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‘Where’s Viagra for women?’ Amanda Muggleton gets candid on post-60s sex

Mar 16, 2018

Amanda Muggleton has spoken candidly aout sex. Source: Getty.

Amanda Muggleton has slammed the lack of sex stimulants like Viagra for post-menopausal women, insisting men have it easy, while their female partners are expected to keep up with their medically-induced sex drives.

The award-winning theatre star has enjoyed more than 40 years in the limelight, with leading roles in everything from ’70s hit Prisoner to a return role in Masterclass now – more than 18 years after first playing tragic opera star Maria Callas. And while she’s super busy and happily single, the 67-year-old has some candid opinions about love and sex that she was happy to share with Starts at 60.

While there have been moves to introduce a range of new pills and medication to help increase a woman’s sex drive, with one, Flibanserin, being dubbed the ‘female Viagra’, none have reached the popularity and success of men’s Viagra. And that’s not fair, Amanda says.

Amanda looks amazing as she returns to the stage for *Masterclass*. Source: Getty.

“They’re trying to bring out things to help women [and] it’s about bloody time,” she said. “What’s the good if you’ve got some bloke who can’t get enough of it, and the woman’s not interested? They’ll go somewhere else. Men are so busy getting their own willies ready, they’ve forgotten they need to stimulate their partner too!

“They’re taking Viagra because they can’t get it up, and it’s the same for women who think they’ve lost their sex drive. They’ve sorted themselves out, and all sorts of other things like contraptions that pump up their d***s, but what’s the use – unless they go for younger women, which is totally their loss.”

Instead, Amanda insists there’s no age limit to enjoying sex, and as long as you keep yourself active. “I think you’re as young as you feel. I never stop moving my body, I’ve never had a desk job, and always exercising,” she explains. “If you don’t use it you lose it, and sex is the same.”

While the musical star has prioritised her career over her love life in the past, she hasn’t ruled out enjoying a loving relationship in the future – but it comes with some catches!

“I don’t know if I could live with another man,” she explained. “I’d like him to have his own house or flat, and we meet up when we agree to. If I want my safe haven and my nest, then I can come here and do and be what I want, without asking permission.”

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Shunning a more traditional marriage or family structure, she has joined celebrities such as Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton, who preferred to keep some distance in their former marriage by having separate bedrooms (and, latterly, separate houses). Aside from getting some alone time and a bed to yourself, Amanda insists it can be “sexier” to only sleep together on the odd night.

“I had one man, and I remember we were making a new home together, and I suggested we had separate bedrooms – you would have thought I was saying ‘I want to cut off your willy’.

“In the end I left him because it’s ridiculous. I think it’s so much easier to sleep alone and have nights when you go to his room or he comes to yours. You have somewhere to sleep without someone snoring or trying to get their leg over, or just wriggling. Sleep is one of the most important things in all our lives. I know a lot of women snore, but men are renowned for snoring more. I used to wake this bloke up, and he’d get furious with me.”

Amanda reprises her award-winning role as Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s Masterclass, coming to the Sydney Opera House this month.