Jane Seymour is having 'more passionate' sex at age 72

Life in the bedroom has never been better for a 72-year-old Jane Seymour and her friend, John Zambetti.

“Sex right now is more beautiful and passionate than anything I ever remember because it is built on trust, love and experience,” Seymour, 72, wrote in an essay for Cosmopolitan The “Sex After 60” issue published on Wednesday, January 17. “I know myself and my body now, and John has had his own experiences in his life – it's not like when you're younger.”

She continued, “The older I get, the more sex is based on emotional intimacy, on having shared the ups and downs of life with someone – our feelings, our joys, our sorrows, our mutual passions and desires.”

Seymour also shared how she's learned over the years that “intimacy can be selfish too,” noting that “loving touch” doesn't have to stop just because you reach a certain age.

“Your sex life doesn't have to end at 60,” she continued. “At the end of the day, everyone is looking for something that brings blood to a certain area. If you can figure that out, you will be a happy camper.”

Seymour pointed out the “added bonus” of not having to worry about a possible unplanned pregnancy in her golden years and said she still sometimes feels 16 when it comes to being intimate with her partner. “I really feel like sex and intimacy at my age are better than ever before,” she said. “I actually mean that. And after being single after marriage, I discovered that I don't have to disappear to make sex and romance work.”

When it comes to having a successful relationship, Seymour admitted that it took her almost “five decades of being in a relationship” to realize that it shouldn't always be about “the career, the blended family, the marriage.” Instead, she had to learn how to focus on romance and her own needs.

Seymour has been married four times. She shares twins Kristopher and John, 27, with her fourth husband, James Keachto whom she was married from 1993 to 2015. She is also mom to daughters Jennifer, 43, and Katherine, 41, and son Sean, 38, whom she shares with her third husband, David Flynn. The couple were together for eleven years before calling it quits in 1992. Seymour was also previously married to Michael Attenborough from 1971 to 1973 and Geoffrey Planer from 1977 to 1978.

Seymour and Zambetti, 73, went Instagram official with their relationship in October 2023. Later that month the Dr. Quinn, medicine woman star revealed it was theirs
children who set them up. “So we certainly don't have to worry about the kids not approving who we were with,” Zambetti joked. People at the time. “I'm very lucky to be with her.”

In November 2023, Seymour opened up about her “uniquely special” romance with the musician. “He is sweet and obviously very intelligent, but also very supportive. Everyone I know loves him. They all love him,” she told the newspaper Daily email. “We just decided that whatever it is, it doesn't need to be qualified or quantified. We don't have to give it a name. We both really appreciate what it's for now.

Seymour's latest thoughts on intimacy aren't the first time she's opened up about sexuality in her golden years. She posed for Playboy in 2018 at the age of 67, telling the newspaper she feels “so much sexier” than she ever did when she was younger.

“There is tremendous freedom in having lived as long as I have,” she said at the time. “As my father always said: I feel good about myself. I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone. When you're younger, it's all about “look at me.” I try not to let anyone look at me.”