The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women

Judy Higgs

• 19 januari 2026
• 9781764465915

Samenvatting:

There are nearly 400 million women over the age of 65 in the world - and almost no one is talking about their intimate lives. The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women is here to break the silence.

For too long, older women have been rendered invisible. Politely dismissed. Expected to fade quietly into the background of other people's stories to bake casseroles or knit sweaters for distressed penguins.

yet these women, now in their sixties and seventies once helped reshape the world. They fought for equality, independence and the right to live on their own terms.

This is a book about intimacy in its many forms - about tenderness and courage, about longing and rediscovery, about the quiet ache of wanting to be seen and the profound joy of being cherished.

The Secret Sex Lives of Older Women offers a rare and intimate portrait of real women who have lived full lives. Through anonymous interviews shared with remarkable openness, women speak with honesty, humour, vulnerability and grace. They reflect on love found and lost, bodies changed and reclaimed, and the enduring truth that desire does not disappear - it evolves.

Within each chapter readers find out more about:

• Do Older Women Care That Much About a Limp Penis?
• Faking It: The Great Female Courtesy
• "Female Sexual Dysfunction" and the Problem with Labels
• Sex Education for the Beatles Generation
• Hormones: The Drama Queens of Desire
• Orgasm Inequality
• The Cultural Double Standard: Men Age, Women Disappear
• The Role of Frequency: Can it Improve Satisfaction?
• Love Needs Closeness-Desire Needs Space
• The Secret Art of Loving an Older Woman
• When Desire Isn't Dead-Just Bored
• Love, Lust... and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
• Why Affairs Feel Like Magic
• The Monogamy Problem Nobody Wants to Admit
• If Porn Is Education, We're All in Trouble