Sex After Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality After Losing Your Beloved

Author: Joan Price

Sex is complicated at the best of times—but when we're overcome by grief, it's especially complicated and confusing. How do we nurture ourselves as sexual beings when we're grieving the death of a partner? How do we know when it's time to open ourselves to a new sexual connection? Sex After Grief is the first book to address sex and grief together and treat sex as a normal, life-affirming part of emerging from such a difficult time.

Joan Price, the preeminent expert on senior sex, draws on her own experiences as a widow since 2008, when she lost the love of her life to cancer. She shares her raw grief journey and sexual reawakening (and the many stumbles along the way), along with excellent advice on handling each step. Sex After Grief includes a variety of helpful personal stories from folks of all genders and orientations. With heart, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Joan Price helps you reclaim your sexual pleasure after great loss.

"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

"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."—Patti Britton, PhD, co-founder of SexCoachU

"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

"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