The sexuality of people over a certain age seems to be something of a taboo subject - but not for esteemed French psychologist Marie de Hennezel.
In her new book, Sex After Sixty: a French guide to loving intimacy, she looks at how emotional intimacy plays a huge role in maintaining a sex life as you age and how knowing how to take pleasure as it comes, rather than focussing on what could be, can be the key to a more erotic and satisfying sexuality.
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Marie de Hennezel is the author of two ministerial reports about caring for those with terminal illnesses, and has written ten books about growing older, including the Sunday Times top-5 bestseller The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.
From attending Tantric workshops to interviewing dozens of sexually active older people, de Hennezel looks at the role that sex plays in our health and sets out on a quest to discover how you can continue to enjoy a satisfying sex life into old age. She brings her insight as a psychotherapist - along with her Gallic joie de vivre and frankness - to bear on a subject that has been brushed under the carpet for too long. Having seen the sexual revolution first-hand in France in the 1960s and 70s, today de Hennezel - born in 1946 - argues that it's time for a new sexual revolution, one which acknowledges that sex is important at any stage of adulthood, and which embraces many different ways of making love. In a society saturated by online porn and 'hook-up culture', reflecting on intimacy and learning from those who know how to make it last is more important than ever, making her book essential reading for lovers of any age.
Perhaps hotmama the medication has more of an effect on your DH than you think. Also perhaps the reason for the medication could impact him. He might be concerned for his health or just lost interest (I don't mean in you). Try looking up his medication or condition on the Internet and see what the side effects are. Hope you can persuade him to discuss it more as it is obviously upsetting you. I do also agree with others that it is possible to have a very loving relationship with or without sex. Depends on the individuals involved.
wobbly remember your bits. Take care in the car and don't get a puncture 
Behave Wobbly!
I think it is great that some of us can talk openly about sex in later years and still enjoy it, even if less gymnastic. Other simply get their enjoyment from a loving relationship where sex no longer plays a major part. Either way it is great that the older generation can feel young at heart. Our son has bought a new car today !, wonder if we will be asked to babysit again soon.
Crafting - well, we are children of the 60s!
Group sex kitty 
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wobbly, you are awful, but I like you .
Specki hope all goes well for you both.
I'm not sure this thread is going in the correct direction.
Laughter and fun (in a good way) is probably the answer Specki or has the weekend already begun? 
I should be so lucky!
f77ms: Do you have trouble reading English? My post questioned why anyone would wish to discuss their sex lives on a public Forum, and I wrote that I found it strange. I did not write that it offends me.
Wobbly, you do make me laugh
how 
, I don't get out much
Wobbly
Didn't see that coming Wobblybits
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