“I don’t know if you’ve ever taken all your clothes off in front of a young person you don’t really know,” writes Emma Thompson – who appears naked for the first time in her career in ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ – “It’s a little bit intimidating.”
A 62-year-old retired religious education teacher , who has never had an orgasm, hires a 28-year-old male sex worker to help expand her horizons. This is the story of the film, which was written by Katy Brand and sent to me with an “Is this anything that might intrigue you?” kind of message.
I don’t know if you’ve ever taken all your clothes off in front of a young person you don’t really know. Never assume anything. But if you haven’t, I’m here to tell you that it’s a little bit intimidating. Especially if you’re a post-menopausal woman in her sixties who’s recently eaten far too many Tunnock’s Tea Cakes owing to lockdown comfort-seeking, and the young person is in startlingly perfect shape owing to playing someone whose job requires them to be in perfect shape.
But actually, I don’t think that attending to women’s pleasure, young or old, is at the top of anyone’s to-do list.– but I was very diffident about my looks and my body as a young actress, and certainly had none of the attributes that appealed to overwhelmingly male producers who tended to cast women they “wanted to f**k”. So, I didn’t do it all that often.
Sexual assistance – why isn’t it on the National Health? Sex is free, natural, normal, delightful, good for us and, as Leo says in the film, inaccessible to some for all kinds of perfectly valid reasons. It’s a public health issue.
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