Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved

by Joan Price

Overview

Sex is complicated after the death of a partner. Joan Price offers wisdom on grief, dating, and sex in the updated edition of Sex after Grief.

A warm, candid approach to hard challenges. When we’re overcome by grief, sex can be confusing. How do we nurture ourselves as sexual beings when we’re grieving our partner’s death? Why does caring for ourselves sexually matter when we’d rather hide in bed and wail? How do we know when it’s time to open ourselves to a new sex partner? How can we move on and take a second chance? With this revolutionary grief book, readers can gain clarity from Joan Price’s own experiences with love and death, and those of other grievers.

A grief book like no other. In 2019, Sex after Grief was the first book to address sex and grief together and treat sex as a positive, life-affirming part of emerging from grief. Joan Price, the top expert on senior sex, shared her raw grief journey after the loss of her husband, her attempts to dip back into dating, and finally her sexual reawakening. The book is filled with experiences of other widows, widowers, and others who lost their committed partners. In this updated, expanded 2024 edition, Price adds new chapters, stories from readers, and expert tips. Everyone’s experience with sex and grief is different. Some jump into a new relationship quickly while others withdraw from intimacy. Price debunks hurtful myths about sex and dating and helps you discover how to reclaim your sexuality in your own way, on your own timeline.

Sex After Grief includes:

• Inspiring stories of how diverse people became sexually active with new lovers after the loss of their partners.
• Sex-positive guidelines for dating again and becoming sexual with a new person
• Advice from health professionals such as therapists, grief counselors, and sex coaches

If you enjoyed books such as The In-Between, Love After 50, or Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief, you will love Sex After Grief.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781684816026
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	11/12/2024
Pages:	245
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Joan Price calls herself an advocate for ageless sexuality. She has been writing and speaking about sex and aging since 2005, when she wrote Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex after Sixty at age 62. She is now an internationally popular public speaker and sex educator on older-age sexuality. Joan’s most acclaimed books include Sex after Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved, winner of the 2020 service/self-help Book Award from ASJA: American Society of Journalists and Authors, and Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex, winner of multiple awards. Find Joan’s books, tips, webinars, and blog— including her pleasure tool reviews!—at https://joanprice.com/.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Why a Book about Sex and Grief?
Chapter 2: Myths about Sex and Grieving
Chapter 3: My Own Struggle with Sex after Grief
Chapter 4: Solo Sex
Chapter 5: Dating Again
Chapter 6: For Non-Grievers Who Want to Date Us
Chapter 7: It’s Okay If You’re Not Ready
Chapter 8: Your (New) First Time
Chapter 9: It’s Not All or Nothing
Chapter 10: The Pilot Light Lover
Chapter 11: Friend with Benefits
Chapter 12: After Caregiving Your Partner
Chapter 13: Massage or More?
Chapter 14: Sex of Many Stripes
Chapter 15: Journaling Your Journey
Chapter 16: Grief Counselors, Sex Coaches, and Support Groups
Chapter 17: What’s Next?
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What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Price’s latest book begins a much-needed conversation on what has long been considered a taboo question: what happens to your sex life after the death of a partner? Price offers valuable advice and guidance in an accessible writing style that brims with passion and compassion.”
—Dr. Justin Lehmiller, author of Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life

“Joan Price has crossed taboo boundaries again—this time about the impact on sex of loss and grieving. All of us who cope with rebirthing sex after facing loss of a beloved wish we had a roadmap to follow. This book lights a path that sets us on the journey to recovery, with content that is relevant, necessary, and inspiring for grievers and the professionals that serve them. It is truly a gift to humankind!”
—Patti Britton, PhD, co-founder of SexCoachU.com, known worldwide as the Mother of Sex Coaching

“Joan Price is one of the smartest thinkers around about sex, regardless of your age—or hers!”
—Dan Savage

“With her characteristic clarity and insight, senior sexpert Joan Price zeros in on an experience that many people navigate but very few discuss: the experience of reclaiming sex after the death of a beloved. Sex After Grief is a profoundly compassionate, deeply personal, and exceptionally practical guidebook for moving forward after loss with both purpose and joy.”
—Lynn Comella, PhD and author of Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure

“Deeply, honestly sourced in her own experience but aware that other people's mileage may vary, this wise, compassionate, moving, sex-positive, and so necessary book breaks silence and lucidly tackles an all-too-common source of pain and shame. Author Joan Price has stitched ‘patches of [her] grief quilt’ together with other bereaved lovers' insights and experiences woven throughout. It will prove a source of comfort for those who are grieving, and advice and support for those who are ready to open back up to sex, pleasure and love.”
—Carol Queen PhD, Good Vibrations sexologist, co-founder of Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco

“I always love Joan’s books because they are real, honest, inspirational, and audacious. Sex After Grief will advise and surprise you, whatever your age, gender, or orientation.”

—Betty Dodson, PhD, author, artist, sexologist, and orgasm educator since the early 1970s

Editorial Reviews

Price’s latest book begins a much-needed conversation on what has long been considered a taboo question: what happens to your sex life after the death of a partner? Price offers valuable advice and guidance in an accessible writing style that brims with passion and compassion.” 
—Dr. Justin Lehmiller, author of Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life

“Joan Price has crossed taboo boundaries again—this time about the impact on sex of loss and grieving. All of us who cope with rebirthing sex after facing loss of a beloved wish we had a roadmap to follow. This book lights a path that sets us on the journey to recovery, with content that is relevant, necessary, and inspiring for grievers and the professionals that serve them. It is truly a gift to humankind!”
—Patti Britton, PhD, co-founder of SexCoachU.com, known worldwide as the Mother of Sex Coaching

“Joan Price is one of the smartest thinkers around about sex, regardless of your age—or hers!”
—Dan Savage

“With her characteristic clarity and insight, senior sexpert Joan Price zeros in on an experience that many people navigate but very few discuss: the experience of reclaiming sex after the death of a beloved. Sex After Grief is a profoundly compassionate, deeply personal, and exceptionally practical guidebook for moving forward after loss with both purpose and joy.”
—Lynn Comella, PhD and author of Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure

“Deeply, honestly sourced in her own experience but aware that other people's mileage may vary, this wise, compassionate, moving, sex-positive, and so necessary book breaks silence and lucidly tackles an all-too-common source of pain and shame. Author Joan Price has stitched ‘patches of [her] grief quilt’ together with other bereaved lovers' insights and experiences woven throughout. It will prove a source of comfort for those who are grieving, and advice and support for those who are ready to open back up to sex, pleasure and love.”
—Carol Queen PhD, Good Vibrations sexologist, co-founder of Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco

“I always love Joan’s books because they are real, honest, inspirational, and audacious. Sex After Grief will advise and surprise you, whatever your age, gender, or orientation.”
—Betty Dodson, PhD, author, artist, sexologist, and orgasm educator since the early 1970s

“We predict that this will be one of the most important books to have been published around death and dying. Joan's words are delivered with kindness and her advice is true to the heart. There are two things in life that can change you: the books you read and the people you meet. Do yourself a favour, grab a copy of Sex After Grief. We believe that this book is relevant to anyone who has experienced loss of a partner, not just from death, but also as a result of the end of a relationship.”
—The Spicy Boudior YouTube show

“I am so happy this book exists in the world. I think it is a solid resource written in a way that is inviting and not overwhelming. I hope libraries add it to their collections and grievers can find and be helped by this book.”
—Unlaced Librarian

From the Publisher