Oct 01 2008
Silver Fox, Wiser Lioness
There are plenty of people who think they don’t have taboos because they don’t have the traditional Judeo-Christian taboos of sex and fidelity. But you can hit squick pretty quickly if you step outside their own personal mainstream (for example, try asking them how much they earn–the salary taboo is pretty all pervasive here in the US). But let’s start with sex+age. The days have gone where the heroine was always a teen virgin, but it is damned hard to find one where one of the romantic characters is over fifty.
But this may be beginning to change. How can you tell there is a significant amount of people interested in something in this modern world? Well, perhaps when it is being commercialised. Well, of course the internet allows people to make profits of smaller niche markets through subscription sites and print-on-demand books–but they still depend on shifting a reasonable amount if product.
The Wiser Lioness of the title is a new subscription site that provides,and I quote: Hot, Sexy Stories By, For and About Women 50 and Over! The Senior Woman’s Source for Erotic Short Fiction That’s Elegant, Explicit & Deliciously Indiscreet!”
And there is also the book that will be the subject of my first review for this blog: Gray Pleasures, a Love Story of Ageless Passion. A erotic romance story with a seventy year old heroine and a cover that suggests she isn’t letting it slow her down any. There will be more reviews as the blog goes on and I do accept review copies so long as it relates to the blog. So if any of you out there have some other sexy products that are 50+-oriented, or any kind of interesting product, do drop me a line.
Yes - great post! as a 50+ woman, I am tired of seeing men of my age on lonely-heart web sites say they are looking for a woman in her 30s!
Down with invisibility!
http/: www.nokids.today.com
(sorry - I haven’t worked out how to post a link yet!)
That’s a good point, every women is ‘older’ than someone ;)