I had a reason for talking about radio in Part I of this article. How the images you conjured up in your mind as you listened were so much better than any multi-million dollar special effect you see in movies today. Every film with a $200 million budget—most of that budget goes toward creating those SPECIAL EFFECTS with very sophisticated computer programs. Not so with your imagination, which is fully capable of conjuring up the most brilliant of scenarios all on its own, and it’s totally free. The sky really is the limit where your imagination is concerned.

I am going to take it for granted that you have some free time on your hands. Remember the hours you spent on Day Dreams? Are such personal indulgences really the strict property of the young? NO they are not! And remember how much fun they were? Oh, sure. You knew the odds of your pitching for the Yankees, scoring the winning touchdown in the national championship game, walking on the moon, scoring with the cutest girl in school, etc.—were just that. Dreams only, and nowhere related to reality. But, boy, how great they were inside your head—where everything was possible. Does it occur to you that still might still be the case? That everything is possible? You won’t know that, of course, unless you go inside yourself and start exploring.

When was the last time you indulged in such mental meanderings? I think what happens is, as we mature, we decide what a waste of time it is to invite fantasies into our minds. After all, none of them are ever going to come true, so why bother? Well, it’s true that you will not likely be pitching for the Yankees or walking on the moon in this lifetime, and there is no cutest girl in school anymore.

But, dreams are the fodder we use to build our realities, and if you are not willing to step inside that plane, you are sure to discover you are going nowhere at all.

When I was a kid, we had radio. I loved radio! When that spooky voice at the start of Inner Sanctum said, “Turn out the lights,” I always did. I listened to those stories in the dark and for that half hour, I was often scared to death. Great! The thing is, the only images were the ones inside my mind. The ones that voice was creating. No multi-million dollar special effect can ever come close to making you experience the wonder of your own imagination.

Why am I telling you this? Because I want you to have a pretty good idea of what generation I’m from. Yours. The generation Sixty Is Sexy Now has been created for.

There are many other web sites out there targeting our most fascinating generation, so why should you become a regular visitor to this one? Because of the utterly delightful people you’ll meet here starting with the fabulous woman who created this site, Roberta Edgar. You’ll get to know her better as you read the insightful articles she’ll regularly contribute to SISN.        

Then there’s me. That’s my name at the top of this page. Manny Diez. As I sit here this morning, I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to write to fill in the space under that title, but that’s why I love writing so much. It’s always a journey of discovery!

From One Man To Another. That would be from me to you. On what subject? Sports? Fun but go to another site for that one. Less you forget, this one is called Sixty Is Sexy Now. The clear implication being that at sixty and over you can still be sexy. Works for me.

Think about that comment for a moment. If it sounds even a little bit silly, it’s only because “society,” is so focused on youth. Hello? Don’t those kids realize that if they’re lucky, they will one day be the age we are now? When you were their age, did you?

No sports. No financial tips. No fashion suggestions. Just you and I talking about being sexy at sixty. Man-to-man. Now that doesn’t mean we don’t want a woman to ride along with us. Hell no! Women are what it’s all about. How can we possibly talk about being sexy without them?

The first book I wrote, Meeting Women 101, became a national bestseller because I talked to men of all ages about the best and easiest ways to meet woman. The last chapters are titled: MEN 60 AND ABOVE AND BIG CITY WOMEN and MEN 60 AND ABOVE AND SMALL TOWN WOMEN. And yes, there is a difference. (If you’re interested in learning more on the subject, there’s a place on this site where you can order the e-book version and become an instant expert.)

See? When I typed the headline above, I had no idea what I’d be writing to you about and here we are, talking about being sexy at sixty. I really can’t think of anything more fun than that, can you—or more fulfilling on a social level, which, as we all know is crucial to our quality of life and even our longevity?

Now doesn’t logic dictate that the longer you’ve been doing something, the better you get at it? When you were in your teens, hormones raging, lusting after every cute young girl you saw, how was your sexual IQ then compared to what it is today? Chances are you were a rank amateur compared to the pro you are now. Yeah, you know all about females. Nothing left for you to learn. After all, sex is sex, right? Wrong! Oh, sure, the basics are still the basics, but is that all you want? Basics? Hey, the clock is ticking, and isn’t it time you learned from your mistakes and profited from your experience?

I wonder who it was you learned The Facts of Life from? Ideally, that’s a father’s job, but not so for our generation. Dads couldn’t handle that very touchy subject. Moms? Don’t think so. An older brother? Maybe. But what did he know? Less than he wanted you to think. So your Sex Ed was what your buddies, also amateurs, told you. Or what you read in those books you weren’t supposed to read, which were fiction. Sex Ed was what you learned as you went along, so if you picked up some bad info, it stayed with you to this day.

Tell me. Who do you think is the person most qualified to teach you about sex? Teach you how to please a woman? Hint. It’s none of your male friends. No. The ONLY experts capable of telling you how to please a woman are women. If you have never taken full advantage of that expert resource, then your Sex Ed isn’t complete. How cool is that? It means there are areas of your sexuality you can improve on! New stuff you can learn about sex!

If you’re married, you are already sleeping with your teacher. Did that most secret desire ever occur to you when you were a young boy? Lusting after one of your female teachers? In my case, it was the school nurse, but then that was a fantasy common with all the boys in that school. She was gorgeous, after all.

I put the title in quotes because Dr. Sigmund Freud once asked that exact question. He never got an answer. If Doctor Freud was not able to find out what it was that women wanted then, what makes us think we can figure it out now?

Well, the good doctor had a major problem we don’t have. In the late 1800s, women were not encouraged to express their opinions, quite the contrary. And the restriction on women to discuss their more intimate feelings was an even stronger taboo. As a result, whatever inner feelings women had way back then were kept strictly private. Even while primly stretched out on Dr. Freud’s couch, there was no way in heaven they were going to share their most intimate thoughts and feelings with him.

Welcome to the world of the 21^st Century woman. Now she’s perfectly willing to bare her soul, and Lord knows what else, on the Internet, via YouTube, MySpace, her own personal blog. This is a good thing. If we pay even the slightest bit of attention, women will tell us exactly not only what they want, but indeed expect from the men in their lives.

The good news. Because this website is called SIXTY IS SEXY NOW, you gentlemen reading this don’t have to try to figure out what 20-year old women want, unless of course you are one of those men who prefers dating adolescents

The rest of us can turn our attention to women who have gracefully passed into their fifth decade of living and having done so, have accumulated enough hard-learned wisdom to have a very good idea about what it is she wants in a man. It’s not that complicated.

She wants a man who is at least her intellectual equal. She wants a man who practices proper personal hygiene. She wants a man who will stand beside her and support her, in all things. She wants a man she can trust, with her life. She wants a man who is honest—with himself and with her. She wants a man she can respect, look up to. She wants a man who will be passionate about everything, including sex. She wants a man who will make her laugh and also laughs easily himself. She wants a man who treats everyone as equals—from the wait staff in a restaurant to the president of the bank—always respecting people for WHO they are, not WHAT they are.

See? It’s not such a long list. Today’s woman is wise enough to know she isn’t going to find all of those qualities in one man because if she does, another woman has already married him.