We have this romantic myth about having sex, and the minute things don't work like they used to, the tendency is to blame the partner. Couples shut down.

Basically, seniors now are almost being inundated with information about sex, like our youth are, and feeling they need to be sexual. The saying is that 60 is now the new 40, like it's something that seniors are expected to live up to. … It really has raised that bar.

You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisses that really get the juices flowing.

There are two kinds of sex, classical and baroque. Classical sex is romantic, profound, serious, emotional, moral, mysterious, spontaneous, abandoned, focused on a particular person, and stereotypically feminine. Baroque sex is pop, playful, funny, experimental, conscious, deliberate, amoral, anonymous, focused on sensation for sensation's sake, and stereotypically masculine. The classical mentality taken to an extreme is sentimental and finally puritanical; the baroque mentality taken to an extreme is pornographic and finally obscene. Ideally, a sexual relation ought to create a satisfying tension between the two modes (a baroque idea, particularly if the tension is ironic) or else blend them so well that the distinction disappears (a classical aspiration).

Just so you know, there's a space that only you can fill. Just so you know, I loved you then, I guess I always will.

And you are mine, and you will be mine. They
will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone