Suzanne NobleHost, Sex Advice for Seniors · Sex, Dating & Relationship Advice for Over 50s

Seeking older couples who look real

15 Dec 2022 · 2 min

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In this YouTube clip, the speaker, a representative of the adult‑product site Sunset Satisfaction, laments how people over 50 are portrayed in advertising and media—typically as flawless, white, carefree, and affluent. She argues that real older adults, many of whom grew up in the 1960s‑70s counter‑culture, often have dyed hair, eclectic styles, and more nuanced lives. To counter these stereotypes, she invites genuine older couples to submit clean, happy photographs of themselves for use on the Sunset Satisfaction website, which sells sex toys and accessories. She provides a contact email (wordpress@sunset-satisfaction.com) and emphasizes that the images should look real, not staged in fields or depicting wealth. The overall purpose is to obtain authentic visual content that better reflects the lived experience of older adults while promoting the brand.

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One of the big bugbears I think that nearly every single person that I know over 50 has is with the way that people of our age are represented in advertising, on television, all that sort of thing. Usually we've got short, perfect gray-white hair, we're skipping through fields, we're lying on beaches, we're looking like we've got loads of money, we've got not a care in the world, and we're just and we're always white and we're always just perfect, just perfect. But we know that mostly people of our age aren't like that. Let's face it, most of us that grew up in the '60s and '70s were hippies and punks and we're still dyeing our hair wacky colors and doing all of that sort of things. So we would love to have more appropriate representation of couples for our new website, Sunset Satisfaction, which sells sex toys and accessories. So if the thought of being on a website, looking your glorious self in your partnership doesn't freak you out, then please send us some images that you're happy for us to use, clean ones, and we will consider them for our site, Sunset Satisfaction. And you can do that by sending us an email at wordpress@sunset-satisfaction.com, and it will arrive with me and We will consider it. Lovely images of couples that look real and genuine and happy, but not skipping through fields and not looking like you're all loaded. Thank you.