150 Most-Asked Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy: What Women and Their Partners Really Want to Know

Forty-five million baby boomers will turn fifty over the next three years - and the generation that spawned the sexual revolution is feeling the strain: Flagging sexual interest ... painful intercourse ... erection problems ... or maybe everything works fine, but you lack a partner! Medical writer and lecturer Ruth S. Jacobowitz has traveled the country conducting in-depth discussion groups and interviews with men and women about their sexual concerns at midlife. Here she reveals how to keep the sexual sparks flying throughout midlife's changes and at any age, sharing the latest findings in endocrinology, urology, sexology, psychology, and geriatric medicine in this information-packed book. In an accessible, question-and-answer format that covers readers' real-life concerns, Ruth Jacobowitz outlines the pros and cons of the new testosterone therapy for women and what it can and cannot do to resolve sex problems, as well as alternative therapies that may help. Also included are frank discussions about extramarital affairs, mood swings, masturbation, hormone replacement therapies, safe sex tactics, gaining sexual energy through exercise, and communicating your sexual needs to your partner.