Media personality Hattie Retroage is a sex/dating coach and soon-to-be author who is currently penning a book about her dating history that she has dubbed the Cougar Chronicles.
While clearly a free spirit, Hattie was previously married for over 25 years and is a proud mother to two children and grandmother to three.
Despite what Hattie described as a “wonderful sex life” during her marriage, she made the decision to divorce her husband in 1984 and put an advertisement in the local newspaper looking for younger men to sleep with. However, she soon realised that casual sex was not the only thing that she was looking for.
“The emotional side was bad. I would cry. I was carrying on like that for decades – and I would get depression. I screw, I sleep with, I make love with many men, and not one of them has said, ‘I want you for my life.’”
After many years of heartbreak, Hattie began to look inward and made the decision to mentally process the nature of her sexual encounters with a different frame of mind.
“I came up with a psychological surgical procedure and it’s called ‘a heart-ectomy’. And what you do is, you cut the connection between your heart and your p***y,” said Hattie.
“That was great and it pretty much worked for me. I’m not agonising. I’m grateful that at this age and [at] this stage that I have as many lovers as I want.”
Although a native New Yorker, Hattie’s foray into mainstream media began in the UK where she appeared on a reality TV program called Age Gap Love in 2018. It was on this program where Hattie met her most current ex-boyfriend, John.
Not one to dwell on the past, Hattie has swiftly acted on the recommendations of friends and turned to dating app Bumble, in the hopes of meeting new men. She also insists that she has no plans to give in to the expectations of others and start looking for someone “her own age”.
“Younger men, they ‘get off’ from getting a woman off, and that’s a lot different from when I was younger.”
Hattie has revealed that she is often referred to as a “cougar” by some members of the public, but she is quick to point out that she is never on “the prowl” because men are the ones who always approach her.
She also hopes that she can play a role in reversing the negative connotations of sexual promiscuity amongst older women and empower them to embrace their own sexuality as they age.
“My life goal is to change the awful, decrepit view of ageing – view, and experience, and turn it into something exciting. A life-loving adventure.”
Hattie added, “The depth of life, you can’t avoid it. But the shallowness of good sex, that’s what is good enough for me.”
I will like to make a friendship with old woman. N