How We Love Now
Women Talk About Intimacy After 50
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $14.99
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Publisher Description
Where do we find the relationships that matter in our second adulthood? Susanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, anwers these questions with charming wit, experience, and intrigue in How We Love Now, with a new introduction by the author.
Today, women in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are defining a totally new love narrative. Whether they are already experiencing intimacy—and great sex!—or longing to, these women are discovering unparalleled freedom and joy. Continuing Suzanne Braun Levine’s ongoing conversation with women in Second Adulthood, How We Love Now draws on her interviews with women across the country. Some are finding new relationships—with younger men, other women, or rediscovered childhood sweethearts—while others are enriching longstanding ones. (Of course, the Internet has opened up a new world of opportunities.) Their funny, heart-wrenching, and inspiring stories prove that this pioneering generation of women is continuing to take risks—and enjoying life more than ever.
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Founding Ms. magazine editor Levine (Feisty Side of Fifty) reports from the trenches of "second adulthood" to survey baby boomer women's love lives. The responses are as varied as the aging of Aquarius respondents themselves. The sexual revolution veteran brags that intercourse has "never been better" because "his time my enjoyment comes first." Others search for Mr. Goodbar in cyberspace. "We are weather-beaten, but not browbeaten," one feisty 75-year-old declares reason enough, Levine concludes, for giddy optimism for a generation galloping into old age.
