Sex and the Seniors: Older Adults Turn to Social Media

Suzanne Noble isn't whispering about senior sex; she's podcasting about it—and doing so to an audience that's getting younger. Writing at the Washington Post, Grey Battle follows Noble, now 65, whose Sex Advice for Seniors started as candid, often postcoital conversations between her and then-partner Peter Marriott and has since exploded on TikTok, where her followers have tripled to about 160,000. She's part of a small but growing class of "sexfluencers" over 60—along with 82-year-old author Joan Price and the four-man TikTok collective known as the Old Gays—who are pushing back on the idea that desire expires with age.

The Post reports that much of their message is about health and ageism, not titillation: painful sex and erectile dysfunction can flag broader medical issues, yet older patients—especially women—often get brushed off by doctors and harassed online. Experts and influencers interviewed say the taboo is less about sex than about seeing "wrinkly people" as sexual at all. Still, younger viewers are tuning in, sometimes for guidance, sometimes to troll. For a nuanced look at what Price calls "a late-in-life sexual revolution" and its backlash, read the full piece at the Washington Post.