Meryl Streep on Sexuality, Aging, and Visibility

Em & Lo, blogging at SUNFiltered say

Meryl Streep, our new hero, on sex scenes between older people: “The whole idea that you have to look a certain way and be a certain age to earn love is ridiculous. We love what we love. It doesn’t matter what shape it is. It’s thrilling to see real people on screen.”

They said it here.

I’m not going to just want to be having sex when I’m old, I want to be sexy too. Sexy being at least 50% a state of mind, a good way to make that possible is to acknowledge that sex doesn’t stop at age 25. Nor is sex with the lights on.

Streep, who (like many of us have and almost all of us will) tried 25 for a year but moved on, is a wonderful ambassador for that message.