sex like when we were young

people no longer young (that’s most adults) often want a sex life that matches the one they had — or wanted to have, or believe they should have had — when they were young. And that’s what much of the self-help industry sells — sex like when we were young.

endless physical energy, hormone-crazed lust, all the time in the world, self-indulgent impulsivity with no sense of the consequences, and a partner who’s young and also wild with hormones