“The image of two ancient bodies put together it does not evoke eroticism, it evokes death“. It’s succinct Barbara Albert to say in a heartfelt interview with the Corriere della Sera what you think of love and especially of sex between “over there”, i.e. between older people. “We can’t take it anymore. The problem is that for years we are no longer poor Christians, but consumers. Everything has to be consumed: food, fashion, sex. And since they have noticed for some time that we old people have more time and on average more money, they try to persuade us to fuck. Then, for heaven’s sake, everything happens. Once we had two old neighbors who we believed in Limine Mortis, but then we realized that they do it every day,” explains the writer and journalist.
And he urges: “I know, I provoke. But Ior I’m tired of having to measure sex, fix it in timetables: gentlemen, here’s how to copulate at twenty, forty, sixty, eighty. Each age is then classified as in a manual with rules to follow. Sex is the freest thing there is, the least controllable thing. Everyone does what they want, however For heaven’s sake, let’s regain humility. It is the greatest detonator of sexuality. But have you ever wondered why we women are still crazy about Cary Grant today? Because we’ve never seen him in his underwear. Today we talk too much about sex and we don’t do it much. So young people very little “.