Lockdown sparks and sex after 60: ‘The meeting of minds is a great aphrodisiac'

A lot has changed since Elizabeth Quinn last entered the online dating ‘bear pit’ but the slower pace of distanced love is a revelationA few years ago, while travelling in Europe, I met an Englishwoman in her early 70s. She introduced her husband to me by saying, “This is Bill. I advertised for him in the Guardian.”Twelve years before, when they had both been in their early sixties, Bill had responded to her newspaper advertisement. Over the next few weeks a correspondence ensued, culminating in a meeting at a pub. They shared a counter lunch and a postprandial encounter of a different kind back at his place. She never went home. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jul/16/lockdown-sparks-and-sex-after-60-the-meeting-of-minds-is-a-great-aphrodisiac #australian_lifestyle #sex #life_and_style #dating #ageing