Fortyhboobs's blog post - No lie

"Stop lieing your not 52, you are much younger than that."

That's the first line of a message I received this morning from a male NN member. Despite being called a liar, I chose to take it as a compliment because he obviously feels I don't fit into his notion of what a 50+ year old woman should look like (and because the rest of his message was complimentary - lol).

As I told the guy in my answering PM, I have not lied about my age. I was born in 1953 and turned 52 earlier this year. I feel I was blessed with good genes - my father was Swedish and always looked young for his age, and that's probably how I got my "youthful" looks. But it got me thinking: Why is there still a perception among some people that when a woman reaches the age of 50, she suddenly becomes old looking and sexually unappealing, and she doesn't much care because she's turned into a dried-up, asexual being?

Okay, I may be exaggerating just a bit, but you know what I mean. My guess is it's because of the tremendous (media-driven) emphasis on youth and newness in this country. That's caused anyone or anything old to be viewed as less desirable. Well, let me tell you, personally I've never felt so desirable, so attractive and so sexy (and so horny!) in my life now that I'm over 50.

Some of it has to do with the increased self-acceptance and self-assurance that seem to come with age, but a lot of it has to do with - yep - posting pics of my naked body on the Internet. What a much-needed and much-appreciated self-esteem booster that's been.

Anyway, who says 52 year old women can't be young looking? Christie Brinkley, Kim Basinger, Kate Capshaw, Meredith Vieira, Pat Benatar - they were all born in 1953, too, and, geez, how great do they look? All vibrant, alluring, self-confident, sexually appealing women WHO ARE OVER FIFTY. Not that I compare myself to any of them, I'm just proud to say I share their year of birth and am happy to be part of the sisterhood.

So when I tell my age, everybody, I'm not lying - I'm bragging.

Fifty-plus and proud of it,
'Boobs