You can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but can you teach an old dog to turn tricks?
You sure can — at least in the case of Norm Self. The 83-year-old just starred in his first gay porn film.
“It was splendid!” Self tells the Huffington Post. “How could it not be? [I was in] a blessed rural setting, surrounded by a cast and crew of loving, competent, supportive brothers intent on sharing the good news of the healing power of pleasure.”
In the video, Self, a “sacred intimate” — or, a teacher who helps all individuals explore the healing power of pleasure — appears alongside two younger porn actors, and is shown masturbating.
In a video posted to YouTube, he recounts his first time masturbating at age 12.
“I remember that when I masturbated . . . it was, like, the doors of heaven opened up,” he says. “And then all of a sudden, wham! The gates of hell opened up.”
He maintains his sex life at age 83 is the best it’s ever been and takes issue with the general perception that seniors don’t get freaky.
“I think it’s sad and destructive that our society has an image of elder human beings as ‘sexless,’ ” he tells HuffPo. “I have been a facilitator with at least three women and a great many more men in the recovery/restoration of their erotic/sexual response and their joyful delight at the discovery that ‘it ain’t over until I say it is!’ ”