The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women - Paperback

by Judy Higgs (Author)

There are nearly 400 million women over the age of 65 in the world - and almost no one is talking about their intimate lives. The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women is here to break the silence.

For too long, older women have been rendered invisible. Politely dismissed. Expected to fade quietly into the background of other people's stories to bake casseroles or knit sweaters for distressed penguins.

This is a book about intimacy in its many forms - about tenderness and courage, about longing and rediscovery, about the quiet ache of wanting to be seen and the profound joy of being cherished.

The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women offers a rare and intimate portrait of real women who have lived full lives. Through anonymous interviews shared with remarkable openness, women speak with honesty, humour, vulnerability and grace. They reflect on love found and lost, bodies changed and reclaimed, and the enduring truth that desire does not disappear - it evolves.

EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES FROM REAL WOMEN

With never before told stories from real women.

Women who have lived full, complex lives-through marriage and divorce, widowhood and new love, illness, abstinence, affairs, and rediscovery. Some spent years without sex; others became more adventurous once long relationships ended. Some had affairs. What unites them is not recklessness, but honesty-and a quietly radical acceptance of their own sexuality.