Meet the couples who are in their 50s but are having the sex of their lives
For these fiftysomethings, raunchy romps are the secret of their happiness
A SIZZLING sex life is not just for youngsters.
One in five fiftysomethings says raunchy romps are the secret of their happiness.
There seems to be something about clocking up a half-century that spices up British bedtimes.
But what is it?
Here four women in their fifties tell JENNY FRANCIS why they are now having the best sex of their lives.
'I am far more spontaneous'
SECRETARY Laura Chubb, 50, lives with her stock controller husband Craig, 53, and their two teenage sons in Worcester Park, Surrey.
Laura believes she is in her best decade for exciting, spontaneous sex, as she no longer has to worry about young kids. She says:
“Sex took a back seat during my thirties and forties while I was raising my family, running the house and working.
“Now the focus is off the kids and back on us.
“When I was a teenager I knew nothing and I lacked the experience that comes with age and being in a loving marriage.
“I’m still very tactile with Craig.
“I have been with him for 32 years and we’ve been married for 20 years.
“We can make our needs a priority now in a way we couldn’t when the children were younger.
“I’m more spontaneous, too.
“If we fancy making love in the middle of the day, Craig will pop home early from work and we’ll do just that.
“We can have sex in the shower when the kids are out.
“Your love life gets better with maturity – we know what the other wants.
“I’m confident and happy and that means better sex.”
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AFTER 24 years as a single mum, Louise Dean has met the man of her dreams and is having the best sex of her life aged 50.
The hairdresser has been with voiceover artist Robert Pereno, 59, for four years. She says:
“We have a very good sex life.
“We have sex at least three or four times a week and it’s amazing every time.
“I couldn’t be happier or more sexually satisfied.
“This is the best relationship of my life.
“We’re really in love and neither of us has ever felt this way about anybody else before.
“I think as you get older you get more relaxed within yourself and more confident.
“You are not so worried about the things that concerned you when you were younger.
“I married my ex in 1990 and it lasted for just 18 months.
“He left me when I was pregnant with my daughter Alice.
“I had a few flings over the years but nothing serious.
“You can’t really get into anything like that as a single mum.
“Then I met Robert when Alice had left home, so it was great timing.
“It was like I was given a second chance at love.”
'Our loving is very rampant'
ACTRESS June Smith, 52, romps up to three times a day with her 42-year-old lover and describes herself as “rampant”.
June, of St Albans in Herts, says:
“I’ve been seeing my new man for a few months but he doesn’t live nearby, so when we do get to spend some time together we make up for it and we’re very full-on.
“We have a very rampant sex life.
“I think when we’re younger, women are more concerned with making our boyfriends happy in bed.
“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realised it’s more important to make sure I’m happy and being pleased.
“As I’ve matured and grown in confidence, I’m comfortable making sure that happens, at the same time as making sure the man is happy too.
“I now know that if I’m not getting what I need out of sex, I’m not going to stay with some I’ve never been married or had any children and I am looking to settle down once I find the right guy.
“He’ll have to interest me outside the bedroom as well as inside it.”
'It gets less but better'
PERSONAL trainer Mercedes Yoshieka, 58, from Marylebone in central London credits the redundancy of her husband of 30 years Hideo, also 58, and their first holiday in 25 years with boosting their sex life. She says:
“Although the redundancy was hard on us both, it was actually the best thing that could have happened for our relationship because we needed some time together and we ended up rekindling our intimacy.
“We had drifted apart sexually because of how hard we were both working and we really reconnected on that holiday.
“That’s continued even though Hideo is now back in work.
“As you get older sex does get better – you get to know each other more.
“You don’t have to explain yourself or make that extra effort like you did when you first started dating.
“I’m lucky, my husband is incredibly sensitive to my needs.
“A lot of my friends would rather go shopping than have sex and I’m very happy I don’t feel that way even after 30 years.
“As you get older, it does get less but quality gets better.
“I can’t stress that enough.”