Sex/uality Artifacts

Hi I’m Bethany Skees and I presented my second artifact in relation to the article “Feeling Old and Ugly? Look Again” written by Margaret M. Gullette. In this article, Margaret steers away from the stigma that old people are ugly and cannot be sexy anymore by rediscovering her body in a whole new light. She comments that when she was younger, there were plenty of things she would have liked to change about herself but now that she is older she thinks she is very sexy and she is so happy that she is aging. When describing her body, she uses words such as sturdy, touchable, elegant, powerful, and voluptuous. These are not words you are likely to think about when thinking about an aging body. I figured everybody that used this article would find pictures and videos of beautiful old women and I wanted be a bit more challenging. The video I showed is a video titled “Old is Sexy” and it is basically a home made antique furniture store commercial. I chose this because the title itself is extremely related to this article, but also because I feel there are so many things in our society that we love even more when it ages. Wine, cars, furniture. Our amazing bodies should not be an exception. We should grow to love our bodies more and more the older we get because they have kept us alive all these years.