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Baby Boomers and Sexual Freedom

German Roig — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:51:38 +0000

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Any kind of a sexual revolution has had baby boomers in their very forefront, right from the very beginning. This is the reason why baby boomers have been given so much importance by people around the world. A recent poll and study just concluded amongst parents suggests that baby boomers have a much more enjoyable as well as enticing life than others. They enjoy a greater sexual freedom and are open to vivid types of foreplay.

This rage in echo boomers to copy the attitude of baby boomers has been growing. Baby boomers are increasing in number and today, their tally has reached to eighty five million. Today, people are increasingly interested in meeting interesting people and going the distant lane along with them. The results of numerous research done in the area suggest the very same thing. About 30 per cent of baby boomer population are single. There are about 34 per cent baby boomers out of these who indulge in having sex on their very first date. There are still other 17 per cent who indulge into pre- marital sex.

There are various intents as well as reasons which drive youngsters into copying baby boomers attitudes , as suggested by the questionnaire based survey conducted in the United States and Canada. Out of the entire lot of baby boomers, at least 47 per cent of the population consisted of those who were looking for friendship and about 17 percent others were looking for an able as well as an amicable sexual companion. Such baby boomers are increasingly sexually free as well as liberated.

The reason behind this has to do with the environment in which these baby boomers were born and brought up. These were the times of radicalism as well as social change. These were the times when feminist movements and sentiments were doing rounds in the society and these empowered women to feel more confident about their sexual wants as well as needs in the bed. These were the times when contraception became increasingly popular and the issues related to pregnancy and the fear of its social repercussions started to be forgotten. Even single parenting ceased to be a social taboo and this encouraged many women and men all over the world to indulge in sexual relationships more freely.

One of the greatest points of advantage which baby boomers enjoy over their parents’ generation has to do with a modern day lifestyle syndrome which is known as the empty nest syndrome. If you consider parents, they look forward to enjoy a very active sexual life till the time their son/daughter goes to college. When this happens, it is hard to talk about issues during bed and sexual interest gets a bit lost. Baby boomers however have the advantage of being able to find a common activity which interests both the partners. Thus while going for walks, reading or exercising routines; they can easily indulge in sexual conversation leading to activity which is highly beneficial for the entire relationship.

The Psychological Article on Baby Boomers and Sexual Freedom is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!

Baby Boomers Enjoy Active Sex Lives

German Roig — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:42:14 +0000

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The present day world and world population can be aptly referred to as the one that desires love and intimacy. And baby boomers of today are coming forward to prove this fact all over again. There is no subject in the present day society which is completely free of any kind of misconception or myth. The fact that baby boomers are one of those classes of people in the world, who have not just a healthy sex life, but a rocking life in the bed, goes on to testify to this.

A research-based study which commenced in the year 2004, testifies to the fact that baby boomers were largely successful in maintaining that special spark in their sex life. The research study was based on the opinions of 1700 different respondents, and all the respondents of the study were above the age of forty five years. The respondent population consulted took the interests as well as the opinions of at least three fourth of the entire population of world baby boomers, which stands at a staggering figure of seventy eight million. The study confirms that baby boomers had a super sex life and enjoyed their sexual sessions to the core. There are a host of different reasons which can be accounted for such an observation. One of the most important reasons is that baby boomers have a very well tuned bonding amongst themselves. It is this bonding that acts as a fuel to their rocking sex life and hurls them towards each other.

As the baby boomers revolution approaches its grey hair days, there are more than 58 million American citizens in the late stages of their 50s and 60s. The research has also gone out to exhibit that those American who were born post World War II, in the years of the baby boom, are giving a whole new definition to the word “old”. Today, 50s and 60s baby boomers are shunning off from the title of “old”, and reserving it for the ages of 70s and 80s. The most important parameter associated with old age, that is reducing sex drive, is one of the main reasons where baby boomers are proving the world wrong.

It has been a long kept myth in the psyches of our present day society that as a person greys and becomes old, the levels of libido in the body decrease: directly linking to a reduced sex drive. However, this is being proved wrong if you look at the present day baby boomers. The “old youngsters “of today are certainly on the move as far as their sexual drive is concerned. This is what the respondents brought out from the conducted study.

It is also a known fact that the level of sexual drive as well as erections in men decreases with growing age. However, this is not at all a deterrent for the present day baby boomer man. They do not let this biological phenomenon affect their sexual wants, desires as well or preferences.

The Psychological Article on Baby Boomers Enjoy Active Sex Lives is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Two Timing Love Cheats: Baby Boomers Who Sleep Around

Administrator — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:56:23 +0000

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By Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com

This series of articles from Boomer Yearbook explores the fascinating and varied sexual behavioral patterns that occur as a result of the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced by men and women of the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation.

Two Timing Love Cheats: Baby Boomers Who Sleep Around

Sexual liberation is great and for sure nobody wants to go back to the days when nice girls sat on the porch and did their courting under the eagle eye of Grandma or a vigilant brother or father. Baby boomers are accustomed to sexual freedom and all the fun that goes with an independent love life. Unfortunately, however, people who have the freedom to indulge their romantic interests also have a tendency to be free with other people’s feelings from time to time.

Baby boomers who grew up in the fifties will remember how sternly love cheats were dealt with in those days. Dating was generally viewed to be something you did socially rather than sexually and so it was not unusual for girls to go out with different men over a few weeks but only very bad girls would sleep with each one of them and probably earn a shabby reputation for doing so.

Long term boyfriends were usually made official in some way; with token rings exchanged and the words ‘going steady’ bandied about to justify physical intimacies that would be unacceptable between casual friends. Love cheats would therefore be considered ‘heels’ and dealt with accordingly.

Over the decades, love cheats and two timers have changed little in essentials and nowadays, despite the World having matured with regard to sexual freedom, infidelity and disloyalty still hurt as much as back in the fifties! Psychological articles describe to us the kind of emotional pain we feel when we are being deceived by a lover as almost unbearable. We struggle to find ways to deal with it; we withdraw from our friends as we try to come to terms with the loss we feel as a result of being two timed or ‘made a fool of’; we still feel as offended by love rats in this Century as we did in the last.

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Of course there are different types of love cheat. Baby boomers who have gone through life cheating on this person and that person and made a habit of being disloyal will probably never change and never understand the benefits of being faithful to one companion. Others simply find themselves in a deadly three way situation from which they cannot escape and are actually quite nice people who have become caught in an emotional trap.

Love cheats, despite their reputation for having more fun than anyone else, rarely enjoy life. Psychological articles show us that so many love rats have an ingrained sense of inferiority and so find their multiple sexual partners a comfort. They are able to assure themselves that they are popular; in demand; attractive; sought after. In fact, anyone with the right frame of mind can be a love cheat: good looks and superior intelligence are not vital elements, although a degree of charm would be useful.

Baby boomers with a reputation for being “unfaithful in love” will probably enjoy a wide circle of friendships but few friends will trust a love cheat entirely – after all, if a man (or woman) is prepared to lie and manipulate in their intimate relationships, why would they apply a greater degree of integrity to a casual friendship?

The Psychological Article on Two Timing Love Cheats: Baby Boomers Who Sleep Around is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!

Is Baby Boomer Sex Losing its Flavor?

Administrator — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:24:00 +0000

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Is Baby Boomer Sex Losing its Flavor?

The old adage teaches us that familiarity breeds contempt. Something that is easily attained is often under valued and too much sex certainly loses its appeal if it is offered too frequently and in the same worn out format. Baby boomers like sex as a rule and tend to seek intimate relationships to enhance their lives in a variety of shapes and forms. Psychological articles tell us, however, that too much sex becomes banal and boring.

Of course sexual excitement that is available with a young and nubile (or virile, as the case may be) partner has a quite different appeal to indulging in sex with the same partner you have lived with for the last twenty years and who needs vari-focals to read the instructions on her sexual lubricant. That kind of sex is massively over rated and even the most rampant baby boomers may be leaning towards being pleased with postponement.

Some people have a self image issue that precludes them from seeking sex with appropriate partners or partners of their own age. Their false impression of their own appeal leads them to fool themselves and take a disingenuous view of what their mirror reflection tells them. They see young and sexy while others see the reality: elderly; flaccid; well past its sell-by-date. For these people with an inflated notion of self, their long term partners with all the inevitable signs of age such as wrinkles and crow’s feet; are no longer appetizing. They seek sexual gratification, often with disastrous results, elsewhere, feeling their baby boomer partner has lost his or her flavor sexually. Psychological articles tell us that in fact these baby boomers are experiencing a sense of loss and that a reality check is in store as they seek the attentions of partners who are younger and fitter.

Sexual activities for seniors vary with lifestyle. Those who have stayed ultra fit throughout early and late middle age experience enormous sexual pleasure as they enter their sixties and seventies and if they have a long term partner sharing the same physical interests, in both conventional and same sex marriages and relationships, they are more likely to stay sexually content into old age. Illness can sometimes throw a monkey wrench in the works when it comes to a healthy sex life for couples entering later life, leading one or the other to need sexual gratification elsewhere.

On the whole, baby boomer sex does not lose its flavor, although for most aging boomers, it does seem to wane and suffer as a result of circumstance.

The Psychological Article on Is Baby Boomer Sex Losing its Flavor? is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Boomers Astounding Ability to Remarry

Administrator — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:12:46 +0000

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By Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com

Baby Boomers and Their Astounding Ability to Remarry

As the sexual revolution of the fifties, sixties and seventies exploded many of the principals and traditions of marriage, baby boomers found themselves leading a crusade against convention. The standards of our grandmothers, who ‘saved themselves for one man’ were replaced by independent views that ran riot over the usual perimeters that bound social behavior and general public expectation of how to behave and with whom.

Despite this, baby boomers have still managed to uphold, albeit loosely, the sacriment of marriage, although it should not surprise anyone that they have done so on their own terms. Young couples tend to live together outside marriage, sometimes for many years and produce several children in their ‘common law’ state before finally deciding to get hitched.

So why do they bother? Couples who have enjoyed an intimate relationship for so long they are better acquainted than many married couples might suddenly make a decision to lurch down the aisle in a lavish ceremony, inviting family and friends to a flamboyant exhibition of devotion, their children heavily involved in the service and the whole debacle costing thousands of dollars they can sometimes ill afford. Why?

The answer is ‘security’. Women might be independent and self confident yet they still feel they require the piece of paper and the requisite vows of everlasting devotion before they feel truly cherished and those baby boomers who do not believe in the fairy tale are swiftly dismissed as cynical and out of touch with reality, despite the soaring divorce rate.

Interestingly, marriage has undergone a subtle metamorphosis in recent decades. The longevity of marriage has definitely suffered and in the 21st Century, most couple profess to wanting to stay together forever ‘if possible’ rather than ‘no matter what!’ This casual attitude to ‘until death separates us’ has led to many baby boomers entering into the state of marriage not one or twice but on several occasions throughout their lives, leaving the local church bridal carpet in many home towns downright threadbare and wedding albums featuring a veritable montage of photographs of spouses through the ages!

Baby boomers, true to type, have put their own interpretation on what constitutes eternal devotion and left the World with a more comfortable ‘boomer-esque’ version of the ritual. Boomers threw the ‘obey’ part of ‘love and honor…’ out the window as soon as they could get away with it and left in the marriage service only those vows they felt were reasonable and manageable. ‘Obeying’ one’s husband was just not boomer-like and it had to go: lifetime affection should be enough, so boomer ladies thought, without bringing all that servile nonsense into it!

Psychological articles teach us that people who enter into multiple marriages enjoy the security that marriage affords; the satisfaction of tying up the loose ends; the gallant protection of the male; the united front; and lastly but least favorite with lady boomers – ‘making an honest woman of the little lady!’

As boomers remarry at the rate of knots and divorce just as quickly before going on to the next romantic adventure, psychological articles are yet to observe the long term effects on society as a whole.

The Psychological Article on Baby Boomers and Their Astounding Ability to Remarry is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Does Baby Boomer Sex Ruin Marriages

German Roig — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:03:24 +0000

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Baby boomers are famously responsible for the sexual revolution in the middle of the last Century. Interested observers are now asking uncomfortable questions about the values discarded along the revolutionary road at the hands of the baby boomer generation and comparing statistics that describe the boomer generation as less than successful when it comes to accomplishing happy and long term relationships.

Psychological articles on elderly problems show us that, far from being content to exist within an unhappy marriage, or even attempt to repair it, baby boomers are quick to separate and divorce, abandoning their marriage like an old winter coat whenever it suits them to move on to new pastures.

It is true that the divorce courts have certainly been given a good beating by boomers. The reasons for boomers being so susceptible to fractured relationships are multiple; many of them attributed to the boomer fearlessness that compelled them to ban the bomb, the bra and the Berlin Wall, among other popular crusades credited to the boomer ability to object, protest and demonstrate their disapproval whenever the mood strikes them.

One of the theories behind baby boomers’ divorce track record is that, having made sex accessible without inhibition, they lack the moral disciplines present in the conventional marriages of the earlier part of the 20th Century. When you indiscriminately remove shame and accountability from a situation, you admit a certain quota of freedom and levity – not all of it welcome!

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Another idea behind boomers’ unlucky experiences with long term commitment is that they seek an unrealistic standard when it comes to connubial delight. Boomer ladies are notorious for kicking poor performers out of the bedroom in favor of lovers with a better technique – and boomer men like to be ‘forever young’, prompting them to search out younger partners – sometimes with disastrous results, so perhaps there is some truth in boomer sex contributing to the divorce rate!

Psychological articles on elderly problems speculate that another factor in baby boomers’ dissatisfaction is the pandemic indifference of the rest of human society: nobody could care less what anybody else does, in other words! In the reign of our forefather’s lifetime commitments, society was only too ready to point the finger and speculate, often unkindly, on other people’s marital shortcomings: nowadays, family units are fractured beyond recognition and few people pass judgement on the structure of others’ family and extended family relationships.

The Psychological Article on Does Baby Boomer Sex Ruin Happy Marriages? is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Baby Boomer Mistresses and How They Keep Their Men

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:14:20 +0000

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The word ‘mistress’ conjures images of half naked women permanently dressed in see through underwear and sporting expensive jewelry, a cosmetically enhanced cleavage and a wicked smile. In fact, excluding the odd exception to the rule, baby boomers who are mistresses are invariably ordinary women who fell in love with a man they could not have.

Despite baby boomers’ reputation for sexual liberty, many of them find monogamy very comforting and spend their lives with one person or perhaps two at a stretch. There are a few, however, that become drawn to the dreaded love triangle like a moth to a flame and these sexual intrigues can cause considerable heartbreak and emotional turmoil for everyone involved. Psychological articles tell us that heartbreak can be more difficult to cope with in later life and in serious cases can lead to depression.

Baby boomer mistresses who have been attached to one man for a very long time experience all kinds of emotional insecurity as they get older, for obvious reasons. As they age and lose their looks they believe – in some instances with good reason – that their man will feel less affection for them, no longer find them sexually alluring and eventually seek someone younger.

The reality of affairs is that they are often conducted in an atmosphere of home comfort rather than sleazy bars and private clubs. Baby boomers in the same affair for a long time have much the same home routine as conventionally married partners but without any legal obligation to carry on their association once attraction wears off. This leaves the mistress who is dependent on her man for support in the unenviable position of having no financial security and no emotional security either. This could be the reason for the relationship enjoying its longevity in the first place.

Men have had a generic love of being made comfortable by women since the beginning of time. When things go wrong at home and their relationships with their wives become strained through the daily pressure of family life, they sometimes seek the ingredients missing from their marriage elsewhere. If they are lucky enough to find it, a love affair can continue for many years as the man enjoys all the attention he does not get at home.

Psychological articles do not see extra marital affairs as particularly beneficial in terms of emotional health, for either party. A happier solution all round is to try to repair the cracks in one’s marriage rather than raid the emotions of a part time lover.

The Psychological Article on Baby Boomer Mistresses and How They Keep Their Men is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Yoga for Better Baby Boomer Sex

Administrator — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:02:05 +0000

By Boomeryearbook.com

So you want to have sex, but as a baby boomer, you feel too old to do it? Your body’s fitness doesn’t match up to your mind’s amorous intentions? Or for female boomers, is menopause making sex less enjoyable? And for male boomers, are prostrate issues getting in the way? Well, you needn’t fret too much because yoga is here to help!

Yoga poses for boomers to enjoy better sex

Yoga helps in keeping you fit, makes your body more flexible, lets your mind relax and makes you more aware of the sensations in your body. Often boomer sex falls victim to stress, age, lack of physical fitness and the consequential lack of confidence in one’s body. The following yoga poses can help boomers combat these passion killers:

Upavista Konasana or the Wide Straddle Forward Bend

Step1- Sit on the floor and spread your legs

Step2- Flex your ankles so that your toes are pointing upwards

Step 3-Bend forward but go only as far as is comfortable

Step 4- Deep breathe and stay in this position for 10-15 seconds

Step 6- Return to the first position. Relax. Repeat the exercise 4-5 times

Benefits to Boomers- Increases blood flow in your pelvis, which means more sensation in the area. Increase in sensation means more sexual pleasure

Baddha Konasana or the Cobbler’s Pose

Step1: Sit with your knees bent in such a way that the soles of your feet touch the floor

Step 2- Hold your toes, round your back and lean over your knees

Step 3- Deep breathe and stay in this position for 10-15 seconds

Step 4- Return to the first position.

Step 5- Relax and repeat the exercise 4-5 times

Benefits to Boomers: Alleviates symptoms related to menopause like uterine disorders, irritability, fatigue and anxiety.

The Mool Bandha or The Root Lock Pose

Step 1- Sit on the floor with your back straight

Step 2- Tighten your pelvic area and take a deep breath in

Step 3- Hold and count till 5

Step 4- Release and relax

Step 5- Repeat 5-6 times

Benefit- Strengthens your pelvic floor, thus giving stronger contractions and releases, which can help you experience a more intense orgasm.

These are just a few examples; yoga offers a lot more asanas and poses which can transform any boomer’s sex life from frigid cold to steamy hot! So don’t let age, fitness or stress bully you anymore, get yoga to deal with them.

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10. Replacing Real Sex: Cyber Sex for Baby Boomers

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:14:19 +0000

By Dr. Karen for Boomeryearbook.com

There are one or two baby boomers (who shall remain anonymous) who have experimented extensively with the realms of fantasy that is the World of cyber sex. One elderly contestant (82 next birthday…) in a cyber sex experiment decided that the sex was actually not worth bothering about but he learned so much about how to use Skype; how to set up a webcam and microphone and how to set up a virus check (hmmm – we asked that one too but don’t worry – he does know the difference between a computer virus and an STD!) that he is going to continue surfing for cyber sex partners to see what else he can – erm – pick up!

Sadly, psychological articles state that cyber sex is escalating amongst over sixties. Much of the incentive to indulge in cyber sex is put down to baby boomers experiencing a slowdown in their ‘real’ sex lives, so they seek an alternative set of pleasures, spending many hours each week scanning xxx-rated databases and sending speculative and erotic emails to like-minded people located just about everywhere.

Obviously, the attraction of cyber sex is the absolute confidentiality, unless you are a baby boomer silly enough to try cyber sex with a partner who lives on your street! Worryingly, a large percentage of people who indulge in cyber sex experience depression and anxiety, according to Marcus Squirrell, a doctoral student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, who states that 35% of the men tested (not women in this case) were “moderately to severely stressed”. Squirrell also contends that the more online sexual activity indulged in, the deeper the depression – so watch out, baby boomers!

Naturally enough, the age of cyber sex is still in its youth, however old its participants might be. Psychological articles tell us that the full effects it could have on those who are involved in its fantasies are as yet, therefore, unknown – virtually. Although the illustrious Mr Squirrell might have thoroughly researched his subject, it is entirely possible that the link between cyber sex and depression will turn out, in time, to carry no more weight than the old adage that masturbation caused blindness – time will tell!

For baby boomers determined to experiment with cyber sex, the ingredients are simply basic computer literacy, a webcam for serious visual participation, a microphone (or speakers if you want to share!) and a good imagination.

Remember to install a class A virus check on your computer if you are going to start browsing fantasy sites and sex chat rooms if you want to make sure your expensive hard drive doesn’t get blown up in the throes of passion and excitement – and take the somewhat obvious precautions of locking the door and making sure your chair is securely anchored!

Baby boomers having this kind of problem will be vulnerable to all kinds of quackery in their desperation to rid themselves of what they see as a scourge on their lives. Better to take the professional path and be sure of a straight forward and safe solution…

Replacing Real Sex: Cyber Sex for Baby Boomersis part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

9. What age is sexual retirement age?

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:13:41 +0000

By Dr. Karen for Boomeryearbook.com

Sexual retirement is a sad affair. Human beings become sexually active when they are ready and this age differs for everyone, according to psychological articles. Certain cultures and religions encourage sex at a very early age to produce the maximum number of children and others impose a strict set of ethics upon sexual activity, rather like sexual Terms and Conditions with a rigid code of behavior intended to uphold morality. Baby boomers came along and exploded the sexual revolution, making the World a free platform for rebellion and freedom for sexual choices in even the strictest communities.

In most social groups and especially in religious communities, there are certain guidelines in place for the cessation of sexual activity. Where a woman might lose interest in sex at an earlier age than her partner or husband, social codes imply that he must respect her choice to remain celibate, regardless of whether she is likely to change her mind or not. However, baby boomers tend to ask why such a woman might wish to retire from her bedroom interests and also explore the question of whether her decision is prompted by moral or health issues.

Back in the days before baby boomers started making waves over issues of sexual independence, ladies who felt they wished to hang up their saddles simply informed their husbands that they were no longer available for ‘that sort of thing’. The husbands politely went elsewhere for their fun and never mentioned the matter again, if they knew what was good for them…

The baby boomers’ method of dealing with the sexy stuff is probably a whole lot healthier, as they are more likely to drag Mrs Boomer to the nearest medical professional to see what is wrong with her and whether it can be fixed!

Psychological articles debate that men are actually more likely to pursue a sex life for as long as possible, although there are one or two wilting violets who prefer the occasional roll in the hay once every six months and plead exhaustion for the other 363 days of the year! Men are also more likely to separate their sexual gratification from their home comforts when bedroom activities begin to present a problem, keeping their sexual fun off the doorstep, as it were.

There really is no watershed for senior sexual fun and games but many elderly lovers prefer to keep their sex lives strictly private, which is why the myth that oldies ‘don’t do it anymore’ has managed to perpetuate like the old Chinese whisper game!

9. What age is sexual retirement age? is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.