Book description
Women over fifty are "the invisible woman" in American culture. In a society that reveres youth - and particularly young, sexy women - women over fifty fade into the shadows. Yet, for many women at mid-life, this is a time of flowering and coming into one's own, sexually and otherwise.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Unmasked as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this anthology by women over fifty because it offers such a wide range of truths about our experiences with sex and intimate relationships.
More than fifty essays and poems cover a variety of honest reflections on the exquisite, the good, the not-so-good, and the challenging parts of older women relating sexually to men, to women, and to themselves.
Feelings expressed range from the ambivalence, disappointment, and ecstasy of dating, to the pleasures of being single, to the joy of long-term sex and commitment, to the acceptance of the sometimes sudden movement between these states. Can be read in…
From Carolyn's list on that model older women unabashedly enjoying sex.
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