"A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages"
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Hall is pushing against two overlapping scripts. One is the ageism that turns women into before-and-after photos, with “after” coded as invisibility. The other is the polite lie that older people should “move on” from erotic life into gentler, more acceptable forms of companionship. By insisting a “healthy love life” matters “at all ages,” she reframes intimacy as a wellbeing issue, not a vanity project. “Healthy” does a lot of work here: it signals consent, mutuality, and self-respect, while dodging the prurient gaze that often greets older sexuality.
Context matters: Hall’s career sits inside a machine that fetishizes the new and discards the aging. For her to advocate longevity of desire reads as insider testimony, not abstract empowerment. It also quietly broadens the conversation beyond sex as performance. Love life, in her framing, is a right to pleasure, touch, and connection that doesn’t expire when the industry stops calling.
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Hall, Jerry. (2026, January 15). A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-healthy-love-life-is-not-and-should-not-be-the-154646/
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Hall, Jerry. "A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-healthy-love-life-is-not-and-should-not-be-the-154646/.
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"A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/a-healthy-love-life-is-not-and-should-not-be-the-154646/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.











