Sex and Love at Midlife


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Is it really better than ever? Now that the children have grown and you have plenty of time on your hands, do you find that the love and intimacy is still as strong as ever or has it gone from your life? Fact: As we mature, our sexual drives mature as well. Fact: We may slow down and lovemaking may be different, but that doesn't mean that the quality has to be lower or the pleasure less. In this honest, down-to-earth volume, Dr. Zilbergeld, a world renowned sex therapist and bestselling author draws on his many years of clinical experience to explain why we should be enjoying our love making and intimacy even more as we mature. Replete with stories and anecdotes that present a variety of tools and techniques to help us all develop the kind of openness we desire, he honestly tells us why age is no barrier to a better and more rewarding sex life. Don't just complain about your love life, get started today to make it better than ever




Better Than Ever


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Better Than Ever is a new kind of book about love and sex. Targeted particularly at people in their later years, it looks at the pleasure that can still be gained from healthy sexual relationships whether all the appropriate bits are working or not! In Better Than Ever Dr Zilbergeld explains the wondrous world of love and sex among men and women in their later years. A world-renowned sex therapist for 27 years, Dr Zilbergeld uses intensive research, and the words of people he calls the lovers, to illustrate and explain the world of men and women who are masters of the world of sexuality. Dr Zilbergeld also explains the obstacles that prevent people with medical or psychological problems from entering the world of love and sex, and provides solutions that will give them hope that they, too, can become lovers in their own relationships.




Better Than Ever


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Is it better than ever? Now that the children have grown and there's more time on your hands as a couple, are you finding that the love and intimacy has gone from your life? It is a fact that as we mature, our sexual drives mature as well, but it is also a fact that while you may slow down and your lovemaking may be different than it was in your youth, that doesn't mean that the quality has to be lower or your pleasure less. In this honest, yet light-hearted volume, replete with delightful stories and anecdotes that present a variety of tools and techniques to help us all develop the kind of openness we desire, Bernie Zilbergeld, well-known sex therapist and author of the widely quoted, "The New Male Sexuality," draws on his many years of clinical and life experience. He explains why we should be enjoying our lovemaking and our intimacy even more than ever and certainly better than ever. Although it's true you are probably going to get to know your doctor much better as you grow older, and probably your pharmacist as well, Dr. Zilbergeld shows how all of us can choose whether we are either going to be "Lovers" in our life or "Non-Lovers." Meticulously researched, based on 145 interviews with men and women ages 45 to 87, Dr. Zilbergeld presents evidence that a good number of men and women are having great sex in both their long- and short-term relationships. He shows you how you can learn from the "Lovers" who are the relationship experts among us. Read this book and you will go away knowing that your love life and your intimate relationships can be just as strong today as 10, 20, or even 30 years ago. You will learn about: -The myths and realities about sex and aging -Normal physical changes in men and women -Lovers and Non-Lovers --where do you fit in? -Problem-solving and what's health got to do with it? -Medications and their uses -How to talk sexy--at any age Don't just complain about your love life, get started today to make it better than ever!




Love and Trouble


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Blazingly intelligent, wickedly funny, and piercingly honest, a memoir that captures the perils and pleasures of girlhood, womanhood, and life itself. “One of my favorite books of the last few years.” —Cheryl Strayed “Sentence for sentence, a more pleasure-yielding midlife memoir is hard to think of.” —The Atlantic At mid-life, Claire Dederer developed a sudden yearning for jailbreak. In this exuberant memoir, she reflects on two periods in her life uncannily similar in their emotional intensity: her present experience as a middle-aged mom in the grip of unruly and mysterious new hungers, and her recollections of herself as a teenager.







150 Most-asked Questions about Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy


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Presents current findings in endocrinology, urology, psychology, and alternative medicine as they relate to questions of intimacy in women experiencing or approaching menopause




Over the Hill and Between the Sheets


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Every Baby Boomer has to confront it at some point: his or her changing mid-life sex life. Now, Belsky provides an unfailingly honest anthology that is incredibly varied, wickedly funny, shockingly explicit, and surprisingly sweet about life in the bedroom after 40.




Love Sex and the Midlife Woman


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Your Guide to Empowering Intimate Relationships Unexpected Consequences? The social and economic position of women in western society has improved in the last 50 years. But are there unexpected consequences? Many women find themselves without satisfactory love and intimate relationships, especially in the second half of their lives. Have changing roles taken on by women caused them to bury their femininity? Are we failing to understand the crucial powers of Love, Sex and Gender and how they combine to create the delicate balance of our love lives? When we understand these powerful forces better can we adjust our attitudes and behaviour to achieve more happiness and fulfilment for ourselves and our partners? Is it possible for women to take leadership of our society and improve it by working together and creating more harmony between women and men? In this book Jean Macdonald explores all these possibilities. However, this is as much a 'How-to' as a 'Why-to' book. It contains many links in it to get more information, cross-check advice and access skills. Its intention is to help you change your outcomes to get more Love, Sex and Happiness in your life!




Why We Can't Sleep


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The acclaimed author explores the hidden crises of Gen X women in this “engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage [and] pop culture analysis” (The New Republic). Ada Calhoun was married with children and a good career—and yet she was miserable. She thought she had no right to complain until she realized how many other Generation X women felt the same way. What could be behind this troubling trend? To find out, Calhoun delved into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw that Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age—problems that were being largely overlooked. Calhoun spoke with women across America who were part of the generation raised to “have it all.” She found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. And instead of being heard, they were being told to lean in, take “me-time,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament. She offers practical advice on how to ourselves out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.




Sexually Woke


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What if it were possible to have the best sex of your life at 40, or even 70? With over twenty years of experience as a highly regarded physician and founder of the largest all-female-staffed OB/GYN practice in the nation, Dr. Susan Hartwick-Smith, also known as Dr. Susan, presents Sexually Woke, a surprisingly frank and thought-provoking look at midlife sexuality. This optimistic new perspective is based not only on wisdom gained from sharing intimate stories with thousands of patients, but also on her own very candid journey as a menopausal woman navigating life post-divorce. Through a unique and comprehensive research study and subsequent interviews, Dr. Susan outlines the misconception and conditioning around our attitudes to mature sex and shares the intimate secrets of a cohort of women who have discovered the path to a vibrant, deeply connected and intimated sex life after 40. These women are the mysterious "Sexually Woke", and their surprising secrets are now available to all of us. Through her own story, as well as the raw and uncensored interviews with study participants that include the "Sexually Woke", Dr. Susan re-frames the second half of life as an open field of possibility in which to play, explore, and finally be your true self. While openly discussing our tremendous struggles-with kids, aging parents, changing careers, divorce, death, abuse, sexual trauma, and personal illness-she teaches us that the wisdom of midlife allows us to look inward in order to recognize the importance of sex in making our lives whole. A reawakened sex life, an essential step towards living life to its fullest, is no longer the secret knowledge of a few outliers. The path to deep sexual connection and satisfaction in midlife and beyond is available to anyone who is ready to commit and willing to embark on the journey with Dr. Susan and Sexually Woke.