Sex in your seventies: ‘We’ve tried sex toys and role play to spice things up’ 

Keith and partner Heather are determined not to let their age get in the way of an exciting sex life (Picture: Supplied)

Keith Leech wasn’t looking for love when it found him. Both newly separated, he and friend Heather had always shared an easy camaraderie in the circle they shared in Hastings in the 90s. But one afternoon in the pub, Keith, then in his forties, noticed something shift.

‘I felt a really strange feeling. Like some external force was pushing us together,’ he remembers. Heather, who was in her thirties at the time, felt the same. ‘It suddenly was like the fates were doing something.’

Neither of them had planned on starting something new; both were fresh out of marriages, with children to think about, but sparks were flying. That evening, they shared a passionate kiss on Keith’s sofa.

After trying, and failing, to keep things platon...