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The firm was making 4, pairs of traditional shoes a week but the strong value of the pound, interest rate rises and the flood of imports proved insurmountable. The owner of a store selling footwear favoured by cross-dressers and drag queens rang to ask if Steve could make thigh-high boots, in red or black leather or PVC, in male sizes. Realising there could be a lucrative new market he researched his potential customer base and began creating his own designs.
So Steve decided to turn most of the factory over to producing this specialised range called Divine Footwear. It was seen by the makers of Calendar Girls who were convinced the remarkable story would make another great comedy film. The result was Kinky Boots, which first hit the big screen in with the tag line: On a business trip he meets a drag queen called Lola and after watching him in cabaret hatches the plan to move into kinky footwear.
The following year it moved to Broadway and won six Tony awards, including best musical and best score for Lauper, though Hollywood and Broadway took liberties with the truth. In real life there was never anyone resembling Lola but some actual events were even more bizarre than anything dreamed up by the scriptwriters. Unsurprisingly none of the male workers volunteered but it was suggested Steve, a burly amateur rugby player, should step up to the plate. Competitors soon caught on and Steve was faced with the old problem of cheap foreign imports, plus blatant copies of his boots.
The photos have pulled men of 22 — and yes, I could almost be their grandmother — up to My timelines are packed with splendid males, creatures so beautiful that I gasp. Analogue life was never like this. I arrange drinks with younger men and some older. After so many years of having sex with myself, would the old girl downstairs remember what to do? More and more people in my age range are getting STIs and worse.
This alone makes me feel part of a vanguard of sexual vampires who refuse to die.
Dryness is news to me. I go into hostess mode. I put out snacks.
I remember doing this before the internet! He feels amazing, seems pleased enough and I almost snog the life out of him. Afterwards, he sleeps in completely clobbered stillness and leaves the next morning like a gentleman. But my parts have taken a hit. I must be OK. Getting back into the sex game post-menopause is a little trickier than first time around when the only prerequisites were wearing your best frock and getting drunk.
I actually have to be prepared and careful. For the first time in my life, I buy lubricant for myself and not for the car. Yes, I find a few more men and they are, every single one of them, sexy and gorgeous. I never thought I liked younger men, but I do — not just for their performance levels, although there is that. I love their hopefulness, kindness and interest. Mainly, they are confident and happy and they know a lot more about sex than they should.
Are they all equipped with girlfriends at 12? Do I have online porn to thank for this? But I stop myself. These are men, not therapists or girlfriends. Sex toys are my best friends. The older I get the hornier I get. I experience this as a kind of liberation. I have new respect for the power of the biological urge now that hormones are releasing their hold on me. Sex is great at any age.
I had always been a very sexual person up until my 40s, when I seemed to lose interest. But just a few days after my operation, I had strong sexual urges and experienced my first post-op orgasm soon after. I feel sexual every day as opposed to sexy — I am a fat, scarred old grandmother after all!
Having lost my libido before my surgery, I do understand where Steinem is coming from. Men my age who are available are only ever looking for young totty.
I feel as though caught between the devil and the deep blue sea for trying to behave according to the norms for women. I feel the same.
I have more time to pursue what I really want in life and not be distracted by various sex-related mis adventures. There were also female customers and the boots flew off the production line. Laurett Fenn is a pseudonym. It made a huge difference. UK News Last updated: Women in their 70s Women in their 60s Women in their 50s Women in their 40s Women in their 30s.
Looking back, I had two young children, a job and an unhappy marriage, so it would suggest my lack of sex drive in past years was affected by external factors. My husband and I have had fights about my lack of sex drive. It is so fabulously empowering to have a sex drive that is lower than what I had in my teens, 20s and 30s.
I have more time to pursue what I really want in life and not be distracted by various sex-related mis adventures. I find it has also made me more appropriately assertive when it comes to dealing with male colleagues older and younger. In my teens and 20s, I felt ashamed of my body. I am confident in my skin in my mids.
“Sex took a back seat during my thirties and forties while I was raising These lads are dressing up as kinky pups in bizarre sex fetish that is. Have your say: Gloria Steinem's 80th birthday declaration: a dwindling libido makes a I feel sexual every day (as opposed to sexy – I am a fat, scarred old grandmother after all!) and truly One's 40s, 50s and beyond are so underrated! . 25 Mar 3 4. I believe you're thinking of Sophocles.
No longer am I pre-occupied by what others think or say about me My sex drive has been altered by babies and cancer. These external influences put restrictions on my sex life, but a long-term, loving partner combined with a comfort about my body mean that I have less anxiety about my sexuality.