Senior Sex and the City
The seniors searching for love and lust in New York City.
Shaking off their frail and vulnerable image, New York City’s older-aged singles are navigating dating and sex on a renewed quest for intimacy, after two years of isolation during the pandemic.
According to the United States Census Bureau, New York City is home to 1.8 million people aged 60 years and over. More than 800,000 of them are currently unmarried. After two years in which Covid forced the strictest isolation imaginable, many are now joining younger singles in a post-vaccination dating boom. Eighty-six year old Hattie lives in midtown Manhattan; ‘I’m bored! I want physical, I want interaction, I want to feel, I want to be felt!’, she says. As a single older woman, her opportunities for sex and intimacy were limited: ‘because of the pandemic everything changed - because of illness, sickness, viruses. All of a sudden, the act of making love had so many cautions attached to it’, she explains. ‘Being in love and being intimate is something that I never really had. So before I die, I’d like to have that’, says 58-year-old singleton Mahendra.
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