Craving Sex At 60

Talking about sex is an uncomfortable proposition for many, and talking about older people having sex is the ultimate taboo.

But now, one older American is putting her personal story of late-life romances and rendez-vous center stage, telling the whole world that senior citizens can be sexual.

Jane Juska, a former school teacher in her 60s, divorced, the mother of a grown son, and unattached at the time, suddenly realized that if she didn't take action soon, she might never have sex again.

She placed an ad in the New York Review of Books (home of the first personals section), and got 63 responses. Juska took a year off to meet some of the men who answered her ad. The result is "A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance."

She visited The Early Show to talk about her book and what she learned about herself.

"Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me," read the $136.50 ad Juska placed just four years ago.

The responses to Juska's ad varied greatly, from downright perverted to beautiful prose. Nevertheless, she plowed through the 63 responses, out to meet a man (or men) she could have lots of sex with.

The whole idea came after Juska went to see the French film, "An Autumn Tale." In the film, a woman decides to write a personal ad for a widowed, single girlfriend who cannot seem to meet a man. In the end, the craftiness of the friend works (or so Jaska likes to believe.) It has a typically French ending; the woman who wrote the ad finds the "perfect match" for her friend, they meet and seemingly hit it off, leaving viewers with the question of "will they or won't they?"). Cutting out the middleman, Juska decided to post her own personal ad.