It sounds like you're more attractive now than you were in your 20s. I know a lot of women who are like that. As for guys hitting on you, that's life as an attractive woman.
A lot of married women are receptive to such attention.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.