Sex after sixty; couples say that advancing age is no longer an excuse for a lousy love life.

Ebony | July 1, 1989| | Copyright

Sex After Sixty

HE'S 74 and a retired U.S. Army forklift truck supervisor. She's 71 and a part-time receptionist. When Aretha and Jethro english celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Atlanta two years ago, their two adult children teased them about diminishing body chemistry. But the couple's venerable role as great-grandparents doesn't keep them from regularly affirming their sexiness.

Mrs. English is amused that many of her peers donht even talk about, let along engange in, sexual activity, a bodily function she ranks in importance with ...

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