Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are one of Hollywood’s ultimate romantic love stories.
And after 42 years together she has shared the secrets behind how he keeps her smiling - namely, not getting married and keeping their bedroom antics alive into their 80s.
Sex later in life can be such a taboo subject, but Goldie goes to show if the desire is there, why should you give it up?
“I think he's an amazing person. I have respect for him and I’m also very sexually attracted to him and that’s important,” says Goldie says about Kurt, who she started dating in 1983 when they filmed the movie Swing Shift.
© WWD via Getty Images“If you have a long term sexual relationship, that’s actually really healthy.
“So he’s my sexual object. He’s the person that makes me laugh hard and he’s so smart. I find him incredibly handsome to this day,” she told the Dan Buettner Podcast.
Research from Age UK shows that while three in five over‑50s believe a healthy sex life remains important in later life, 39% feel uncomfortable talking about it. Goldie goes to prove that shouldn’t be the case.
While many older people still assume intimacy naturally declines with age, it can continue to be a meaningful, comforting and deeply personal part of life.
Goldie and Kurt’s commitment to having sex later in life, shouldn’t be a taboo, according to advice from Dr Miriam Stoppard. In her new book Sex, Drugs and Walking Sticks, the TV personality and agony aunt challenges the long‑held belief that desire fades with age.
"The younger generation always kind of shies away from an image of an older person having sex," she told Woman’s Hour.
"Of course, sex in one's older years isn't the same as when you were a lustful youth, but I wanted to address this kind of taboo that exists about people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s and beyond.
“It’s a matter of rights. 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."
After 42 years together, Goldie - also founder of children’s mental health programme MindUp and author of The After-School Kindness Crew: Pooch on the Loose, says she doesn’t feel the need to marry the love of her life.
And the reason is she thrives on the freedom not being married gives her. “When I say freedom, it means liberation. I don't feel penned in,” she tells People magazine. “We don't always agree on stuff, which is fine. We're both very spontaneous. [Our relationship] fed on a lot of goodness, a lot of wonderful life together.”
