Sex After Sixty
a French guide to loving intimacy
$29.59
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2016
Summary
In Sex After Sixty, Marie de Hennezel addresses the most taboo of subjects: the sexuality of seniors.
Employing an equal measure of modesty and irreverence, de Hennezel probes the mystery and depth of the enjoyment of physical love at a later stage of life. Through interviews, lectures, and her own analysis — including forays into areas such as tantric sex — she invites the reader on a journey to the heart of this unrecognised territory.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925228700 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1925228703 |
| Author: | Marie de Hennezel, Kate Bignold, Luisa Nitrato Izzo |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2016 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 211mm x 136mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘Marie de Hennezel allows the reader to deliciously eavesdrop on ordinary elderly people talking about how they keep the fires of passion burning. Not only is sex possible, it’s better. Who wouldn’t want to read this book? I couldn’t stop turning the pages: all these people, my age and older, speaking with such openness about the pleasures that age cannot erase.’
– Lorna Crozier, author of The Book of Marvels and Small Beneath the Sky, and co-contributor of The Wild in YouAbout The Author
Marie de Hennezel
Marie de Hennezel is an esteemed psychologist and psychotherapist entrusted with the mission of raising palliative-care awareness by the French ministry of health. She is the author of two ministerial reports about caring for those with terminal illnesses, and has written ten books about growing older, including The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting and Seize the Day. Her books have been translated into 22 languages.
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