Isabeli Fontana | Harper's Bazaar Russia March 2010 | France Celebrates Female Sensuality At Every Age

In France women have great sex lives after 50. Just looking at these Isabeli Fontana for Harpers Bazaar Russia March 2010, she imbues the screen with a confident, smart-woman sensuality.

The more I’ve studied Isabeli Fontana, I find her photographer critical in delivering her sensuality ‘on screen’.

Certain women project their sensuality in all cases. Not so with Fontana. Photographer Marcin Tyszka delivers a soldering Isabeli, styled by Natalia Alaverdian. Kudos to both!

Unlike American women over 50, who have less sex now than before the second wave of feminism launched, French women over 50 are leading rich, sensual lives. The French culture has much to do with this trend.

Just 15 percent of Frenchwomen in their 50s and 27 percent in their 60s haven’t had any sex in the past year, based on a mid-2004 survey. Another national survey released in 2008 reported that cohabiting Frenchwomen over 50 are having more sex now than they did in the early 1990s.

With all due respect for French women who have much to do with their sexual success as older women, men are part of the reason. Even the national health care system is involved, paying for new mothers to attend ‘vaginal and pelvic floor rehabilitation’ that’s paid for by the French government.

Marital sex is important, and a French woman’s sexuality is a matter of national interest. Can you imagine such an effort in America?

Simply stated, in America women surveyed by Dove said they are at their best selves ay 28. In France, the women answer 35 and 45, in equal numbers. Almost no woman answers 28.

It’s easy to chastise American women for low libidos, but unless I’m missing something about our culture, we do ‘want ‘em young’ in America.

Luckily for me, I spent years of my life in France and Italy and never really dealt with the challenges of being washed up at 28. Viva la France! Anne