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The best-selling author of The Hidden knowledge Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly honest take a look at how to enjoy a long, satisfying sex life regardless of what life throws at you. Starting up, matrimony, childbirth, infidelity, divorce, menopause, widowhood - women's lives have many periods, changes, and issues. A prevailing question on women's brains as they get older is, "How do I take care of the shifts in my own sexuality caused by these transitions?"In Intimacy After..., veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Iris Krasnow tackles this question head-on. Krasnow journeyed the country, interviewing over 150 women, from waitresses to CEOs, age ranges 20 to 88. Here she shares their varied testimonies - natural, titillating, and, most of all, real. Their confessions are bolstered by Krasnow's in-depth research and reporting, as well as commentary from experts which range from oncologists, gynecologists, and sex therapists to a Rabbi and the still-feisty Dr. Ruth Westheimer. This wealthy chorus of voices joins mutually in an unprecedented and all-encompassing exploration of each period of intimacy and sexuality and of how life's passages impact a woman's mind, body, and heart.We meet a wife whose spouse lost a calf in Afghanistan; women re-jiggering their relationships after being pregnant, mastectomies, and hysterectomies; and those dealing with husbands with prostate malignancy or a penchant for Viagra. We have been also thrust in to the sagas of post-college random sex and going out with after divorce and widowhood - in an era when STDs in older populations are on the rise. And there are testimonies from long-married grandmothers - a sunset period of life that can turn out to be very sexy, through adjusted targets and the intro of new gadgets and new routines.In her hallmark conversational style, Krasnow leaves no stone unturned when it comes to sex and intimacy, from hooking up in the 20s to hooking up in senior neighborhoods - and everything in between.A well-crafted balance of inspirational (and juicy) anecdotes and prescriptive medical information, this is actually the booklet that offers every woman secrets and strategies that will help her feel sexy and fully alive throughout the feminine growth cycle.