I'm also glad that you picked up on Jeff Rosenfeld's remark about privilege. We as writers or academics or people of means can have access to locations for adventure (or just the leisure time to enjoy adventures) that other people are much less able to access.

Yet your larger point seems so important. Regardless of means women create satisfying and exciting sex lives in their fifties, sixties, and beyond. Those women have often been made invisible by mainstream American culture, and I hope that in this conversation we can shine a spotlight on them for a bit.

That brings me to a question I had for you: In Prime you are very explicit about some of your own sexual adventures. How have your students or your colleagues responded to that level of personal disclosure? It struck me as particularly brave and very uncommon in the writing of academics about sex. We so often remove ourselves from the story. Yet in Prime your own story is at the center. How has that felt for you?