Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex

by Joan Price

Overview

An inviting and informative guide to sex for seniors, with a clear message that "as far as sex in the senior years goes . . . the best is yet to come" (Dr. Dean Edell)

Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: later-life sexuality.

In Naked at Our Age, she offers a candid, straight-talking exploration of senior sexuality -- the challenges, the disappointments, and the surprises, as well as the delights of love and passion. She shares the stories of women and men -- coupled and single, straight and gay -- demonstrating how their sex lives and relationships have changed with age, and how their sex lives influence their lives and self-esteem. Along the way, she offers wise advice from sex therapists, health professionals, counselors, sex educators, and other knowledgeable experts, helping seniors to embrace intimacy in all its forms.

Entertaining and indispensable, Naked at Our Age is a complete guide to enjoying senior sex, love, passion, and couplehood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580054003
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	05/24/2011
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	279,753
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Author and speaker Joan Price calls herself an "advocate for ageless sexuality." She has been called other things by the media: "senior sexpert, "the beautiful face of senior sex," and -- her favorite -- "wrinkly sex kitten." At age sixty-one, Price wrote Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty (Seal Press, 2006) to celebrate the delights of older-life sexuality -- especially her spicy love affair with artist Robert Rice, who became her husband. Later, after questions and comments from hundreds of readers about their own senior sex lives, she is following up with Naked at Our Age.

Formerly a high school English teacher, Price is also a fitness professional who believes that exercise should be a treat, not a treatment. She has written several books about health and fitness, including The Anytime, Anywhere Exercise Book: 300+ Quick and Easy Exercises You Can Do Whenever You Want. Price teaches popular contemporary line dancing classes (which she calls "the most fun you can have with both feet on the floor") in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa, California.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1

Introduction 5

1 The Old Ways Don't Do It Anymore! 9

2 Reviving Desire 27

3 Sex Toys: Now More Than Ever 49

4 Together yet Alone: Is This My Marriage? 63

5 Talking about Sex 79

6 Off the Beaten Path: Nontraditional Sex Practices and Relationships 97

7 Surviving Divorce, Breakup, Betrayal 123

8 Sex with Myself 137

9 Unlearning Our Upbringing: Women's Stories 149

10 Unlearning Our Upbringing: Men's Stories 161

11 When Sex Hurts: Vulvar/Vaginal Pain 173

12 Reclaiming Sexuality after Cancer 197

13 Erectile Dysfunction: What Men Don't Say Out Loud 219

14 Erectile Dysfunction: Women Speak Out 243

15 No Way Back: When Your Partner Has Alzheimer's Disease 259

16 Death, Grieving … and Then What? 273

17 Sensuality for Hire 291

18 DWO: Dating While Old(er) 305

19 Safer Sex-Yes, at Our Age 325

20 Better Now Than Ever: The Joys of Older-Age Sex 345

Meet Our Experts 363

Acknowledgments 371

About the Author 373

Notes 375

Index 377

Editorial Reviews

Price (The Anytime, Anywhere Exercise Book), a former English teacher turned fitness trainer and sex guru, suggests that seniors get with the younger set and rid themselves of their sexual inhibitions. Her advice ranges from dating tips (when creating an online profile "think of yourself as the interviewer, not the interviewee") to sex pointers (vaginal pain can be alleviated with silicone lubricants). She's an enthusiastic proponent of the use of vibrators to intensify a woman's pleasure, advocates sadomasochistic sex as long as limits are maintained, and even gives advice on how to find male escort services. While the book purports to be aimed at readers of both genders, its advice is somewhat tilted to a female audience. There is some general counsel for men on subjects like erectile dysfunction. Price runs a website of the same name, and each chapter reads like a topical collection of blog posts, with individuals relaying personal anecdotes and "experts" weighing in with advice. Overall, it's a book that will definitely appeal to a select audience. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"Hang on, because Naked at Our Age breaks all the barriers and goes where ordinary books on this subject dare not. Some readers may be shocked . . . and others delighted by this bold . . . and uncensored approach. The message is clear: As far as sex in the senior years goes . . . the best is yet to come.
—Dr. Dean Edell, M.D., Emmy-award-winning host of the Dr. Dean Edell Program and author of the best-selling book Eat, Drink and Be Merry


"Told through the voices of real people interspersed with great advice from smart professionals, Naked at Our Age is an important resource for anyone who wants to keep pleasure and sensuality in their lives . . ."
—Candida Royalle, pioneer of woman-friendly erotica and author of How to Tell a Naked Man What to Do


"[W]ith irresistible enthusiasm, Joan Price tackles outdated expectations and promotes ... new ways to celebrate sexuality throughout the later years.
—Peggy Brick, president of the Sexuality and Aging Consortium at Widener University and co-author of Older, Wiser, Sexually Smarter: 30 Sex Ed Lessons for Adults Only


"[T]he impact of the book is as much inspirational as it is educational."
—Pepper Schwartz, PhD, author of Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years

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