Still Doing It

By: Blank, Joani

Book Overview

An empowering account of sexual intimacy in later years. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094020827X
• ISBN13: 9780940208278
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Down There Press
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

For all ages

An excellent book for those who want to discover the truth about sex in real life. It helps dispell the myth that sex is only for those under the age of 30. In fact it is a refreshing example of what sex can and should be. For those younger you might discover what real sex and real fun is by reading some of the stories. Yes as one reviewer noted some of the piece read like a Playbiy or Penthouse "letters" column (how interesting the good Dr admits he knows of this) but so what? Fact is when it comes to talking about sex, most Americans still have a two ways of talking. Either in a kinky manner or talking in a round about manner.Any book that is blunt and spits the facts out is great, in my opinion. And this is one book my local library will get!

beautiful, honest, erotic

A beautiful, honest, erotic book -- I was struck all the way through it by how well all of the writers know their sexuality, and how well they work at taking care of whatever their kind of sexuality may be. It made me wish to be older, to be free to know, and say, exactly what I want and do not want, to be willing to look less than perfect and young and still parade in the nude, and to recognize exactly what matters in taking care of myself and others.

Sexuality of men and women over the age of 60

In Still Doing It, Joani Blank has gathered an impressive roster of contributors writing on the subject of their sexuality as men and women over the age of 60. Tender, funny, frustrating, spiritual, each contributor offers a bold and reassuring description of how they left behind years of celibacy, dealt with medical issues, and overcame society's aversion to open sexual communication to achieve pleasure, satisfaction, and sexual fulfilment with new lovers or life-long partners. Each of these personal essays is a reassuring model for others facing similar situations brought on by maturity and a desire for continued personal growth and expression within the framework of what human sexuality has to offer throughout the so-called "Golden Years" of life.

Doing It Exuberantly

First, I'm one of the contributors to this lovely book, so I'm not entirely neutral. That said, I've read Still Doing It from cover to cover now, a little at breakfast every morning for a week, and enjoyed it immensely. It's a book I'll go back to. The individual accounts of sex, adventure, relationship, and erotic playfulness would do credit to 20 year-olds, but these writers are in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Perhaps what I liked best was the sense of easy truthfulness, a precious gift in any conversation about sex: nobody's straining to prove anything, and there's no prudish self-censorship, either. We hear from men and women who arrived at their erotic discoveries in older age (first orgasm decades after menopause) and those who carried an exceptional sense of sexual engagement into old age from early youth. We find swingers in their seventies and contented solitaries with vibrators, old marrieds and new sweethearts, the conventional and the kinky. Along with America's bizarre prudishness about sex comes our insistence that children and old folks have no sex at all. Maybe this playful book will disabuse us of part of that notion. Love and sex are an ocean we swim in, and some of us geezers are still happily splashing across the Channel. Here's a quote from one account, "My Night with Zorba:" "Confused, excited and dazed, I allowed Nikos to lead me behind the thick hedge. We would be well hidden, but I had never done anything like this before. My head was spinning. My body shook in spasms. My labia opened like a flower . . ." Many thanks to Joani Blank for yet another delicious contribution to the literature of honest, uninhibited sexuality!

Still Doing It a winner

I found the book inspiring. I am 70. My partner is 75 and we are still doing it and still find "it" exciting. We know that sexual activitiy hasn't decreased. In fact we get better. We are more imaginative. We are slower and deeper in touch with the here and now. The book shows we are not the only ones. The book is informative, but even more, it is fun to read.I am glad the word is out the the "elderly" are not only wise while still doing it, but, like fine wine, get better with age. My specialty in the field of psychology is sexology, so I speak both personally and professionally.Thomas Matola, Ph.D.