Have you kissed a Boomer lately?
I have – under the mistletoe on Christmas Eve. Not gonna say what happened after that…But I promise you the generation that ushered in the sexual revolution hasn’t stopped having a good time under the covers – or anywhere else we can think of, for that matter.
Did you know there are 78 million Baby Boomers in the U.S.? Boomer media expert Nancy Padberg shared some facts about Boomers in a recent interview. According to her, we are “the healthiest, wealthiest, most educated, and prosperous generation thus far.” Her interview goes on to say Boomers “control 70 percent of the total net worth in the U.S. They spend an average of $3 trillion dollars per year and an additional $7 billion online. They purchase 41 percent of new cars and shell out for 80 percent of luxury travel…and spend an average of 15 hours per week online.”
She makes us sound like a pretty hot catch!
So the two halves of Adriana thought we’d share some of our Boomer erotic romance heroines with you to start off the New Year right. One thing about Boomers – researchers have noted that as we age, we tend to become more “sexually fluid.” Our heroines range from Straight to Bi to Lesbian. We’ll let you sort it out, below:
In Jolie Du Pre’s Epic Award Nominated anthology The Cougar Book, our short story “A Taste of Ginger” offers an incredible night of decadence and sensuality for our newly divorced mid-life heroine, Ginger. Against her better judgment she’s let a co-worker talk her into an evening at a swing club. When Annette tells her a handsome young man at the bar is checking her out she wants to run the other way—but Annette abandons her to pursue her own interests, and Ginger must make her choice for the night of a lifetime!
Martha Richards in Mistress of Purgatory Point has just turned fifty. A tender ghost story and a sizzling erotic romance with a splash of BDSM, this book is also the deeply moving chronicle of the mid-life sexual awakening of a stoic widow who thought she’d already experienced her one allotted love. One man, two women and two ghosts keep love’s fires burning through the deep chill of a North Woods winter—but which love will hold the key?
Probably our Boomer couple Jen and Brett Andrews are the most adventurous. Empty nesters in their mid fifties, they decided to explore the swing lifestyle together as Jen began to discover she had bisexual leanings. Our novella series Swinging Games chronicles their capers – six books and counting!
In A Woman for Zachary, Zach Cullen and Josie Patrice are seasoned New Yorkers who’ve been friends in the theater world for years. Budding young actress Meghan Keenan hooks up with each of them, then fans the sparks between them and exits stage left once the heat rises.
In our short story for Torquere’s Tattooed Ladies Lesbian Anthology, Natalie Gardner can’t believe she’s letting herself lust after her young massage therapist Cindy McGraw. An invitation to try out tattoo designs through body painting proves irresistible!
And finally, a late fifties pair of secondary characters we introduced in Smoldering Passion are cooking up schemes of their own in our W.I.P. Ripening Passion, undergoing final revisions as we speak. Watch our blog for announcements about Max Wilson and Claire Johnson as they lead the way into their sixties with grace and humor (and lots of steamy sex).
Oh, and one final note – it’s well documented that having lots of sex keeps a person looking and feeling younger. Perhaps that’s the secret behind Matt Thornhill’s recently reported news that on average, Baby Boomers feel nine years younger than their chronological age. We’ll keep working at it, hope you do, too – with an erotic romance to spice up foreplay!
