

While promoting her proposed stage play, 'Hear Word' where
she plays a sexually active old woman, veteran actress, Taiwo
Ajai-Lycett, said old people still enjoy sex and some are quite sexually
active.
"I am an old woman in the play and in real
life. I am 73. The society doesn't think older women exist anymore, nobody
thinks they feel anything. The people around old women never realize they are
going through a turmoil, nobody cares about them. So what I am trying to
portray is that it's not over until it is over. That an old woman is still
alive in more ways than one, they still have sexual urges, people forget an old
woman is human. An old woman enjoys her sexual life more when she no longer
thinks about children's school fees, when the children have all gone to their
husband's houses or in some cases the boys have married and it remains only the
old woman and her husband. It never crosses our mind that these old parents can
still get on whenever they like. Do you know that when an old man realizes he
is free from child bearing, he becomes promiscuous and they are susceptible to
all kinds of diseases. But the old woman is confined to a corner in the house,
nobody thinks she is still actually active" she said.
'Hear Word' is slated to be staged at MUSON centre!
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