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

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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.

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.

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.

Men who want to develop or maintain a loving relationship with women over 50 will find this book essential reading. A major strength of the book are the quotations from women who were either interviewed or who participated in group discussions. The quotations have the same poignancy as those in the play, "The Vagina Monologues." Like the play, this book has some feminist perspectives that are annoying but they do not detract from the helpfulness of the book overall. The book also has some great jokes!

Chapter 3 has one of the great jokes but overall it is a downer. The rest of the book is quite up beat so I recommend skipping Chapter 3 until you have read some of the other chapters. Men should not skip Chapter 6 on lesbian relationships since it contains very wise quotations that apply equally to heterosexual relationships.

Of the 400 diverse women who responded to the authors' non-random survey, 57% said they were either passionate or satisfied with their partner as a lover. Only 10% said they were either uninterested or resentful toward their partner. 22% said they currently did not have a partner and 11% did not answer the question. That is very encouraging news. The book provides lots of useful suggestions on how men can help their lovers stay in the passionate or satisfied category.

This book has changed so many of the assumptions I grew up with. I feel like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Plus this is a "fun read" all the while telling the real truth from real women's stories and lives. I think the authors have shown how much they care about the lives of women everywhere by doing the actual research to write this great book. Thanks from all of us!!!

I found this book to be well written, informative, and delightful to read. The stories and comments from so many diverse women made this book one for all women to incorporate into their home library and share with friends.

Still Sexy opens the doors to the range of possiblities for sex and aging. It's a down-to-earth book, easy to read, useful and well researched.

This was a very good read for the type of book that it is...there are many women out there who would enjoy it...it is very informative and true to form...not all about sex but rather about women after 50 in general...it is good to know what other women yhink about the second half of their lives....thank you.

I highly recommend this book for women approaching 50 and those of us beyond 50 as it is extremely enlightening, well-written with very helpful info as well as humor.
Wish this information had been available years ago! I plan to give this book as a
gift to all my friends!!

This is a good book for women over 50, nice to know that we older gals are still sexy.
I am enjoying reading this book and would recommend it for a good read.