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Sex, Meaning and the Menopause Sue Brayne

Sex, Meaning and the Menopause By Sue Brayne

Sex, Meaning and the Menopause by Sue Brayne


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Deals with a menopausal woman's search for what matters, and a challenge to the myth that all older women want to remain sexually active. The author explores the lived, felt experience of what it means to be postmenopausal, and looks at how it affects relationships and changes lives.

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Sex, Meaning and the Menopause by Sue Brayne

This is a menopausal woman's search for what matters, and a challenge to the myth that all older women want to remain sexually active. In a highly-sexualised and media-hyped society, postmenopausal woman often feel pressurised to have 'great sex.' Books and websites prescribe what the menopause should be. And, if it isn't, here's how to fix it. Painful sex and mood swings can be cured by HRT. Some women take the artificial route to remain sexually active. Others choose a natural approach, even if it means dwindling sexual desire. 'I used to seek it out. Now I endure it', said one woman. But few talk about it. 'It's far more of a taboo than talking about death', said another woman. Fading libido can have a profound effect on relationships. 'I feel despair', said a 61 year-old husband. 'I have to accept that my sex life is more or less over.' And another: 'I have never broached this with my wife, but to think I may never have sex again is very dangerous.' Sue explores the lived, felt experience of what it means to be postmenopausal, and looks at how it affects relationships and changes lives.

Sex, Meaning and the Menopause Reviews

Author interview on Fab After Fifty website, http: //www.fabafterfifty.co.uk/2011/06/02/do-men-understand-the-menopause-interview-with-sue-brayne/
Author podcasts on Simply Hormones website, http: //simplyhormonespodcast.com/
Sue Brayne voices the concerns of many women over the menopause in her book's opening pages... this is an excellent guide.--Irish Mail on Sunday
Author article in Big Issue in Scotland.
Author article in Therapy Today Volume 22, Issue 6
Author interview on sciencedaily.comhttp: //www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712210922.htm
Author article in HR Director
Author interview and feature in Woman's Way
Author interview on sciencedaily.com http: //www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712210922.htm
I found I was hooked by the middle of the introduction. Sue Brayne has, with the skill of a talented therapist, gone deep and wide on a topic we just don't talk about...sex after menopause! She has courageously asked questions and offered opinions that may shock the reader but whose consideration will also enrich them. Her decision to add the voices of male partners is brilliant and provides look into the minds and hearts of the "innocent victims " of our journey from fertility to freedom.--Sanford Lakoff

About Sue Brayne

Sue Brayne is a published author, academic writer and researcher, workshop leader and psychotherapist. She is the author of The D-Word: Talking About Dying (Continuum, 2010).

Table of Contents

Part 1: How did we get here?; Historical overview of the Menopause; Sex in the babyboomer generation; The Viagra effect; Part 2: Talking about sex; Flagging libidos v. sexual freedom; Guilt and shame v. liberation; What's a man to do?; Part 3: Finding meaning; Intimacy v. sex; The search for meaning; The next step.

Additional information

CIN0826423019VG
9780826423016
0826423019
Sex, Meaning and the Menopause by Sue Brayne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Continuum Publishing Corporation
2011-06-02
176
N/A
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