Sincerely I’ve never have much success with women in general, my ex GF was who initiated it.
She was a close friend and “one of the boys”, so I don’t feel she can represent the average mature woman.
I can assure that she was the totally opposite of dry.
No so long ago I was with an older one, but since I’m older the age gap was 19. Sincerely I don’t know how managed it, met her at a wedding. She wasn’t dry either.