Naked at Our Age, Read at Any Age

I just fin­ished read­ing Joan Price’s won­der­ful book “Naked at Our Age: Talk­ing Out Loud About Senior Sex”. The prin­ci­ple topic is senior (peo­ple over fifty) sex­u­al­ity. This is a topic that most younger peo­ple and many older peo­ple seemed to believe either is a myth or some­thing that should not be dis­cussed or even (ew) gross. But senior sex is nei­ther a myth nor a topic that should not be dis­cussed or gross. Senior sex is seniors being people.

What comes through very clearly in Ms Price’s book is that senior sex dif­fers from young peo­ple sex by the com­plex­i­ties of the impact life has had on seniors. Sex is just as impor­tant to the health and well-being of seniors as it is to young peo­ple. The expres­sion of sex in the life of seniors just is adapted to ways appro­pri­ate for their life, which may be dif­fer­ent for dif­fer­ent seniors.

I found the indi­vid­ual sto­ries enlight­en­ing. The breadth of expe­ri­ence of the dif­fer­ent sto­ries just rein­forces how we all have dif­fer­ent lives and dif­fer­ent life expe­ri­ences. There is also a strong under­ly­ing theme in many of the indi­vid­ual sto­ries and also in Ms Price’s own very open reflec­tions of her life with Robert Rice; there is true love and affec­tion expressed in the stores, even between peo­ple who have not been able to resolve their phys­i­cal sex­ual relationship.

This is a book all adults would ben­e­fit from reading.

Read Joan Price’s book to bet­ter under­stand the lives of seniors. Read this book to under­stand bet­ter how to live a reward­ing sex­ual life as a senior. Read this book to bet­ter under­stand how you will age when you become a senior and how to main­tain a reward­ing sex­ual life. Read this book to bet­ter under­stand how to com­mu­ni­cate among soci­ety so that we can all lead more reward­ing and sat­is­fy­ing lives.

We owe Joan Price great thanks for this book, for col­lect­ing these sto­ries, for col­lect­ing the expert advice, for bring­ing this topic to pub­lic atten­tion and dis­cus­sion. Senior sex has been a topic kept in the shad­ows way too long.

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