Sex After Grief
Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“A profoundly compassionate, deeply personal, and exceptionally practical guidebook for moving forward after loss with both purpose and joy.” —Lynn Comella, PhD, author of Vibrator Nation
Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Writing Award in Service/Self-Help
Sex after Grief is the first book to address sex and grief together and treat sex as a normal, positive, life-affirming part of emerging from such a difficult time. Joan Price, the top expert on senior sex, draws on her own experiences as a widow since 2008, when she lost the love of her life to cancer. She shares her raw grief journey, sexual reawakening (and the many stumbles along the way), and attempts to dip back into dating, along with excellent advice on handling each step.
As Price says, there’s no right or wrong method or timeline for bringing our sexuality back into into our lives, whether it’s with our own hands, a friend with benefits, a hook-up, a new companion, or any combination. Sex After Grief includes a variety of people’s personal stories from folks of all genders and orientations. Some jumped into sex quickly. Some took years. Some withdrew from sexual possibility. No one was wrong, and no choice is defective or shameful.
Sex After Grief includes:
Inspiring tales of how different people brought sex back into their lives after the loss of their spouse or partner
Guidelines for dating again and getting sexual with a new person
Reasons that solo sex is healthy and can be the path to feeling sexual again
Advice from therapists, grief counselors, and sex coaches
Self-help takeaways for creating an action plan
Customer Reviews
Taking a chance
I am 67 years old. After a 31 year marriage where last 25 years were sexless, My husband passed away unexpectedly. That was six years ago and I still haven’t contemplated sex. Totally scared. I was propositioned by a man a couple of days ago pretty much just for sex. I I wasn’t even going to consider it until I read this book. The book opened my eyes to how much I’ve lost out and how much I would like some intimacy. Although I’m scared, I’m going to take him up on the offer.