ABC Nightline

From ABC’s online synopsis of the show:
… “Sex Is Life-Long” [says Dr. Hilda Hutcherson]… That surprises many older people, who’ve been led to believe that their sex drive lessens or dies out later in life. It surprised Joan Price so much when she fell in love at age 57 that she was moved to write a book. It’s titled — tellingly — “Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After 60.”

The book has gone to a second printing, so high is the demand for information from people in her generation. It’s also led to a blog, in which middle-age and older men and women write in for some straight talk about sex — everything from when is too soon to become intimate with a new man after a spouse dies, to reclaiming sexuality after cancer.

Now 63, Joan is a newlywed. She met her husband Robert when he took her line dancing class. The sex? She’s happy to report that it’s never been better. “I had expected, as a young person, that old people a) didn’t have sex, or b) if they did, they didn’t enjoy it, because it was something that young people did,” she says. “And then, when I fell in love at age 57, I was amazed at how wonderful it was, not only being in love, but also our sex life.”