The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women

What do older women really think about love, intimacy... and everything in between?This isn't a book about sex in the way you might expect. It's about what happens after the fairy tales - when women begin to reflect, to question, and to rediscover what intimacy, love, and connection really mean.'This book takes on one of the last great cultural silences: women, desire, and intimacy after midlife. Frank, compassionate, and often wryly funny, it explores how love, sex, and identity evolve in later life-told through the voices of older women and anchored in the writer's long professional experience in women's health.Through candid conversations, lived experience, and a lifetime working in women's health, Judy Higgs lifts the curtain on a generation of women who were never meant to speak openly about desire, intimacy, or emotional truth - and yet, quietly, they always have.These are stories of love rediscovered, relationships redefined, and the surprising ways intimacy evolves with age. Wise, witty, and deeply human, this book will make you laugh, nod in recognition... and perhaps see your own story a little differently.Because growing older doesn't mean growing silent.Discover: Do Older Women Care That Much About a Limp Penis? / Faking It: The Great Female Courtesy / "Female Sexual Dysfunction" and the Problem with Labels / Sex Education for the Beatles Generation / Hormones: The Drama Queens of Desire / Orgasm Inequality / The Cultural Double Standard: Men Age, Women Disappear / The Role of Frequency: Can it Improve Satisfaction? / Love Needs Closeness-Desire Needs Space / The Secret Art of Loving an Older Woman / When Desire Isn't Dead-Just Bored / Love, Lust... and the Lies We Tell Ourselves / Why Affairs Feel Like Magic / The Monogamy Problem Nobody Wants to Admit / If Porn Is Education, We're All in Trouble.