‘I didn’t find my sexual stride until I turned 50’ Credit: Enrico Datu When I first met my ex-boyfriend Alexander* at a Christmas ball in 2018, we ended the evening with me sprawled across my dining room table, enjoying a mind-blowing orgasm. At the time, I was 51. Over the course of our relationship, which ended last July, our lovemaking repertoire expanded to include acts of intimacy I’d have shied away from at any other age. Our sex life was spontaneous and exciting in a way that I’d never experienced in my younger years – and discovering this level of satisfaction and sexual fulfilment in midlife has been an absolute revelation.