A big thumbs up for Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, who, at the age of 81, is still living life to the max. Curtis, star of over 170 films including the classic “Some Like It Hot”, is now on his sixth marriage, to a woman 42 years his junior, whom he met in a restaurant 12 years ago.
‘The age gap doesn’t bother us,’ Curtis said in an interview with the Daily Mail. ‘My body is functioning and everything is good. We don’t think about time. I don’t use Viagra either. There are 50 ways to please your lover.’
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Archive for March, 2007
Scientists believe they have discovered the reason why women live longer than men – they are better sleepers.
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University found women not only sleep more soundly than men, they are also less affected by sleep deprivation.
They believe women’s sleeping habits might have evolved to help them cope with the demands of crying babies and disturbed nights.
The research team have shown that missing sleep can affect hormone levels and generate harmful chemicals in the body.
Far from tailing off and even disappearing altogether, as many would have us believe, sex often becomes even more exciting and deeply satisfying for people in later life.
Experience has much to do with it but sexual appetites are also heightened by more relaxed and conducive life circumstances. The kids have flown the nest, the mortgage is paid off and the bedroom is the natural place to maximise the feel-good factor.
A young journalist of our acquaintance took a job as a public relations man for Saga and returned home after a voyage on one of their cruise ships in a state of shock, reporting that the over-50 cruise brigade were ‘the randiest bunch of people’ he’d ever come across’, cavorting in each other’s cabins like it was going out of style.
Writing in The Times (11.04.06), under the headline ‘Nobody has it better’ (11.04.06), Rowan Pelling, former editor of The Erotic Review, claimed: ‘As a woman editor of an erotic journal I was privy to all kinds of confessions from male readers, writers, strangers at parties and men on trains, and they all pointed to the fact that many middle-aged men were having the best sex of their lives.
‘Women with carnal knowledge of older males agree.’ Pelling added. ‘Such men are more generous in bed than their younger selves; are more appreciative of women’s bodies whatever their flaws; spend more time on sex because their own orgasms take longer to achieve; and they know what they’re doing.’
Veteran British actress, Anne Reid, claims females of a certain age are equally ‘up for it’. Speaking about her role in controversial British movie ‘The Mother’, which tells the story of a widow in her late sixties seducing a man less than half her age, Reid said: ‘The fact that she developed from a dried up old nobody, starved of sex, and blossomed throughout the film – that was what appealed to me about the character.’
Best known for her role as Ken Barlow’s wife in Coronation Street, Reid added: ‘A lot of women of my generation were virgins when they got married and had kids. They get to 60 and think “God, I haven’t had a life”.
‘Sexual desire doesn’t stop. It’s like hunger and thirst, hot and cold. You don’t stop feeling desire when you get to a certain age. I think it gets worse actually.’
The Japanese have traditionally been famed for their long lives but it is not just their diet of seaweed, raw fish and rice that appears to be the secret of their longevity.
The plant food a Japanese community eats is usually from internal sources and the food they buy from the market is usually picked the same day so only a minimum amount of nutrients are lost.
Variety in their diet is another factor contributing to Japan’s overall good health and propensity for ripe old age. An average Japanese eats up to 25-35 different foods in one day, which also goes a long way towards satisfying nutritional requirements.
Daily nutritional requirements can be broken down in to two main groups: micronutrients – more commonly known as vitamins and minerals, which can be found in fresh plant foods – and macronutrients.
Carbohydrates, proteins and fats are collectively known as macronutrients and are found in seafood, rice and noodles. Nowadays, the Japanese, who live fast-paced lives, rely heavily on instant noodles.
For those of us who feel an instinctive aversion to a regimen of healthy living, they also appear to thrive on beer, sake and smoking, an intriguing fact which has been echoed by a study of the high proportion of centenarians living in Cuba’s Villa Clara province.
The study of age-lifestyle correlation found a way of life that is light on alcohol but includes generous doses of coffee, cigars and sex. We knew it all along.
According to Sam Mercer, Director of the Employers Forum on Age, “Employers are increasingly recognising the value and contribution of older employees. Age diversity delivers different attitudes, life-stages and experiences and helps ensure organisations are better able to understand their diverse customers, and to respond to fluctuations in demand. Many UK employers are already taking advantage of the flexibility older workers can offer over hours and seasonal working”.
Commenting further on myths that fuel age discrimination, Mercer said: “Employers are also gradually recognising and benefiting from the fact that many older skilled people aren’t just “in it for the money” as work provides much valued stimulation and social contact for those who do not want to move full-time into the garden or onto the golf course.” (Sam Mercer, Director of the Employers Forum on Age, quoted in Be Ready newsletter, July 2006.)
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