Monique Bowley

That's great.

I would like to direct you to draw your attention, group, to the cover story in the New York Times magazine recently called Why Gen X Women Are Having the Best Sex.

Now, it wasn't specifically about fingering, but I feel it's fingering adjacent.

Yeah, yeah, I'll allow it.

It's by a writer called Miriel Silkoff.

And she, using her own life as a jumping off point, she's in her late 40s and she's relatively recently divorced.

She writes that she thinks that the older women who are often the subject of the kind of cultural shows that we were just talking about, movies and books, are having the best sex.

And she has some very interesting theories about why.

So I'm going to read you a little bit about what she says.

She says returning to plentiful sex in my late 40s felt weirdly intuitive, like hearing an old favorite song and finding out that, of course, I still knew all the words.

I'd found I was better at sex.

And this is because I was older.

I had fewer inhibitions, fewer hangups and more self-love than I did as a taught 24 year old.

And the culture of sex in the 2020s felt more exploratory, more forgiving.

The date rapes and creepy professors that filled my 1990s were gone.

The workplace harassment and idiotic full Brazilians that peppered my early 2000s were over.

The fear of pregnancy was finished, as was the pressure to land a partner to make babies with.

Everything that remained felt like a privilege.

There was desire and the ability to fulfill it.

Turns out it wasn't just my story.