How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood

Founding Ms. magazine editor Levine (Feisty Side of Fifty) reports from the trenches of “second adulthood” to survey baby boomer women’s love lives. The responses are as varied as the aging of Aquarius respondents themselves. The sexual revolution veteran brags that intercourse has “never been better” because “[t]his time my enjoyment comes first.” Others search for Mr. Goodbar in cyberspace. “We are weather-beaten, but not browbeaten,” one feisty 75-year-old declares—reason enough, Levine concludes, for giddy optimism for a generation galloping into old age. (Jan. 2)