Still Sexy After All These Years?: The 9 Unspoken Truths About Women's Desire Beyond 50 [Paperback]

Leah Kliger (Author), Deborah Nedelman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 7, 2006

This surprising volume contains straight talk from real women from ages 50 to 95, revealing for the first time the secrets of what they want (and don't want) regarding sex-and how they get it.

Health educator Leah Kliger and sex therapist Deborah Nedelman traveled across the country talking with women from all walks of life to find out:

- What really happens to women's sexual desire after 50
- How older women keepthe lust alive
- Where desire goes when it ebbs
- How older women overcome their body image struggle
- How couples can remain physically intimate even in the face of illness or injury
- What older women want their friends, their doctors, their lovers, and even their kids to know about their sexuality

For the first time, women over 50 reveal their true thoughts, desires, fears, and questions about sex and sexual self-esteem. Lively, reassuring, and illuminating, this book is a compassionate roadmap for women who are faced with the mysteries of aging and sexuality.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Kliger, a health care educator, and Nedelman, a clinical psychologist, believe women shouldn't be "pigeonholed" by old wives' tales that tell us desire dies on your 50th birthday. But instead of bolstering that idea, their book consists of a grating overdose of stories about real women, many of which serve to validate the opposite truth. The fact that the title ends with a question mark is telling; the book is confusing and disjointed, the "truths" are often obvious ("sexy is different after 50"; "less can be more after 50"), and the anecdotes meld into a long string of irrelevant stories. Many are like the following ambivalent dispatch from Tisha, "a vibrant, well-educated Latina professional in her late 50s." After getting divorced, Tisha thought she lacked "any desire, any libido, or that I was desirable to anybody else... [but] that feeling... goes up and down." A chapter on overcoming the physical problems of aging as they relate to sex, and a look at women who didn't consider having same-sex relationships until after age 50 are interesting, but this eye-opening information isn't enough to save a book that hopelessly flounders to find its point, without a solution or even an enlightening conclusion.
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Review

... a strong contribution-nearly all women will...find valuable support. Including plentiful referrals to resources...this title is for all collections. -- Library Journal

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (February 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039953217x
• ISBN-13: 978-0399532177
• ASIN: 039953217X
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,504,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Normal" is all over the map!, March 17, 2006

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This review is from: Still Sexy After All These Years?: The 9 Unspoken Truths About Women's Desire Beyond 50 (Paperback)

Well researched, yet written in an easy style, Still Sexy After All These Years? infuses humor into a serious look at the desires of women beyond 50. The authors present a vast spectrum of attitudes and approaches from women with and without partners. Whether you've bade 'good riddance' to sex, find yourself wanting it more, need creative solutions for health issues, relationship issues or lifestyle changes, you'll find you're not alone and you can benefit from the authors' practical suggestions and listed resources.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still sexy After All These Years?, March 17, 2006

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This review is from: Still Sexy After All These Years?: The 9 Unspoken Truths About Women's Desire Beyond 50 (Paperback)

It has been a long time since any book I've read, has triggered so many deep thoughts in my mind, as has this book. Men over fifty as wll as women cope with similar problems of aging. Coping with the loss of a life partner, the loss of intimate closeness. and an aging body are just a few of many problems shared by men and women.
I found the book to be well researched, well written and at times humerous.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm Not Alone, February 22, 2006

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Melanie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Still Sexy After All These Years?: The 9 Unspoken Truths About Women's Desire Beyond 50 (Paperback)

This respectful book deals with the changes in women's sexuality in a manner that is both frank and hopeful. The warmth and humor in it are based on an easy and accepting view of what can be a confusing and uncharted time. It encourages inter-generational conversations, with the idea of legitimizing the wide variety of what is normal.