{"id":2306308,"date":"2026-03-01T10:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2306308"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:09:29","slug":"why-should-life-stop-for-any-of-us-penny-lancaster-on-why-sex-and-intimacy-shouldnt-end-with-menopause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-should-life-stop-for-any-of-us-penny-lancaster-on-why-sex-and-intimacy-shouldnt-end-with-menopause\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why should life stop for any of us?\u2019: Penny Lancaster on why sex and intimacy shouldn\u2019t end with menopause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"36b3de91-a49b-427d-88f2-218181568bf0\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/exclusive-penny-lancaster-body-hang-ups-weight-loss\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/exclusive-penny-lancaster-body-hang-ups-weight-loss\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/exclusive-penny-lancaster-body-hang-ups-weight-loss\/\">Penny Lancaster<\/a> has joined a number of celebrities speaking out against the taboo of sex and intimacy in later life.<\/p>\n<p>The star joined the <em>Loose Women<\/em> panel to discuss <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/prue-leith-intimacy-later-life\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/prue-leith-intimacy-later-life\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/prue-leith-intimacy-later-life\/\">Prue Leith&#8217;s<\/a> recent revelation that at the age of 86, she uses testosterone gel to keep her libido alive &#8211; a doctor had previously told the former <em>Bake Off<\/em> judge that people of her age have normally &#8220;given up&#8221; on having sex.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"36b3de91-a49b-427d-88f2-218181568bf0-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Fellow panellists Christine Lampard, Nadia Sawalha and Gloria Hunniford also shared their thoughts on this important topic.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid &#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;            font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex custom-thumbnail-list-styles\"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Penny rightly points out that just because women lose their hormones during <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/menopause\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/menopause\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/tag\/menopause\/\">menopause<\/a>, there&#8217;s no reason they should lose their sex lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#8220;Why should life stop at all, for any of us?&#8221; she asks, adding that she also buys testosterone gel like Prue, &#8220;because I want to feel virile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">When asked if she wants to feel as virile as her husband, 81-year-old Rod Stewart, Penny shares, &#8220;No-one can beat him! There&#8217;s 80 and there&#8217;s 80 &#8211; there&#8217;s not being able to get out of bed, and there&#8217;s going touring around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Penny continues that as an older woman, &#8220;You want to feel relevant, you want to feel powerful and strong,&#8221; revealing that since taking testosterone herself, her &#8220;spark is back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-3fJwaSmbcKBcXnR7ASDfMo\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-3fJwaSmbcKBcXnR7ASDfMo slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up to our free daily email for the latest royal and entertainment news, interesting opinion, expert advice on styling and beauty trends, and no-nonsense guides to the health and wellness questions you want answered.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"edb060d8-3db9-4d6b-a502-83aa436ae0a1\">Gloria Hunniford also offered her opinion on sex in later life. Although she was happy for Prue, she did admit to feeling less enthusiastic about maintaining a sex life at her age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well done Prue,&#8221; she began, adding that although she&#8217;d had 30 &#8220;fabulous&#8221; years with her husband Stephen, who sadly passed away in 2024, sex wasn&#8217;t something she was looking for at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The thought of stripping my clothes off and jumping into bed with a new man, forget it,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-b border-solid border-[#333]\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t-[#333] after:border-t after:border-solid &#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t-[#333] before:border-t before:border-solid&#10;            font-article-heading pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333] flex custom-thumbnail-list-styles\"><br \/>\n            You may like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Gloria continues, &#8220;Prue has always been very open about her sex life when she wrote in magazines, and I think, well done Prue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ladies also discuss the ongoing stigma surrounding older women having sex, and why this needs to be addressed with children from a young age.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia shares that when her daughter had her first sex education lesson at school, she was later &#8220;sat on the bed as white as a sheet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She adds that her daughter was &#8220;really weird with us for quite a while afterwards,&#8221; because &#8220;she was just so disgusted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was then conversation among the panellists that while it might be challenging for children to understand that their parents have sex, it&#8217;s best to normalise the fact that adults can have sex until the end of their lives, and this is very natural.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Miriam Stoppard has also spoken about <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/sexuality-later-in-life-womans-hour\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/sexuality-later-in-life-womans-hour\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.womanandhome.com\/life\/news-entertainment\/sexuality-later-in-life-womans-hour\/\">sexuality in later life<\/a> recently, saying, &#8220;Older people have the right to be sexual, have the right to take pleasure in their sexuality, have the right to be inventive and experimental.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advocating for women to be supported to continue having sex for as long as they wish, Dr Stoppard says, &#8220;A woman&#8217;s body has the ability to respond to sexual activity and sexual play, in exactly the same way as it did when she was younger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She explains, &#8220;A woman&#8217;s body is a miracle; it can respond sexually until the very end and the orgasms may be more intense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.womanandhome.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penny Lancaster has joined a number of celebrities speaking out against the taboo of sex and intimacy in later life. 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