Seniors Go Online to Get it On

[The Straight Story]

Seniors Go Online to Get it On
By Regina Lynn Email 08.03.07 | 2:00 AM

As Wii bowling leagues pop up in retirement communities across the country and medical researchers find more proof that exercising our minds staves off dementia, seniors are turning to video games in record numbers. Twenty-five percent of gamers are 50 and older, according to the Entertainment Software Association. And they do not intend to stop playing on the day they become eligible for Medicare.

That's not all they're refusing to give up. It's high time our culture let go of the idea that sex -- and tech -- are reserved for the young.

Like mental health, sexual health is a use-it-or-lose-it proposition, and today's seniors have no interest in losing it. Like a love of games and the thrill of competition, sex is not something that we just switch off at a particular birthday.

"Sexuality sometimes sort of melts into sensuality," says Joan Price, the 63-year-old author of Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty. "But we never outgrow our need for touch."

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