What was YOUR best sex １０年間? Five women 明らかにする／漏らす the age when their lives were the most 熱烈な

By Daily Mail Reporter

Updated: 13:14 BST, 28 May 2009

CLAIRE RAYNER: 50s

Claire Rayner: 'Sex with my husband 改善するd with age'

Television presenter Claire, 78, lives in Harrow-on-the-Hill, North-West London, with Desmond, her husband of 52 years.

The time I had the best sex was in my 50s.

By then I was 完全に comfortable in my own 肌, I'd raised my children and was enjoying a loving and faithful 関係 with my husband, Des.

There's nothing like 存在 全く 肉体的に at home with someone you know inside out and adore, and orgasms for women are more 激しい as you 円熟した.

I've never been a stick insect and by 50 a happy woman is like a 熟した plum.

This is the time to call your own and you can really go to town. You know all the techniques and the positions and this is the age for 引き裂く-roaring sex.

I went through the menopause in my 早期に 50s, but it was 簡単に a blip for me as I started taking HRT - until into my 早期に 70s - and it worked very 井戸／弁護士席 for me and gave me lots of energy.

When you are in your 50s you have the time and 信用／信任 to 充てる yourself to your partner, and it becomes a 関係 of equals. In your 20s and 30s, sex is often more about the man.

You might be most 肉体的に attractive then, but many women are riddled with insecurities about their 外見 and where they are going in life.

In my 20s, I was a staff nurse at the 王室の 解放する／自由な Hospital, in North-West London, and at that time nice girls didn't have sex before marriage. I was a virgin until I married at 26.

People might find that ridiculously old-fashioned, but I do think that the first 行為／法令／行動する of sex is a very tightly 社債ing experience, which creates a pair 社債 for life.

Women may be 肉体的に at their most fertile and hormonal at the age of 16, but at that age women are not ready to enjoy sex. Good sex 要求するs 技術, technique, love and caring - 非，不，無 of which young men can 供給する.

They are programmed to impregnate as many women as possible. Many men are 極端に selfish in bed in their 20s and even 30s.

Des and I had a good sex life when we were first married, but it has 改善するd with age.

During my 30s I had young children, and when you've just had a baby the last thing you want is sex. Most women just have sex after 耐えるing children for their husbands.

My 40s were a hectic time for me, with work and my children, and it was in my 50s that Des and I felt we had the time to enjoy each other, though our sex life has always been constant and loving.

Now, Des is 80 and I am coming up for 80 - we love each other just as much, if not more, and sex does continue, although 接触する and cuddles become just as important.

Someone once said 'Love is the 接触する of two 肌s', and I couldn't put it better myself.

VIRGINIA IRONSIDE: 20s

Agony aunt Virginia, 65, lives in London and is 選び出す／独身.

Virginia Ironside: 'Get as much sex out of the way while you're young' (Pic: Stephane 枢機けい／主要な/People Avenue/Corbis)

The １０年間 I had most sex in was between the ages of 16 and 26.

I think that once you've experienced sex - in my 事例／患者, at the age when it became 合法的な - you then want to find out as much about it as possible with as many different partners as you can.

And until I married when I was 28, and had a baby, there was so much sex around it almost became boring.

In the Sixties, feminism hadn't yet 後部d its 長，率いる, and it was almost a 事柄 of good manners to have sex with anyone who 選ぶd up the 法案 after a meal. It wasn't always nice or fun.

In fact, most of the sex that I had in the Sixties was grim.

For women, the phrase 'No means no' had not yet come into 存在, but the Pill was easily accessible and sex seemed the 'thing to do'.

Most of us who look 支援する on those times are horrified at what we got up to.

When I 会合，会う old friends now, いつかs I can't even remember who I slept with - but one good thing was that there hasn't been a moment since when I've wondered what I 行方不明になるd.

While I had the most sex in my 20s, in my 50s I was more 円熟した and experienced and I knew what I 手配中の，お尋ね者, with the 特別手当 of my 団体／死体 not having yet packed up.

But get as much sex out of the way as possible when you're young. Then you'll know that whatever sex life you 結局最後にはーなる with later, when you're happy and settled, is no better and no worse than that which you could be having with most other 利用できる 性の partners.?

EDWINA CURRIE: 60s

政治家，政治屋 turned writer Edwina, 63, lives in Surrey with her third husband, John Jones.

Edwina Currie: 'A man in his 60s in 十分な health is an experienced and thoughtful performer' (pic: 認める Triplow)

An Englishman needs time, they say, and in our 60s we have plenty of that.

With no train to catch, no kids to get up for school and no worries about getting 妊娠している, we can do what we want for as long as we want, and it's blissful.

A man in his 60s in 十分な health and vigour is an experienced and thoughtful performer.

I'd have fled from my better half when he was a callow 青年 driven mad by testosterone.

But I'm the third Mrs Jones in his life and he has learned how to make women happy. Oh, definitely.

Often, older people live alone and never touch anyone else for years.

I was 選び出す／独身 for a while and know all about it.

So to feel a male 手渡す on one's thigh, that special gesture which 示唆するs he's up for it tonight, is 特に delicious.

When you don't know if you have 20 years or ten weeks left together, you make the most of every moment. 存在 loved shows. We do 会談 on 巡航する ships where The Hubby, who still has his own hair, teeth and a twinkle in his 注目する，もくろむ, is often more the centre of attention than me.

More than one glamorous 未亡人 has decided she can do a better 職業 for him than I can, and has artlessly 追求するd him from deck to deck.

He can gather a little group of giggling ladies in a trice. He seems to enjoy this and I practise 存在 tolerant: I 信用 him and he's 地雷.

Mind you, one has to be careful. The bad 支援する 妨げるs swinging from the 天井, and those arthritic hips put most Kama Sutra positions beyond us.

Sadly, sex and alcohol no longer mix. One celebratory evening in a posh hotel, we'd 注目する，もくろむd each other over シャンペン酒 and played footsie under the （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する, then 手渡す-in-手渡す we swayed に向かって the bedroom.

But the アルコール飲料 was too much for me. As I drifted off to sleep I remember 審理，公聴会 a wail, as from the far distance: 'But it's my birthday ...

INGRID TARRANT: 20s

Presenter Ingrid, 54, lives with her children Samantha and Toby in Surrey, and also has two grown-up children from her first marriage.

Ingrid Tarrant: 'Feeling good about yourself is 重要な' (Pic: Stephane 枢機けい／主要な/People Avenue/Corbis)

My 20s were an exciting time for me. I was 確信して, had lots of energy and had partners I was happy with.

I 始める，決める up my own 内部の design 商売／仕事, and I felt as if I didn't have a care in the world.

That's not to say I had a lot of partners there were only a handful.

I was brought up with strict values, and I do believe in fidelity.

I was a 十代の少年少女 in the late Sixties, and experienced London in the Swinging Sixties and the advent of the Pill.

解放する／自由な love was everywhere, but that didn't やむを得ず bring happiness.

Yes, I had a 広大な／多数の／重要な sex life - the most active and enjoyable of my life.

I had a happy, 特権d しつけ in the English countryside, and this gave me 信用／信任 and a feeling of self-価値（がある） which has never left me.

Feeling good about yourself is 重要な for a young women. It's the girls who have a poor self-image who tend to sleep with lots of people to try to 上げる their own sense of 価値（がある）.

I don't think sleeping with all and sundry makes you happy -in the end, it was おもに the men who 利益d, while in many ways the Pill and 解放する／自由な love 証明するd to be 損失ing for women.

One big 問題／発行する for me was that I've never been able to separate sex and love - to me, sex is 'making love', not a simple mechanical 行為／法令／行動する. I have to be in love with a person to enjoy sex.

Fortunately, in my 20s that was usually the 事例／患者. I was living in London, enjoying myself with my boyfriends and then my first husband, whom I married at 26. I never felt I was 妥協ing my self-価値（がある）.

I had my first son, Dexter, when I was 26, and then I had Thea four years later. Having children does knock your sex life for a while, but if you are in a loving 関係, your husband should understand and it should bring you closer.

My first marriage sadl y ended when I was in my 30s. Then I married Chris Tarrant. I had two children with him in my late 30s, so that a busy time for me, too.

I enjoyed my 40s, but my 信用／信任 took a knock when our marriage ended four years ago.

I'm not bitter and I 港／避難所't given up on 関係s, but I don't think I'll re-marry. I'm happy to be 選び出す／独身 and concentrate on my children.

Yes, the break-up left me 荒廃させるd, but I don't feel it was my fault. I am not going to 許す it to 次第に損なう my self-信用／信任. I don't 行方不明になる sex. The longer you go without, the more you get used to not having it.

There are so many other things in my life, I'm happy to wait and see what happens.

JAN LEEMING: 40s

Television presenter and former newsreader Jan, 67, is 選び出す／独身 and lives in Kent. She has been married five times.

Jan Leeming: 'My 40s were a really good time for me' (Pic: Alpha-Steve Finn)

In my 中央の-40s I met the love of my life, the RAF Red Arrows 操縦する Eric Steenson, and we enjoyed seven blissful years together.

In your 40s, you don't have all those hang-ups and physical insecurities which can dog your 早期に years.

存在 educated in a convent, I had a very 避難所d しつけ, and sex was not talked about in our house, so I was very naive.

I didn't even know the facts of life until I was 18.

I was not at all 確信して in 関係s.

I married my first husband when I was just 19 - he was 35. It wasn't a happy marriage and he never made me feel 確信して sexually.

When that marriage ended, very quickly, I 急ぐd into a 一連の 関係s which were not good for my 信用／信任, either.

I do seem to attract womanisers. When people hear I have been married five times, they tend to say: 'What's wrong with you?'

I feel the question せねばならない be: 'What's wrong with the men you married?' I had my son, Jonathan, with my third husband Patrick Lunt, and we were married for six years.

成熟 has been a big factor for me - you need to know who you are, and what you want, to enjoy physical 関係s.

My 30s tended to be much more about my career, and it was a very exciting １０年間 work-wise, but not in my personal life. Then, with Eric, I was with someone I loved very much.

My 40s were a really good time for me. I felt comfortable in my own 肌, settled, and able to enjoy a 実行するing love life. So it was not only the time that I had the most sex, but the period in which I enjoyed it most.

I kept myself in 形態／調整 -I have always looked after my 負わせる and 外見 - and was very happy.

Sadly, my contentment was 粉々にするd when Eric walked out on me in 1995.

Understandably, my 信用／信任 took a nose dive. It's taken a while, but I must say that I feel comfortable and happy now, although my love life is 非，不，無-existent at the moment.

I have three platonic male friends, whose company I love. I would like to have a proper 関係, but it does become very hard to 会合，会う people, 特に when you are in the public 注目する，もくろむ.

I don't think women my age are past it. On the contrary, we are living longer, looking 広大な／多数の／重要な and enjoying ourselves 井戸／弁護士席 into our 70s, so I'm hoping that in ten years' time I'm with someon e.

PS: THE MAN'S VIEW . . . MICHAEL WINNER: 30s

Film director Michael, 73, lives in West London with his partner Geraldine Lynton Edwards.

Michael 勝利者: 'My 30s really were the golden days of my sex life'

I was a late starter. I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18, and that was thanks to a rabbi's nymphomaniac daughter - if I hadn't met her, I might still be a virgin now.

I had やめる a 避難所d しつけ at a Quaker boys' 搭乗 school, and in my 20s I was 比較して shy. But once I 攻撃する，衝突する my 30s, I really got going.

Thanks to the Swinging Sixties and then the flower 力／強力にする 時代 of the 早期に Seventies, women lost their inhibitions for the first time.

It wasn't a question of having to ask for sex - sex was 存在 自由に 申し込む／申し出d, with no strings 大（公）使館員d.

From 1965 to 1975 I must have had at least 30 to 40 lovers every year, 含むing a handful of long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 関係s.

I am afraid I was grossly unfaithful, but at least I was always honest and never pretended that the short-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 or long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 関係s would lead to marriage.

I think women liked me so much because I was amusing, and really 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるd them.

Thanks to The Beatles and the 石／投石するs, the advent of the contracept ive Pill and the sense of 'letting it all hang out', there was a general 緩和するing of morality, and sex became not just 許容できる but necessary.

I was young, I was good-looking, and I was making films such as The Jokers and I'll Never Forget Whats'is'指名する with 星／主役にするs such as Oliver Reed.

But although I had 青年, looks, 力／強力にする and money, I never used the casting couch. The sex I had was 自由に 申し込む／申し出d. Most of the women I met were through the movie 商売／仕事.

My diary had more than 200 phone numbers of some of the most beautiful women on the 惑星.

What young red-血d man could resist? The 犯罪 had been taken out of sex and it really could be just for fun. When I went to Hollywood in the 早期に Seventies I could not believe how direct the women were - it was like a major 性の 打開.

They'd say: 'We'll show you the town and then you're coming 支援する to my place.'

There was no coercion - it was a 本物の sense of equality and freedom. I never 約束d marriage, as I have a 封鎖する about it.

But I was so lucky to be part of this major sociological change. Sex in the open 空気／公表する also happened frequently - we were very inventive and adventurous indeed.

My 30s really were the golden days of my sex life.