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She was an evangelist for older women who had sex with younger men, and the health benefits she believed came with that.
By Penélope Green
Hattie Wiener, an exuberant, libertine former dancer and therapist who discovered some stardom in her 70s by sleeping with younger men and selling what she said were the anti-aging benefits of her lifestyle, died June 21 at her Manhattan home. He was 88 years old.
He was diagnosed with diastolic failure and decided to end his life by refusing to eat and drink, said his daughter, Rama Dunayevich.
The tabloids called her Tinder’s grandmother and the world’s oldest cougar, titles she is proud to claim. Ms. Wiener had long been an evangelist for older women to have sex with younger men (a practice she began when she divorced in 1984, when she was 48) and for the fitness benefits she felt were bestowed on those who followed her. bedtime regimen, activities she promoted in a self-published book, “Sex and the Single Senior” (2009).
But it wasn’t until she appeared in “Strange Sex,” a 2010 TLC docuseries, that she began to enjoy a kind of B-movie fame, appearing as a mischievous and reliable guest on TV shows like “Access Hollywood. ” and “Dr. Phil.
“I learned that by sleeping with young men,” she said on “Strange Sex,” “I started my life all over again, because my spouse was a young guy and we had glorious sex and now I repeat the pattern, but not with my spouse or anyone his age.
In this series, TLC filmed his date with an affable electrician and single father of three named Ron, 40 years his junior. Wiener dressed in typical style, with a studded dog collar, a black minidress and a gold bolero; Ron looked like he was dressed for a barbecue. But he went on a great date and noted that he liked older women because of their self-confidence and because, as he said, “they don’t look for happily ever after. “
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