'Old women still have sexual urges' - actress Taiwo Ajai-Lycett says

While promoting her stage play, Hear Word, where she plays a sexually
active old woman, veteran actress Taiwo Ajai-Lycett, said old people
still enjoy sex and some are quite sexually active.

"I am an old woman in the play and in real life. I am 73. The society
doesn't think older women exist anymore, nobody thinks they feel
anything. The people around old women never realize they are going
through a turmoil, nobody cares about them. So what I am trying to
portray is that it's not over until it is over. That an old woman is
still alive in more ways than one, they still have sexual urges,
people forget an old woman is human. An old woman enjoys her sexual
life more when she no longer thinks about children's school fees, when
the children have all gone to their husband's houses or in some cases
the boys have married and it remains only the old woman and her
husband. It never crosses our mind that these old parents can still
get on whenever they like. Do you know that when an old man realizes
he is free from child bearing, he becomes promiscuous and they are
susceptible to all kinds of diseases. But the old woman is confined to
a corner in the house, nobody thinks she is still actually active" she
said