Is Meryl Streep Our Generation’s Next Helen Gurley Brown?
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
The fact that Meryl Streep’s new movie “Hope Springs” opened and Helen Gurley Brown died in the same week seems to me a passing of a very important baton. The baton our Post50 generation needs to get us moving toward an honest and candid discussion about sex. Helen did it for us back in the sixties in her books and her magazine; Meryl is getting the conversation going with her movies.
Why Women My Age Are Reading
’50 Shades of Grey’
Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James is number one on the New York Times best-seller list — an unusual slot for a pornographic novel. And it has gotten there by word of mouth. Have you heard about it? Have you read it? Are you thinking you might? In my conversations with women all over the country in recent weeks, the answers are variations of yes.
Not that the plot matters, but it’s about an innocent college student and an incredibly attractive and very rich man, who also keeps a bondage chamber.
“Older Women Take on the Challenges of
Life, Love and Sex”
Marcia G. Yerman
Huff/Post50
Three books that fall on this continuum which overlap, while still standing solidly in their own sphere are:
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.
“SUGAR TIME” – THE BEST BEACH READ OF SUMMER 2009!
LOVE, SEX, INTIMACY… A New Novel from Jane Adams A year or so ago, I read the manuscript of a novel about a woman like us – turning 60, facing career challenges, dealing with uncooperative children, redefining love- AND sex – and getting to know her authentic self. Charlotte “Sugar” Kane is a great character […]
HOW DO WE LOVE TODAY?
HELP ME COUNT THE WAYS
DEFINING A NEW WAY OF LOVING IN SECOND ADULTHOOD Do you have a partner or a project or a person who moves you deeply? Someone you trust totally? Have you heard yourself use the word “love” in circumstances you hadn’t before? Do you connect love with sex? If you feel you are missing love in […]