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Strategies for Staying Sexual After Menopause

By Rebecca Chalker

August 25, 2009 - 7:00am

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Women's health advocates vigorously question unrealistic projections for sexuality and aging - bleak sexual desert or pharmaceutical Niagara - and have identified helpful strategies for maintaining and enhancing sexuality after menopause.

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Straight, Single, and Sixty: The Truth About Dating After 55

By Katherine Anne Forsythe

August 19, 2009 - 7:00am

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Successful dating and partnering over fifty-five can and does happen for both sexes - and not just for the post-graduate cheerleader and football captain.

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Viagra Man, A Decade Later

By Meika Loe

August 7, 2009 - 8:57am

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Thanks to Viagra, mankind now stands at a crossroads: either invest in that teenage erection - or in a broader, richer definition of manhood.

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Older, Wise, Sexually Smarter: Promoting Sexuality Education for Mid and Later Life

By Peggy Brick

August 3, 2009 - 11:35am

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Sexual re-education? Join the new sexual revolution, Brick says, the one that challenges old mores and encourages men and women to explore new ways of being sexual as they age.

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Oh my God - Older People Have Sex?!

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

July 13, 2009 - 1:32pm

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Surprise! Older Americans still have sex - whether married or single. And in order to ensure seniors' sexual health is addressed, health care providers and society at large need to become more culturally competent.

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How Are Your Orgasms, Mom?

By ann whidden, National Sexuality Resource Center

July 13, 2009 - 7:00am

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From birth to death, we are all sexual beings. We have a hard enough time acknowledging this when it comes to children, but when it comes to aging adults, the silence is deafening.

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