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Connecting to Tantra After 60 | Valerie Bennis | TEDxHobokenWomen


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On January 12th of 2018 I will be 65
years old thank you
technically a senior citizen I still
date though I’m 65 means nothing when it
comes to living your dreams but when it
comes to dating it’s a whole other story
and I’d like to give you a glimpse of
what it’s like men asked me if I’ve
closed up shop and I receive all kinds
of catalogs in the mail with weird
things that address thinning hair and
thinning skin and vaginal atrophy and
cellulite and weight gain and facial
hair and skin tags red tags red spots
age spots and the message that I am no
longer desirable in the world of
sexuality and sensuality friends tell me
that at our age relationships are about
companionship really I think to myself
maybe for you but not for me then there
are the men that are still looking for
younger women even at age 65 and after
hearing Rooney speak I think it might be
his fault on the other side there are
the young men who are looking for me to
be their mrs. Robinson what a hot mess
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no wonder I have been mostly single for
15 years in spite of lots and lots of
dating and wanting to meet my soulmate
I found myself becoming a sad lonely
bitter sexually frustrated woman gazing
longingly at the college and rich young
women on the subway with their taut skin
and shiny hair maybe I would become an
old maid after all I felt dead inside
and wanted to come alive again literally
and figuratively so what did I do
I did some pleasure research and I
discovered Tantra it was this ultimate
path of pleasure that paved the way for
me to come alive again and to feel
vibrant I began studying all the ways I
could experience pleasure from yoni eggs
to sacred spot massage I’m diving deep
into sexual fantasies and it all
happened when I met my Tantra partner
who doesn’t give a damn about the aging
of my body I challenge women everywhere
whose sexual and sensual life is on
hiatus to bridge themselves to happiness
through the pleasure and discovery of
their bodies because just when you think
your sexual chapter has closed and your
book of orgasms is over
another volume will appear on the Shelf
with sequels coming every month
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this poem is for you I call it healing
sensuality the feeling of being nurtured
and looked after desire bubbled up like
a molten wave so long it had been and so
much hunger grief loss and sadness
resided within me now I had your strong
masculine hands tending to me with long
loving strokes all there was to do was
to experience every glorious touch every
shudder and every quiver every sigh and
every moan to be fully present to the
beauty and delight the oil that you use
to massage my limbs telling me how you
admired my body when you rested your
finger inside my most primal private
part
I felt waves of pleasure that were both
still and energetic sometimes my eyes
were closed and sometimes I looked at
you to take in more of what I was
receiving the light of day filled the
room there was no hiding I was fully
exposed and unafraid thank you
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you
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