THE COURIER JOURNAL — Dec — Joan Hardin, a 60-ish widow confesses, "I'm not interested in the sex. I'd rather have more companionship." About a fifth of visitors to the online dating site Yahoo Personals, for example, are over 50. More than 40 million Americans over 40 are single — divorced, widowed or never married. One research paper, "Dating in Later Life," explores the courtship experiences of women over 60 (by Kandi L. Walker, Fran C. Dickson and Patrick Hughes).
