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Daphne:
Sex is great.
If the relationship is new, it comes first, last, and everything in between.
But when you get older, when the prime of youth has passed, intimacy naturally arises.
Intimacy means sharing everything, not just your body.
Arthur:
Intimacy
is what binds you together for the rest of your life.
Daphne:
We always kiss goodbye before we leave the house, always.
When we walk on the street, we always hold hands.
He takes my hand or I take his.
We had a day off and went to bed together and had sex in the afternoon.
All the windows were open, the curtains drawn, but the windows open.
Suddenly the window swung open and Claire, our daughter, stuttered: "Mummy, there -".
Are we ashamed?
We laughed heartily.
Claire was ashamed.
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Arthur:
I know children think older people don't have sex.
But I don't think that has anything to do with age.
Daphne:
Yeah, the older we got, the more relaxed we got too. We have a decent standard of living today. I think our sex life has been really good so far. It is nice.
Daphne and Arthur, the couple from the video above, are featured on billboards across the UK right now.
She in the bra, the straps of which have slipped off her shoulder, him hugging and kissing her from behind.
Star photographer Rankin photographed the two of them, as well as four other couples and a widowed woman.
They all show themselves in intimate moments, partly in underwear, partly completely naked.
You can see them kissing or lying in bed together - and you get an impression of how sexuality can develop in old age.
Because sex and loving touch, as the women and men in the Rankin photos show, don't stop when a certain year is reached.
The poster motif of Daphne and Arthur
Source: Rankin / Relate
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“Isn't it time we talked about the friends of sex in old age?” - that is the question the campaign asks. Behind it is the non-profit organization Relate, which educates and advises people in Great Britain on the subject of sexuality. In the UK alone, 80 percent of people believe society has a problem talking about the sex life of those over 60, a Relate press release said. It is therefore a matter of reducing the stigma attached to sex among older people.
Rankin, who is known to many in Germany from his appearances in Heidi Klum's “Germany's Next Top Model” show, believes that the project can say something to many people, including the younger ones: “A very simple fact is that we everyone needs intimacy more than ever right now - and age is just a number. "
The best evidence of this is Daphne and Arthur and the other couples.
In the course of the campaign, they were also asked about their sex life, we translated the most exciting statements from the short video interviews with them into German:
Billie and Cora
Source: Relate / Rankin
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Cora:
“When people reach a certain age, they stop talking about sex.
I talk about it and I make fun of it.
To make it more normal. "
Chrissie (she had a mastectomy) and Roger
Source: Rankin / Relate
Chrissie:
“There are barriers to sex in old age.
But many of them have to do with health.
Especially if you have had an operation: then you either cannot physically have sex or you don't feel well enough to have sex.
Then the intimacy becomes noticeable, the love that a couple often connects. "
Lynne and George
Source: Rankin / Relate
Lynne:
“When you get older, you just do the things that you haven't done before out of shame.
The older we get, the more eager to experiment we become - we're just fed up with eating rice and peas every day.
After 53 years you have to spice it up. "
Margaret
Source: Relate / Rankin
Margaret:
“The sex life with my husband was intense, throughout the marriage.
The older we got, the better it got.
We were more intimate with each other because we were just the two of us.
You wouldn't just go to bed together in the middle of the day if you have young children and are always afraid that someone will come into the bedroom. "
Mark and Andrew
Source: Relate / Rankin
Mark:
“We both love to read in bed.
We're back to back.
But our feet touch each other - moments like this are more important than screwing each other out of their minds, to put it bluntly. "
Andrew:
“If you haven't had sex in a long time, that moment to start again feels almost like your teenage years. What do we do now? But once you've started again, it becomes a matter of course. "