Category: age & aphrodite

Boomer Blokes – A Threatened Species

If you are a bloke of a certain age, say 60-something or older, you could well be a walking time-bomb with disease (breeding for years) about to present itself. To reflect my point, right now I have three men-friends fighting serious life-threatening disease including stomach cancer, melanoma and prostate problems. And in the last two […]

Monday June 21st, 2010 in age & aphrodite | 2 Comments »

64 and still kicking

It seems only yesterday that our generation  would sing parrot-like that Beatles’ hit When I’m 64 and never waste a thought on what life would be like then. The notion that we would ever “get older losing my hair’’ as the four Liverpool lads belted out, applied only to old men.  Yet,this is the year […]

Monday May 10th, 2010 in age & aphrodite | 7 Comments »

Women still on a see-saw of inequality

Love her or hate her, 40 years ago, Germaine Greer unleashed a brash new tome, the Female Eunuch, which was to upturn the prescribed world of women and write a new feminist creed. Some writers, such as Louis Nowra in The Monthly, have used the anniversary to vilify Greer about her age, appearance and eccentricity. […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in womens lives | 1 Comment »

Law of the Jungle

She is a thoroughly new breed of single, older woman – confident, sophisticated, desirable and sexy – and the cougar woman is absolutely on the prowl according to Valerie Gibson, author of Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men. In what is shaping up as a relationships phenomenon of our times, many 40-something […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in age & aphrodite | 5 Comments »