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3/19/2012 – It's Enough To Make A Unicorn Blush: Our Problem With Talking About Sex

“Not long ago I wrote a blog called “Sex, Love, and Unicorns,” describing the ambivalence I was encountering when I talked about sex among us older folk. Everyone seemed to be embarrassed by the topic. When I called my friend Laura Carstensen, who runs the Stanford Center on Longevity, she was intrigued. The thing is, she mused, sex performed by aging bodies is as taboo a subject as aging itself — even among those who study our behavior. ”

Read the full article at Huffington Post

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