Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty

Still Doing It: The Intimate Lives of Women over Sixty

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Overview

"An informed, honest, joyous book. Younger women may well envy us." -Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives and

"Sex, love, and life can grow even richer as we grow older, and the stereotype-busting women in this book show us scores of ways. These women are not going downhill, they're on a roll. They are women of juice and wisdom-and living proof that the best is yet to come."- Gina Ogden, PhD, author of Women Who Love Sex, The Heart and Soul of Sex, and The Return of Desire

When Deirdre Fishel and Diana Holtzberg began work on their documentary Still Doing It, they knew they were catching a wave.

The women of the baby-boom generation who had been so outspoken about sexuality and freedom were about to turn sixty, yet no one was talking about the revolution in aging. Nor was anyone letting on about the big dark secret that women born before the boomers, even way before, were a hell of a lot more vital than the images we were getting, and many were still having sex-and loving it! In Still Doing It, Fishel, Holtzberg, and the incredible women in their documentary broke the silence.

Now they are back, with a stimulating and eye-opening book that offers a deeper look at women who break every stereotype we have about sex and intimacy. These women are dynamic, confident, opinionated, and wise. They're also having the kind of intense sexual experiences and fantasies we never associate with grandmothers. You'll meet Betty, who met her live-in boyfriend in an online chat room when she was sixty-nine and he was twenty-two; Joani, age seventy, who shares her boyfriend with another woman; and Frances, who encountered the intellectual and sexual love of her life at eighty.

Today's women are living longer, healthier lives, and their appetite for sex and adventure isn't fading. Aware of their mortality, they understand just how precious life really is, and are willing to take risks to go after what they want. Challenging stereotypes about older women, Still Doing It lets everyone know that sex and adventure do not need to end when you hit sixty (or seventy . . . or ninety!). In fact, the good stuff is often just beginning.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440639777
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/02/2008
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 187 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Deirdre Fishel has been writing and directing documentaries and dramas for twenty years, most centering on women’s lives. Fishel’s work has been screened at film festivals all over the United States and Europe and has been broadcast on more than thirty channels worldwide.

Diana Holtzberg received her certificate in film from New York University and has been the acquisitions, project development, and sales director for the U.S. office of Films Transit International, a worldwide documentary film sales company with an impressive roster of renowned documentaries.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Deirdre Fishel xi

Introduction by Diana Holtzberg xv

1 Hitting Sixty with a Boom: The New Old Age 1

2 Going Strong: Romance Throughout Life 23

3 The Partner Gap 49

4 Older and Wilder: Nontraditional Relationships 67

5 Taking Your Sweet Time: Sex as We Age 85

6 Party of One: Solo Sensuality 103

7 Bodies Built to Last: Our Bodies Over Time 119

8 Dealing with Loss: The Journey Continues 139

9 Aging, the Great Adventure 159

Notes 179

Index 181

What People are Saying About This

Suzanne Braun Levine

The truth about older women is that we love the stage of life we are in, and we are actively exploring new frontiers of experience. That includes sex. Until now, though, our doctors, our children, even some of our friends, and certainly the rest of society couldn't imagine us enjoying ourselves in bed. No more. Thank you, Deirdre Fishel and Diana Holtzberg for getting the conversation going and setting an informed, honest, joyous tone. Younger women may well envy us. (Suzanne Braun Levine, author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood and Fifty is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons from Second Adulthood)

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