Sex and the Aging Male: Understanding and Coping with Change - Softcover

Birch Ph.D., Robert W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570744823 ISBN 13: 9781570744822

Publisher: PEC Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

This book is for men of all ages, but especially those forty years of age and older. The author takes an honest look at being a sexual male and at the inevitable changes life brings. This retired marital and sex therapist then presents a "fail-safe" philosophy of sex that is good for a lifetime.

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About the Author

Robert W. Birch, Ph.D., is a retired relationship and sex therapist, having practiced as a psychologist for 35 years. In his retirement he writes sexuality self-help books and articles, maintains two educational web sites, and answers sex and relationship e-mailed questions. He is active in his local Mental Health Association and as a volunteer for the county Hospice.

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We men describe ourselves in many ways - by the work we have done, the money we have made, the children we have fathered, and, for many, our ability to perform sexually. The ability to share a full, rich and mutually satisfying erotic experience with a special partner has been the essence of our identity as a sexual male. There was a time, however, when it was generally assumed that a man's sexuality would end as he entered the fifth decade of his life, if not sooner. Beyond that arbitrary limit, a man who continued to think about sex would run the risk of being labeled a "dirty old man" by those younger than he. It was assumed that women, by nature, were inevitably less sexual than their male partners and, moreover, once they entered menopause would quickly lose any sexual desire they might have had. As bodies bulged and sagged, and hair grayed and thinned, both the aging male and aging female were apparently assumed to be thinking of matters far less erotic.

Many books have been written on the topic of the various pills, props, and pumps available for the man with an unreliable penis, and there are books that spell out in great detail the multiple physical resons why this valued, but rebellious, aging male appendage misbehaves as it does. There are also volumes of statistics resulting from seemingly endless sex surveys, studies and inventories. However, I am neither a physician nor a sex researcher and I will not, therefore, repeat what might be found in these prestigious scientific and academic resources. Rather, it is my intent to present a more human, practical, and even playful look at sex and the aging male.

About this edition

• Publisher: PEC Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1570744823
• ISBN 13: 9781570744822
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160