Sex After Grief

Joan Price is known by the media as the voice of senior sex. In 2018 she was interviewed by more than 30 publications, radio shows, and podcasts, including New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, USA Today, AARP.com, Newsweek en Español, Woman’s Day (Australia), CBC Canada, Instituto de Longevidade (Brazil), Wysokie Obcasy (Poland), Savage Love (Dan Savage’s column), and New York City News Service, among others. Her monthly “Sex at Our Age” Q&A column for SeniorPlanet.org has been running since 2014.  Price is an international speaker on senior sex. Her recent presentations include: Keynote speaker “Let’s Talk about Sex” conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2015. Six additional speeches in Australia in Melbourne, Sydney, and Bendigo. Featured speaker “Age of Happiness” weeklong event, Russian audience in Budva, Montenegro, 2016. Featured speaker National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly (NICE) Knowledge Exchange, Toronto, 2017.  Featured speaker “Naked at Our Age” Virgin Islands Caregivers’ Association conference, St. Croix and St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, 2018.  Upcoming: “Let’s Talk about Sex and Aging” at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2019. Price regularly presents senior sex workshops at conferences, sexuality shops, and organizations, including AASECT (American Assn of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists), CatalystCon* (multiple times), Woodhull Sexual Freedom Summit (multiple times), Kaiser Permanente, Full Circle Festival of Aging (VT), Smitten Kitten (Minneapolis, multiple times), Pleasure Chest (NY and LA, multiple times), Good Vibrations (SF, multiple times), and others. *CatalystCon awarded Price the 2015 Catalyst Award for “inspiring exceptional conversations in sexuality.” She is the author of: The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50: How to Maintain – or Regain! – a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life; Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex – winner of Outstanding Self-Help Book 2012 from American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and 2012 Book Award from American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT); Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty.   Joan Price calls herself an advocate for ageless sexuality. She has been called other things by the media: “senior sexpert,” “the beautiful face of senior sex,” and—her favorite—“wrinkly sex kitten.” She is a collaborator, script writer, and narrator for the “Guide to Wicked Sex: Senior Sex” with Jessica Drake for Wicked Pictures, shooting in April 2019 Her award-winning blog about sex & aging can be found at http://www.NakedAtOurAge.com

Joan Price is the preeminent authority on senior sex and writes on reclaiming sexualty after loss and grief.#1 New Release in Sacred Sexuality, Winner of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Writing Award in Service/Self-Help ─ Reclaim Your Sexuality After LossAn Honest Approach to Hard Questions: Sex is complicated at the best of times—but when we’re overcome by grief, it’s especially mysterious and confusing. How do we nurture ourselves as sexual beings when we’re grieving the death of a partner? Why does taking care of ourselves sexually matter at a time when we’d rather hide under the covers and wail? How do we know when it’s time to open ourselves to the sexual phase of a new relationship? And how do we do it? A Grief Book like No Other: Sex after Grief is the first book to address sex and grief together and treat sex as a normal, positive, life-affirming part of emerging from such a difficult time. Joan Price, the top expert on senior sex, draws on her own experiences as a widow since 2008, when she lost the love of her life to cancer. She shares her raw grief journey, sexual reawakening (and the many stumbles along the way), and attempts to dip back into dating, along with excellent advice on handling each step. Recovery on Your Own Timeline, in Your Own Way: As Price says, there’s no right or wrong method or timeline for bringing our sexuality back into into our lives, whether it’s with our own hands, a friend with benefits, a hook-up, a new companion, or any combination. Sex After Grief includes a variety of people’s personal stories from folks of all genders and orientations. Some jumped into sex quickly. Some took years. Some withdrew from sexual possibility. No one was wrong, and no choice is defective or shameful. Sex After Grief includes: Inspiring tales of how different people brought sex back into their lives after the loss of their spouse or partner Guidelines for dating again and getting sexual with a new person Reasons that solo sex is healthy and can be the path to feeling sexual again Advice from therapists, grief counselors, and sex coaches Self-help takeaways for creating an action plan Readers of Modern Loss, The Grief Recovery Handbook and Second Firsts will grow from and appreciate Sex After Grief.