Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved

by Joan Price

Overview

Reconnect with Your Sexuality After Loss

Being open about sex can be difficult, especially after the loss of a partner. Join author Joan Price as she navigates sex, romance, and mourning in her bestselling book, Sex After Grief.

Should I take this second chance? Exploring sex after a partner’s passing can seem impossible. With a lot of emotions and memories to still process, the thought of moving on makes many widows and widowers feel uncertain. But what if you had the clarity you need to make that decision? This revolutionary grief book covers every question you have about restarting your life with a new sex partner. Sharing author Joan Price’s own experience surrounding love and death, Sex After Grief will guide you in going forward with a piece of yourself that was once tied to your loved one.

Embrace your healing journey the way you want. Everyone’s experience with sex and grief is never the same, as many take different steps in finding what they want. Some jump into a new relationship while others withdraw from intimacy altogether. Sex After Grief features various stories about being sexually active again and how their decisions brought them the sense of peace that they needed. By debunking hurtful myths about sex and dating, you will discover how sexuality can go hand in hand with mourning no matter what you choose.

Inside, you’ll also find helpful tips such as:

• Grief advice from sexual health professionals
• What does being sex-positive mean to you
• Why sex can be comforting for your emotions and needs
• Recognizing your new boundaries in relationships going forward

So, if you enjoyed books such as The In-Between, Sex Talks, or Wild Hope, then 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 is a writer and advocate known for several award-winning books about age-positive sexuality. Starting as a freelance writer for health and fitness publications, she later began breaking stereotypes by writing about how older-life individuals had active sex lives. She would soon meet her husband Robert, who inspired her to write her bestselling book, Better Than I Ever Expected. Robert passed away in 2008 from cancer, motivating Joan to explore mortality and sexuality in her books. Today, she continues to present workshops, webinars, and interviews about the joy of sex and aging. Joan currently lives in Sebastopol, CA with her second husband.

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