Better Than I Ever Expected Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty

by Price, Joan

• ISBN13: 9781580051521
• ISBN10: 1580051529
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-13
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

Better Than I Ever Expected is a warm, witty, and honest book that contends with the challenges and celebrates the delights of older-life sexuality. It asserts that women over sixty are at the top of their game when it comes to enjoying sex. Joan Price’s woman-to-woman straight talk transcends the self-help style of other books in this field. Yes, there are challenges to sex after menopause and beyond, says Price, but there are also creative solutions. She is on a mission to let women her age and older know that they can, in fact, have the best sex of their lives.

Price gets personal and stays positive, combining her own story with candid comments, tips, and sassy tales from sexually seasoned women. She acknowledges the gritty issues that older women confront in their sexual lives, noting that it’s not easy, but it certainly isn’t over. At age 61, Price is newly engaged to the man she’s been looking for her whole life. Her discovery of how great "well-seasoned” sex can be was the inspiration for this book. Sidebars present candid and friendly sex tips; fitness, exercise, and lifestyle information; and women's erotic vignettes (both real-life experiences and fantasies).

Author Biography

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

Introduction	vi
CHAPTER 1 Tale of a Book: How This Book Came to Be	1	(16)
CHAPTER 2 Sex in the Golden Age	17	(18)
CHAPTER 3 My Sex Education	35	(15)
CHAPTER 4 The Bodies We Live In	50	(18)
CHAPTER 5 It Ain't Easy after Menopause	68	(15)
CHAPTER 6 Fitness and Exercise: Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Sex Lives	83	(15)
CHAPTER 7 Public Sex Acts and Private Preparations	98	(13)
CHAPTER 8 Beds Afire: Stoking the Slower-Burning Flame	111	(16)
CHAPTER 9 Plug In, Turn On: The Quick Version of Everything You Need to Know about Sex Toys	127	(16)
CHAPTER 10 Staying Sexy without a Partner	143	(15)
CHAPTER 11 Hunting Ground: In the Dating Game Again (or Still)	158	(18)
CHAPTER 12 Done It All—Ready to Nest	176	(17)
CHAPTER 13 Late Bloomers—Ready to Fly	193	(12)
CHAPTER 14 Sparking the Familiar Fire: How to Spice Up a Long-Term Relationship	205	(16)
CHAPTER 15 When You or Your Partner Can't	221	(15)
APPENDIX A When and How a Physician or Therapist Can Help	236	(6)
APPENDIX B Resources	242	(17)
APPENDIX C Interview Questions for Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex after Sixty	259	(4)
Notes	263