Most of this commentary declares that people over 55 still very much enjoy sex, nearly as much as when younger. What is inferred, however, is that these people are in long-term relationships, where there has been at least some attempt over time to work out all differences between the parties, and, to enjoy their "being together" status over time to continue to explore sex. That is all well and good if your have been with your partner for many years, but, what about people who have not had long-term partners? I am a 60- year old healthy male who has not been recently with a partner. I find one of my biggest difficulties is visualizing an intimate relationship with a woman at all. It's been long enough away from intimacy that I do not think of women I meet as potential sex partners really at all. I realize that time away from the process has not ratcheted up my sex drive to mind-(and body)-exploding heights, but, instead, I can only think of potential partners in terms of the other social aspects of relationships-- companionship, doing like-minded activities together, etc. Not so much about sex. I live in the higher-consciousness psychological realm when it comes to contemplation of beginning relationships with women I may have just met, and I pretty much never enter that lower-brain consciousness level required for surrender to sexual impulses and activities of all types. I just never see myself in that persona. I mean no disrespect to any woman, but, at my age, I can't see my potential partners as being physically attractive enough in and of themselves to have that factor alone be enough to get me interested in intimacy with them. What does a person in my position do to confront this circumstance? If I told any guy how long it's been since I've had sex, they might assume that most guys would have gone literally crazy, but, I'm not particularly perturbed by this scenario. I'd like to resume intimacy, but, in my circumstance, I don't see how I can do so.