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.
DTE 
My problem is depression and the meds that go with it plus a pituitary tumour that wrecks my hormone levels. We just accept what we have and enjoy being together.
Greatmum So sad to read your post, it must be extremely hard to live with someone and not get the love you crave. I really do feel for you.
Wobbly I didn't know that you were suffering from depression and have a tumour. You always sound so upbeat and post funny things. I send you a hug. ((hug)) I take comfort in your posts on this subject as I would like to be in a relationship, but due to health problems, would not want to be like a tigress in the bedroom. I would want kindness and care and love, not just lust. So to read that some men don't just want the sex side too gives me hope. 
And lips, I'd imagine
I'm 45 white divorced and want to meet an older lady 65-95 to marry in my heart.That is my desire.
You're in just the right place chum! Hang around for a while and they'll be queuing up! 
He wants age up to 95.
You're in!
Walked right into that one didn't I!
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