I am a magazine hound. I buy magazines and then I keep them for forever and a day. It isn't as bad as hording, but it can be annoying. I think I still have copies of Windows Sources magazine from 1991 where they bench mark a number of 386 computers and give you a sneak peak at the new line of 486 DX2s (sorry, geek moment).

Anyhow, I was looking through the April 2008 issue of Best Life and ran across an itty-bitty article on the bottom of page 48 called 'Tech-Savvy Seduction'. It listed 5 ways that Regina Lynn, the author of Sexier Sex: Lessons from the Brave New Sexual Frontier, suggests to make sex in our more mature years sexier.

1. Choose an IM screen name for your role-playing character (say Zorro69), then play out one of your wife's fantasies while you're at work or away on business
2. When you're out together at a party, send her a dirty text message like 'I can still taste you,' and then tell her what you're going to do to her when you get home
3. Using your camera phone, send images to her cell of unexpected parts of your body that she adores (say your earlobe or your anklebone)
4. Tell her an erotic story in installments throughout the day - on her voicemail. Cut it off before you reach the end and tell her you'll finish it in person
5. Take a picture of yourself and break it up into smaller images. Send her one a day. When she puts it together, she wins a prize: you, unwrapped

Having read that I wondered if, during my older years, I have lost the romance. OR, am I just more efficient?? After reading some of these suggestions I kept thinking to myself 'Wow, that takes a lot of time. Can't I just go and be nice and chat my wife up, give her a few suggestive kisses and then sail the salami boat to tuna town?'.

I can't speak for everyone because everyone's situation and lifestyle is different. Does this work? I mean, I'm not a complete Neanderthal but I feel like some of these suggestions seem a little risky to pull off OR my wife would wonder what the heck I'm doing and what was wrong with me.

Ultimately, it comes down to the question for us moldy oldies: after some time with your significant other how do you spice up your sex life? And how important and how difficult is that to do after you've had children?

If I did any of that stuff to my wife she'd suspect I was having an affair.

Sex after kids? With my wife?

I wish.

Fine. How about with my wife?

Fine. Give me her phone number, I'll send her some pics of my body parts... But only if she reciprocates.

I am the Zorro69.

Your womans are powerless for my manly sexual advances. They melt like the butter in the palm of my black, leather gloves. They moan with the delight at the sound of my whip snapping.

In short, I am the man - you are the little boys.

Zorro69 is...
The Most Interesting Man in the World.

Hmm very interesting from feedback from my female friends I have found those that brag are usually hung like horse "flys"

Interesting thread puzzlehead and have never been married I still like my single status but been close a few times. I find every woman different so on what you posted I don't think its as general as that

Plenty of lead left in my pencil and hoping to use it in New Hampshire soon
(Unless Megan shows back up single and horny .. oops did I say that out loud lol)

So, do you ever get bored or jealous of those who are hitched? I'm sure there are times we married folk fantasize about being single.

Not at all I am 41 and never been married came close a few times but I have my freedom. I have met 4 women in my life that have made me think of marriage, one was too young but always wet, the second was a friend for years but there was no passion, the third is so close to me in fact I am talking to her as I post this but not sure, The 4th I think is my soulmate and the woman I will marry

Confused yet?

I can pick up and slam any biatch whenever I want but if she is gonna be my lady for life there is gonna be more to her than sucking chrome off a trailer hitch

My womans are never complaining about the size of my manhood.

Then my brother the rule amongst men is if our ladies don't complain we don't worry about it

Not to you she doesn't, but when she's in my bed she likes to laugh at how small you are compared to me...

I seem to recall the words "smaller than my pinkie finger" being thrown around.

Is that for Zorro or me .... if its me your badly misinformed

Zorro. His woman is constantly crying to me about him. Fortunately, I love it when a woman cries during sex.

LOL

What's sex?