Everywhere I look right now, there seem to be articles and books about women in middle age,
with titles like Rediscovering Desire in Perry Menopause, or Middle Age is Sexy Now.
Plus, of course, you have the wild success of Miranda Jalai's novel All Fours,
and actually Jalai is coming on the show soon to talk about the impact of her book, so stay tuned for that.
So women in their 40s and 50s are being centered in the cultural conversation in a way they've never been before.
But why?
I mean, women entering middle age, going through menopause, that's not a new phenomenon.
So what is it about this generation of women that's making this life transition seem so sexy?
And what can other generations learn from this one?
Enter writer Maray Silkoff.
There is something real happening here with women who are older, and it has to do with power.
It doesn't have to do with being like a young person.
It has to do with being like an older person.
Maray is a writer from Montreal, Canada,
who recently wrote an article for the New York Times magazine called Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex.
In it, she writes about getting divorced at 46 and going on to have more sex and better sex than she'd ever had before.
I remember, like, I don't know, it must have been around my 49th birthday or something like that.
Walking around, I was having quite a bit of sex and just thinking like,
everybody in the world is having sex, like everybody.
And after talking to a bunch of her friends, Maray realized she wasn't the only one.