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THE BODY SHOP - A SNAPSHOT OF SOCIAL RESEARCH

IN MY LIFE AGEING MEANS TO ME ....SOME CONTRIBUTORS QUOTES

          "I am becoming a woman"
         FEMALE 13
       
"Arrives too early"
     FEMALE 73
"Feeling more confident in myself,
proud to be who I am, strong
and accepting of the way I look" 
FEMALE 53
"Body getting older, mind and spirit gettting younger
FEMALE 89
 

"An excuse to say I am eccentric rather than immature"
FEMALE 16
"My back goes our more than I do"
FEMALE 53
"Growing into my face and body and losing
the horrible self consciousness of your teens and early twenties"
FEMALE 40
     
"Sense of self"
FEMALE 59
"Great sex, I know so much!" 
MALE 64
"Being aware of who you are and how important you are"
FEMALE 40
 

"More mistakes, more learning"
FEMALE 24
"Dying"
FEMALE 74
"Beats the alternative.
Live Life - keep on smiling"
FEMALE 40

"You've got to be tough to be old"
FEMALE 70
"Being loved by more people, getting wiser, getting rid of my periods, living life to the fullest so I don't die as an unimportant person" 
FEMALE 15
"Less sex"
MALE 74
 

"Meeting experienced people"
MALE 92
"Age is a product of advertising. Forget it and just get on with it"
FEMALE 28
"Freedom and better orgasms"
FEMALE 52

"Not being as mobile"
FEMALE 85
"The preciousness of life" 
MALE 42
Themes of the Research
Experience Shows....
Points of Interest

Research Results by Age

0 - 16
Sixteen to Twenty
Twenty-one to Thirty
Thirty-one to Forty
Forty-one to Fifty
Fifty-one to Sixty
Sixty-one to Seventy
Seventy-one to Eighty
Eighty-one to Ninety
Ninety Plus
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