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Yes, have sex! It doesn’t matter the age.
Your body and mind will thank you!
When I walked into Rankin’s photography studio on that cold London morning, I confess I wasn’t prepared for what I was about to witness. As a journalist, I had covered hundreds of stories about sexuality, but this time was different. Before me, couples over 65 were preparing to be photographed in their most intimate moments, challenging all the prejudices that I — and probably you — carry about love in old age.
There’s something deeply disturbing about how Western society has chosen to infantilize and desexualize our elderly, as if desire and pleasure had an expiration date. This is an inconvenient truth we’d rather ignore, sweep under the rug of our own insecurities about aging.
Margaret, one of the campaign participants I met, looked me in the eyes and said something that haunts me to this day: “You know what’s the hardest part about having sex at 70? It’s not the physical limitations — it’s the look of disgust on people’s faces when they find out we still have an active sex life.” She survived breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. Her body tells a story of survival, but also of persistent desire, that aspect of her humanity that society insists on denying her.