Published on June 16, 2024 at 9:17 p.m. / Modified on June 16, 2024 at 9:18 p.m.
Shared pleasures
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Many media representations make menopausal women a repulsive figure. Articles in the women’s press list all sorts of ills about it, such as low libido or “vaginal dryness.” An expression which, along with that of “hot flashes”, often comes up when we talk about this period of life marked by the cessation of the menstrual cycle. But what plural realities are hidden behind these symptoms and how is sexuality recomposed at this time?
Julia Litzén, a 52-year-old from Lausanne of Swedish origin, has just created the podcast Fucking Fifties to make these questions visible in Switzerland. She herself was confronted with certain bodily and psychological manifestations of perimenopause, the period preceding menopause. “I found myself with joint pain, insomnia and a sort of mental fog combined with an increase in my anxiety. I had a diffuse feeling of deterioration in my quality of life, to which I could not make sense. I understood that menopause does not come in one day and that it is a process that takes time,” she describes.
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