As a woman you have to be a virgin until marriage, but in your 50s, when your marriage is sagging, you get to be a femme fatale. You get to break as many twenty-year-olds hearts over your metaphorical knees as you want, really make them feel that precious experience. Circle closed. Good deal for all involved.

I’ve never heard this as I don’t live in the 19th century.

She was the best lover before getting married…

Following the “logic” of the statement, that would be anyone or anything except unmarried women, and therefore would include options like

• sawmills
• the secret drawer in an old dressoir
• a powder keg on a pirate ship
• Elon Musk

Other men?

Don’t ask a Republican, you won’t like the answer

My ex.