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Has Missing the Sexual Revolution Undermined Your Satisfying Senior Sex?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Most people reading this blog are old enough to have missed the sexual revolution.  For most of us, our sex education consisted of an embarrassing conversation with a teacher in the sixth or seventh grade. Girls heard a lecture about becoming a woman, and saw a Disney cartoon about menstruation. The boys were in a separate room, with their own embarrassing discussion.

Most of us learned the details from such classic sex manuals like Peyton Place, and other scandalous novels of the fifties-early sixties.

Not only was most of what we learned from these experts wrong…but Read More→

How to Slip into Not Having Senior Sex At All

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

No one goes to bed at night, has satisfying senior sex, and then never makes love again.

For most couples slipping into what some professionals call the “sexless marriage” is not a decision or a choice. It just sort of happens.

This unfortunate situation is characterized as those marriages, or significant relationships, where the couple has sexual relations less than Read More→

Predictable Changes of Aging Women Experience

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

For women, the changes of aging may seem obvious.

We go through menopause, whether hastened along by a hysterectomy, or the “natural path” of waiting for our hormones to slow down and eventually stop.

While the primary effect is cessation of our child bearing ability, there are lots more subtle, and not so subtle, side effects of no more hormones.

Many men would say, “Finally Read More→

Are You Letting Your Life Interfere with Your Satisfying Senior Sex Life?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Many couples, both younger and older, unwittingly relegate a satisfying sexual relationship into nonexistence. And then wonder why they aren’t feeling as connected, and loving as they once had.

For the most part, when I’ve asked these couples what the problems seem to be, they say some version of “we really love each other, but we just never seem to have any time to make love.”

Inevitably, as we probe around for what’s getting in the way, they admit to a pattern, not just in their relationship, Read More→

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Satisfying Senior Sex Sometimes Means Making a Different Effort

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

It may be difficult to accept you can’t be the sexual giant, or giantess,  you used to be.

Especially if intercourse can no longer be a part of your lovemaking.
But, at our age, your body gets to run the show, not your wishes or hopes.

And, it’s not enough to have Read More→