 Love is sex and intimacy are fundamental. They don't just stop when you reach 60. Online dating isn't just for young people, older adults are doing it too. In the early days they were doing it in very limited quantities, but just recently there's been a surge in popularity and older adults now make up 22% of Australia's leading dating website. That's quite a lot and it just goes to show the popularity of online dating for older adults. One study that came out just recently looked at 25,000 couples. Of 60 plus year olds they found 37% had found their partner online. That's quite a lot. Compared to the younger people in the 20 to 29 age group only 19% had found their partners online. So that doesn't mean that the success rate for younger people is less, it just means that they have more avenues to find their partners probably. So for older adults going online gives them opportunities that they might not get in their day to day life. A lot of the older adults I spoke to said they went online because they're not comfortable with the pub and club scene. The social rules have always been that the man does the chasing and the woman waits for his attention. Online I don't think that's the case. Certainly for the older people that I spoke to it was quite normal for an older woman to approach a man. Going online provides older people the avenue to be socially connected, to meet new people, to be mentally stimulated, to be physically stimulated if that's what they want.