Unmasked: Women Write about Sex and Intimacy After Fifty

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Women over fifty are “the invisible woman” in American culture. In a society that reveres youth – and particularly young, sexy women – women over fifty fade into the shadows. Yet, for plenty of women at mid-life, this can be a time of flowering and coming into one’s own, sexually and another way. Many older women love sex and crave the intimacy it provides. For each story of a harried mother who turns her husband away at night, or the older woman who long ago lost her libido, there are legions of others whose sex drives match those of men.

A latest study found that sixty percent of women fifty to fifty-nine were sexually active, that just about fifty percent of women in their sixties were sexually active, and nearly thirty percent of those over seventy were sexually active. So, why is so little attention paid to sex and intimacy among women in later life? Other than a smattering of magazine articles and a few academic books, very little has been written about women, sex and intimacy. Oh, there are many how-tos: advice on vaginal dryness and pain all over sex and erectile dysfunction. But there’s a dearth of work written by women about their sexual experiences after fifty.

This collection of essays and poetry is meant to bring sex after fifty for women into the open, to proclaim that it is important, it is natural and healthy and, for some women, it is absolutely necessary. Unmasked will surprise, inform, and–it is hoped–encourage all women of a certain age to (re)discover their sexuality.

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