Sex After . . .: Women Share How Intimacy Changes as Life Changes

Iris Krasnow

Feb 2014 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Wives offers a refreshingly straightforward guide to enjoying a long, satisfying sex life.
 
Women of the baby boomer generation know and trust Iris Krasnow as a writer who speaks candidly to the issues that concern them most. In the months following the publication of her most recent book, The Secret Lives of Wives, Krasnow addressed thousands of women, and she discovered that two subjects dominated her audiences’ conversations: sex and change. Whether women are worried about marriage and divorce or illness and death, they’re all asking: “How do I handle the shifts in my sexuality caused by these events?” Sex After . . . holds the answers to everything from regaining sexual confidence after childbirth and breast cancer to navigating the dating scene in senior communities.
 
As with all of Krasnow’s books since her New York Times bestseller Surrendering to Marriage, the narrative is driven by real women’s stories: raw, intimate, and, most importantly, true. Prescriptive, emancipating, and insightful, Sex After . . . addresses a range of circumstances, including what happens:

• When you or your spouse doesn’t want sex anymore
• After cancer, amputation, PTSD, or another illness maims the body
• If you come out of the closet at middle age
• When your marriage is damaged by adultery
• If you’re dating again after twenty-five years with the same sexual partner
• When your husband is addicted to Viagra

 
Filled with edgy and honest stories of carnal challenge and triumph from women of all backgrounds and life stages, Sex After . . . is Krasnow’s signature take on Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask—during all of life’s passages. Krasnow is a media and lecture tour favorite, and readers—whether in the heat of an initial can’t-eat-can’t-sleep attraction or rounding the corner to their sixtieth anniversary—will applaud her eye-opening perspectives on the one issue that can change lives for better or worse like nothing else.

Ratings and reviews

I had expected a higher level of scholarship, but found the book worthwhile. The author claims that she is simply surveying others' attitudes and experiences, but I had no trouble sniffing out her own biases. The cases are replete with the infantile attitudes of adult children worshipping at the altar of the BIG ME, who need a serious recalibration of their moral compasses but, thankfully, enough insight comes through to, at least for me, illuminate a different, helpful perspective on relationship dynamics. I think I am a wiser person for it.

About the author

Iris Krasnow is a New York Times bestselling author, most recently of The Secret Lives of Wives, a journalist, professor, and professional speaker. She lives near Washington, DC, with her husband of twenty-five years. They have four grown sons.