The universe has good news for the lost, lonely and heartsick.
The sugars are here speaking straight into your ears.
I'm Steve Almond.
I'm Cheryl strayed.
This is dear sugars.
Oh dear song won't you please.
Share.
Some little sweetness with me?
I check my bell vibes every day.
Oh and the sugar you see in my way.
Hi Steve.
Hi Cheryl.
So today we're doing one of those episodes, like so many of our episodes, that really rose out of our inbox.
I was going through letters and preparation for this season and I came upon really a whole trove of messages from people in their fifties, sixties, seventies and beyond who were asking us about sex.
That's right.
I mean this is the thing.
We have a culture that neuters anybody who's above 50.
We certainly don't discuss and we don't show images of people of that age having an erotic life, having an erotic imagination.
And when you suggested the show, I thought about two books that I'd read within the last year, both of which I think are so brilliant at bringing out of the shadows the reality that we're going to have a body our whole lives and therefore desires and an erotic life.
And the first one was this novel, our souls at night by the author Kent Harrif.