That book is based on the interviews of thousands of women over the age of 50 who met in small groups and discussed their view of sexuality and sensuality with the authors. The first couple chapters were depressing as woman after woman is quoted at saying things like I would rather pick apples than have sex with my husband, or my key to a happy marriage is to cook really good filling dinners that make my husband want to fall asleep after dinner, etc. In some of the later chapters it tells how some women add things to their life and relationship to keep the spark of senuality alive within them.
(3) I think that one of the unsaid reasons for the depressing statements about older women and their sex drive may be the condition of their husbands. Specifically, in Still Sexy after all these years it talks alot about women over 50 whose husbands have died or who are divorced and what their sensual/sexual life is like. I heard on a call-in talk radio medical show a doctor recent talk about the connection of Viagra or ED medications to going deaf. He made a statement, which he called the "50/50 rule regarding ED." He said (and I have no study to back it up) that about 50% of the men over age 50 have some form of ED problem.
If that is the case it explains both by Pfeizer and other ED medication manufacturers are getting rich and why women over age 50 may be finding other things than sex for their amusement. After all it takes two, or at least it use to before ED pills.
>43 years of marriage--My wife and I are now closer than we have been in decades. I believe that my SSM is over.
