Millions of Gen X and Baby Boomer women know something their mothers didn’t – or, at least, wouldn’t acknowledge.
And that is that women over 40 do not lose their sexual appetite. In fact, quite the contrary.
In 1976 Gail Sheehy wrote a powerful book that really redefined the stages of life we all go through. That book was called Passages, and it introduced us to the term “second adulthood.”
Thirty years later, in 2006, Sheehy showed us what one aspect of a second adulthood looks like for women. She called her book Sex And The Seasoned Woman.
Drawing on the same interviewing technique that made her famous, Sheehy uncovered the secret that was right there before our eyes the whole time: that older women still enjoy the same pleasures they enjoyed in their 20s.
But no, you won’t hear the word “cougar” anywhere in this interview.
So here now, from 2006, Gail Sheehy.
Gail Sheehy died in 2020. She was 83.