It’s Enough To Make A Unicorn Blush: Our Problem With Talking About Sex
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Not long ago I wrote a blog called “Sex, Love, and Unicorns,” describing the ambivalence I was encountering when I talked about sex among us older folk. Everyone seemed to be embarrassed by the topic. Those who were doing it were a little sheepish and didn’t want to go public. Those who weren’t doing it were a little cynical and didn’t want to hear others sing the praises of a revitalized erotic life. It got more than 500 comments!
Sex, Love, And Unicorns: A
Valentine To Intimacy As We Age
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Being in love knows no age limits, and our bodies can experience great sex throughout our lifetime. That is the message of my new book How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood. But as I have been talking up that message, I have learned a thing or two about how it is received.
We Are Each Other’s Role Models
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
@Feminist.com
My new Column at Feminist.com – Navigating Second Adulthood – will look at the many challenges raised by the question: “What Will I Do with the Rest of My Life?” The answers are different for every woman, but they all reflect new opportunities for self-discovery, intimacy, and activism.
The first column in the Ongoing Series – “We are Each Other’s Role Models” – is an excerpt from How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood:
Special NYC/TTN Event with
Suzanne Braun Levine, Feb. 16
NYC/The Transition Network
Reinventing Love in Second
Adulthood
Join The New York City Chapter of The Transition Network for an evening with Suzanne Braun Levine sharing her groundbreaking, funny, poignant stories, interviews and research on the many ways women are finding love, and redefining their relationships in Second Adulthood.”
Cyma’s Pick’s: The Newly-released
“How We Love Now”
By Cyma Shapiro, founder
MotheringintheMiddle.com
“You’re Not Who You were Only Older,”
Suzanne Braun Levine
I haven’t written a book review for Mothering, yet, since I believe our readers are a widely diverse group of women representing many ages, interests and ideologies. So, when I received How We Love Now, I wasn’t sure what I would do with it, other than read it.
Good-Bye Self-Improvement, I Am
Letting Go
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
My new book How We Love Now is out this week.
The date was chosen because in publishing January is “self-improvement month.” The thinking is that at the start of the New Year we want to repent for all the guilty pleasures we indulged in over the holidays. Which is also why we make resolutions — to become better than we are. Oy, the guilt.
HOW WE LOVE NOW – AND
HOW I LOVED DECEMBER, 2011
By Suzanne Braun Levine
This has been quite a month!
First of all, I finally held in my hands a copy of my new book How We Love Now; it has been eighteen months since I finished it, and at last it is real. The scary part is that it will soon be in the hands of actual readers, and while I am anxious to hear if it resonates with other women, I am less anxious to hear if it doesn’t, which will undoubtedly happen.
“We Still Undress in the Dark…”
Is on Huff/Post 50 Today!
By Suzanne Braun Levine
I am happy to report that I am now blogging on Huff/Post50. My first post is up today – “We Still Undress in the Dark, But the Sex Is Great!”
“HOW WE LOVE NOW: Sex and the
New Intimacy in Second Adulthood”
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
EXCLUSIVE, BOOK EXCERPT
Thousands of women in their fifties, sixties and seventies are living – and defining a totally new love narrative. Whether they are already experiencing intimacy or joy – and great sex! – or need the inspiration and support to go for it, readers will be energized and motivated by the stories of new ways of loving in How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood…
“Coming Together To Make Aging A Little Easier”: TTN Caring Collaborative in
The New York Times
In “How We Love Now” I talk about the difference between care-giving and care-getting, by which I mean the necessity of watching out for one’s own needs even if it means asking for help (and we all know how hard that is!).
As a model for one kind of care-getting I describe the Caring Collaborative created by The Transition Network (TTN).