The New Love and Sex after 60

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Times have already changed since we wrote the first edition of Love and Sex After 60 in 1976. Recently, Ballentine Books published the fourth revised edition, now titled The New Love and Sex After 60. A quarter of a century ago, the subject made a lot of people uncomfortable-sex for older people was a taboo topic.

Some 25 years have passed, and the subject is no longer taboo. The sexuality of older people has become a generally accepted fact of life, helped along by public figures including former Senator Robert Dole, who openly discussed his erectile problems (connected with prostate cancer) and his relief in being able to do something to resolve them. Great writers-like Gabriel …