“I have got my wits about me, I do know what it’s all about.” Her granddaughter Nicola is acting as both facilitator and gatekeeper and sifting those she thinks are suitable.Īs Nicola sends a smiley to a man called John who’s caught her grandma’s eye, Connie tells us that Nicola need not worry about her. ‘I know what it’s all about’Ĭonnie, 83, from London has just signed up for a dating site, even though she can’t work a computer. And just like younger people, most are turning to the internet to do so. But at it they are, and a third of those who are single told us they too would like to meet someone new.
“Younger people nowadays must think: ‘Oh God, that’s gross, you know, granny’s at it,'” Myra, 67, in Essex, told us. We’re not just grannies – I’m not, anyway!” Margaret, 67 from Oxfordshire told us: “We still feel as though we have a right to be a sexual being as well as everything else. Many felt overlooked and that they became invisible after the menopause. Joey is like almost half of all our respondents (46 per cent) who told us that sex is important to their lives.ĭespite many feeling liberated in themselves, many told us they didn’t feel like society was very approving of OAP sex. So three months ago, he joined Grindr, the mobile dating app for gay men, and told us he’s now “averaging, I would say, four men a week”. We still feel as though we have a right to be a sexual being as well as everything else. Joey, 69, from London said: “I got to a point where I thought I’m going to kick the bucket fairly soon.” “I can say that sometimes in the street I think: ‘Oh yeah, that would be a nice person to go to bed with’,” Vikki, 70, from Dorset told us. In exclusive research, Channel 4 News carried out in-depth interviews with 76 over-60s all over the country and polled another 500 to find out about love, sex and relationships in what is fast becoming a new, old age.
In fact, 51 per cent of people over 60 told us they are sexually active and many describe enjoying a late sexual bloom. “It’s the secret sex life of your parents and grandparents.” That’s what one 70-year-old woman in Somerset told Channel 4 News.