Suddenly Senior column: Straight Talk about Sex and Relationships after 50

“WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE to see new columns about?" Frank Kaiser asked his Suddenly Senior readers.

"I would like to see a senior sex and relationships section, including topics such as dating, keeping sex alive in a long-term relationship, and talking back to media stereotypes," I responded, "and I would like to write it."

"Do it," Frank replied.

Suddenly Senior, if you're not familiar with it, is an amazing website with 2,400 pages of humor, nostalgia, senior advocacy and useful information for seniors 50+, read by 2.3 million online visitors. It's "a place for everyone who's become senior before their time" -- and isn't that all of us?

In my first column, I invite readers to join me in discussing the issues that face us as seniors seeking and enjoying love and intimacy in all their dimensions, and I invite you to join me here as well. Let's shout out loud against the ridiculous and destructive stereotype of older people as either sexless or pathetic for still wanting/ enjoying/ seeking sex.

If you're not in a relationship, but you'd like to be, let's talk about the experience of being "single and seeking" after 50.

If you're in a long-term relationship, please share the issues you face and how you keep the fires burning.

If you're in a new relationship, what are the joys and challenges? Let's talk openly about our concerns, questions, and experiences.I look forward to hearing from you.

Read my first column for Suddenly Senior by clicking here, and please either post a comment here or email me about your concerns, your attitudes, your experiences.

My next Suddenly Senior column will be "Sex and Older Bodies: Tips, Tools, and Tricks that Work!" I'll be talking about the challenges that our aging bodies make us face -- not only slower sexual response, but also the nitty gritty questions of finding comfortable positions when we have arthritis or bad backs or hips, and the tools and props that make senior sex more comfortable. Your comments and questions are invited!