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Being open about sex can be difficult, especially after the loss of a partner. Join author Joan Price as she navigates sex, romance, and mourning in her bestselling book,
Sex After Grief.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Why a Book about Sex and Grief?
Chapter 2: Myths about Sex and Grieving
Chapter 3: My Own Struggle with Sex after Grief
Chapter 4: Solo Sex
Chapter 5: Dating Again
Chapter 6: For Non-Grievers Who Want to Date Us
Chapter 7: It’s Okay If You’re Not Ready
Chapter 8: Your (New) First Time
Chapter 9: It’s Not All or Nothing
Chapter 10: The Pilot Light Lover
Chapter 11: Friend with Benefits
Chapter 12: After Caregiving Your Partner
Chapter 13: Massage or More?
Chapter 14: Sex of Many Stripes
Chapter 15: Journaling Your Journey
Chapter 16: Grief Counselors, Sex Coaches, and Support Groups
Chapter 17: What’s Next?
About the author
Joan Price calls herself an advocate for ageless sexuality. She has been writing and speaking about sex and aging since 2005, when she wrote
Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex after Sixty at age 62. She is now an internationally popular public speaker and sex educator on older-age sexuality. Joan’s most acclaimed books include S
ex after Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved, winner of the 2020 service/self-help Book Award from ASJA: American Society of Journalists and Authors, and
Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex, winner of multiple awards. Find Joan’s books, tips, webinars, and blog— including her pleasure tool reviews!—at https://joanprice.com/.
Summary
Being open about sex can be difficult, especially after the loss of a partner. Join author Joan Price as she navigates sex, romance, and mourning in her bestselling book, Sex After Grief.
Foreword
- Joan Price is known by the media as the voice of senior sex. She has been interviewed by more than 30 publications, radio shows, and podcasts, including New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, USA Today, AARP.com, Newsweek en Español, Woman’s Day (Australia), CBC Canada, Instituto de Longevidade (Brazil), Wysokie Obcasy (Poland), Savage Love (Dan Savage’s column), and New York City News Service, among others. Her monthly “Sex at Our Age” Q&A column for SeniorPlanet.org has been running since 2014.
- Price works with AARP as their senior sex specialist.
- This book won the best service/self-help book in 2020
from ASJA: American Society of Journalists and Authors
- Price is an international speaker on senior sex.
- Price regularly presents senior sex workshops at conferences, sexuality shops, and organizations, including AASECT (American Assn of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists), CatalystCon* (multiple times), Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit (multiple times), Kaiser Permanente, Full Circle Festival of Aging (VT), Smitten Kitten (Minneapolis, multiple times), Pleasure Chest (NY and LA, multiple times), Good Vibrations (SF, multiple times), and others. *CatalystCon awarded Price the 2015 Catalyst Award for “inspiring exceptional conversations in sexuality.”
- Joan Price calls herself an advocate for ageless sexuality. She has been called other things by the media: “senior sexpert,” “the beautiful face of senior sex,” and—her favorite—“wrinkly sex kitten.”
- She is a collaborator, script writer, and narrator for the “Guide to Wicked Sex: Senior Sex” with Jessica Drake for Wicked Pictures.
