The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart-sick.
The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Allman.
I'm Cheryl Strayed.
This is Dear Sugars.
Hi, Steve.
Hi, Cheryl.
So today we're doing one of those episodes,
like so many of our episodes, that really rose out of our inbox.
I was going through letters in preparation for this season, of messages from people in their 50s,
60s, 70s and beyond who were asking us about sex.
That's right.
I mean, this is the thing.
We have a culture that neuters anybody who's above 50.
We certainly don't discuss and we don't show images of people of that age having an erotic life,
having an erotic imagination.
And when you suggested the show,
I thought about two books that I'd read within the last year, both of which I think...
are so brilliant at bringing out of the shadows the reality that we're going to have a body our whole lives and therefore desires and an erotic life.
And the first one was this novel, Our Souls at Night, by the author Kent Harrefin.