Andrea Plaid is the Associate Editor of the award-winning race-and-pop-culture blog Racialicious. Her work on race, gender, sex, and sexuality has appeared at On The Issues Magazine, Change.org, Bitch, AlterNet, and Library Journal. Her work has been reprinted at, among other online sites, Penthouse and New American Media. Andrea’s writing also appears in the anthology Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica (Yee) Danforth.
Am I indeed reaching my own “sexual peak,” that legendary apex of erotic everythingness that “women” (implicitly meaning “cisgender women”) are supposed to do at the age of 40? What causes this “peak,” and what’s going on “down there” as I’m going towards this summit?
Working with reproductive-health and reproductive-justice organizations and advocates, I’ve noticed that people like me aren’t included in the discussions. No, it seems that people like me and I aren’t included too often because we’re of “a certain age”–40 years old and older, to be more precise.
