The Scary Mommy Sex Issue keeps on giving! Today, we’ve got Kim Brooks on an interesting midlife phenomenon: when your friends start getting divorced and suddenly they’re happily fooling around and having great, interesting sex with new partners. But what if you’re married and you want the wild experimentation back, WITHOUT getting divorced? It’s in the air right now, she writes: “From the novel turned Hulu series Fleishman Is In Trouble, to the second season of White Lotus, to the reality series Couples’ Therapy, popular culture seems to be particularly interested in grappling with the unique challenges and rewards of married sex. Perhaps this is an inevitable consequence of the great relationships reckoning of the Covid pandemic, which forced many couples to forego the usual distractions and external stimuli that keep us from looking deeply at our long-term relationships and the quality of our sex lives as our kids grow older or prepare to leave the nests.” So what are you supposed to do? She explores the question in her piece. Read it – I won’t tell! Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor |
