A seasoned woman is spicy She has been marinated in life experience She can be alternately sweet tart bubbly mellow She can be maternal and playful Bossy and submissive Strong and soft The seasoned woman knows who she is She could be any one of us as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of lifeIn her most groundbreaking work since Passages and The Silent Passage bestselling author Gail Sheehy reveals a hidden cultural phenomenonincreased vitality in womens sex and love lives after fifty Sex and the Seasoned Woman is the story of an intimate revolution taking place under our very noses Boomer generation women in midlife are open to sex love dating new dreams exploring spirituality and revitalizing their marriages as never before This is a new universe of passionate liberated womenmarried and singlewho are unwilling to settle for the stereotypical roles of middle age and are now realizing they dont have to As life spans grow longer and as societal constraints continue to loosen older womenonce free of the exhausting demands of young children needy husbands and demanding careersfind themselves ready to pursue the passionate life They embrace their second adulthood as a period of reawakeningWritten in Sheehys singularly compelling style combining interviews and research this book gives voice to more than a hundred fascinating and colorful women The inspiring stories tell of wives who reinvigorate their marriages after their children leave the nest as well as divorced widowed and long-single women who find new dreams and new loves Sheehy delineates a crucial link between cultivating a new dream and reopening the pathway to intimacy and sexual pleasure She also examines the latest medical breakthroughs addressing symptoms that have unnecessarily curtailed womens sex livesFrom women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies eighties and even nineties these portraits cover an enormous range of experience In them Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.
