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Sex in the 60′s: Naked Truths About Baby Boomers

Baby Boomers – Americans born from 1946 to 1964 -- are 70 years old or rapidly approaching that age are still not feeling old, according to my old bosses at Money Magazine. “And … researchers say you’re healthier and more mentally agile than previous generations were at your age.

And that’s just the tip of an iceberg that spawned hippies, flower children and the people who started a sexual revolution and the original movement to legalize weed all across America.

I have it on good authority too that bookers, the main players in a sexual revolution started by this generation, are having as much sex now in their advancing years, as they claimed to have had in their younger years.

 Hail, hail to the Viagra generation.

As it turns out, Boomers who were divorced, remarried, widowed or just plain left in the dust by a former spouse or lover, are giving weed a second look in their advancing age, reinventing themselves in all sorts of way, and also having more sex than any one of a previous generation could ever have imagined. I know these things because I’m a boomer myself.

Writing about boomers who have found a meaningful second act in their long lives, is the subject of my next book, as yet untitled.

I’d like to hear from you generation outliers, sometime called Second Actors. Tell me your stories, and stay tuned as I post excerpts here.

Tell me about your encore careers Write to me and tell me how you reinvented yourself like the couple I met in Baltimore recently who sold their five bedroom house in Shaker Heights, OH. They took the equity they had earned over the years but never touched and bought a three story townhouse in the downtown of bustling Baltimore just down the street from the Meyerhoff Symphony where they have season tickets. The couple now lives near the Lyric Opera House and the theater district where the Baltimore Theater Project performances are held on Preston Street. The Walters Art Museum, Oriole Park at Camden Yard, the National Aquarium and a watering hole called Brewer’s Art are all in walking distance of their new home.