According to Marriage, Family, Sex Therapist Laurie Watson, unless your plumbing is broken, you can (and should) have intimate relations until you die. In this blog, she answers some questions no one wants to ask in public, but many want to know.

While editing my recent interview with Raleigh-based marriage, family counselor and sex therapist Laurie Watson, my teenage son came in to ask me something. I thought he was looking over my shoulder, so I said, “Do you want to read the article about sex after sixty?” He quickly backed out of my office and said “Ew…Mom! If you didn’t want me to interrupt you, just say so. Eww…!”

I guess what I’m trying to say is that even in families that try to talk about the difficult topics that are hard to talk about, there is still this immediate aversion to this particular topic–which means that it fits well with this month’s theme: What are you afraid of?

No one likes to talk about sex during the later years, but I’ve found that many have questions about it. Dr. Ben Fischer, of Fischer Clinic, a direct-pay practice that serves many patients over 60, said he refers patients who ask questions in this vein to Dr. Laurie Watson. As the author of “Wanting Sex Again: How to Rediscover Your Desire and Heal a Sexless Marriage” (published by Berkeley Imprint), producer of the top-ranked podcast “Foreplay – Radio Sex Therapy” and popular blogger for Psychology Today and WebMD, she is often invited to speak in both churches and medical schools, conferences and workshops. Here is an edited transcript from our conversation.

To read the entire article, visit: https://www.wral.com/sex-after-60/17604196/