports specific interventions that a senior sex therapist might initiate? I'll bet there isn't.


Should there be? Well, I see no reason why not. The recent survey of senior sexual behavior published last August in the New England Journal of Medicine got more than a few notices in the mainstream media, but was it respectful? Was it reported with a bit of discomfort? Is anyone truly comfortable with images of their mother or grandmother with her heels in the air squealing with delight? I don't know.


You can type "senior sex therapy" into your search box and find an article like this one. It's a good article, but notice how much of it is aimed at correcting physical ailments that curtail sex and how little is about the emotional/relational components. I suspect that says as much about the current state of knowledge as it does any conscious decision of what to report on.


Anyone know where to get one of those mats they used in the movie?

Senior Sex Study: Talk To Your Doctor

I just uploaded a video to Youtube titled Senior Sex Study: Talk To Your Doctor, based on the New England Journal of Medicine August 2004 article on elderly sex behavior and attitudes.


It's awful, but it's on there!


They say that your first video will be your worst video and this one had better fit that bill. Whew! None of it is really that hard, but putting it all together was a lot harder than I had expected.


There's nothing new in it, but here it is ---



Still is a good message though. I am afraid that I would have been one of those who didn't talk about sex with doctors if I hadn't had prostate cancer, surgery, catheters, Viagra, pumps, etc. Don't make it come to that for you to talk with them. Give the young medicos some hope for their own future sex lives. Talk to them.