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Sex
& Testosterone  Aging &Sex Sue:
Ruth Jacobowitz, noted health author of 4 other books, has written another
terrific book specifically for women. Her book 150 Most-Asked
Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy, and Intimacy is a
complete and thorough guide for having better sex and more intimacy into midlife and
beyond.
 Ruth's enthusiasm and expertise is clear through out her book. 150 Most-Asked
Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy is complete with the
latest research and includes the personal experiences from woman all across the United
States. Ms.Jacobowitz's national lectures have attracted thousands of women looking
for answers to questions about sex after age 35. Ruth not only provides valuable
answers but also encourages us be participants in our lives, not to buy into the myths of
aging.
Ms. Jacobowitz advocates that sex should be alive and well in everyone's life, especially
for those of us in midlife!
Sue:
Thanks for joining me today.
Your book 150 Most-Asked
Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy is a wonderful guide and
support system for sex and intimacy beyond age 35. I love your enthusiasm and the
hope that you give your readers. What a gift your book is!
Sue:
Ruth, in your book, you have some very fascinating insights in a style that is easy for
women to embrace. How did you do the research to support your ideas?
 Ruth:
This Is Not Your Usual Book About Sex!
This book is unique!
It is neither Freudian nor Jungian. It is not Erica Jongian. This books contains
the 150 most-asked questions about midlife sex, love, and intimacy gathered from thousands
of women and the carefully researched answers to these questions. It shares the
contents of the interviews that I conducted with women about their sex lives at midlife
and later, but not their identities. It is explicit in detailing their desires and
their disappointments, their pleasure and their pain, their sexual needs and their search
for solutions, just as they are related to me.
One of the strengths of this book is that it is written by a medical journalist and a
former hospital administrator. It is important, I think, that I do not work in the
fields that impact these subjects, but rather that this is a woman to woman book, written
without medical jargon or medical dogma or bias, although many experts were consulted and
gave freely of their time and expertise.
The foundation of this book is built from many materials. Following as it does my
first two books in this series, 150 Most-Asked Questions About Menopause and 150 Most-
Asked Questions About Osteoporosis, both published in 1993, it incorporates the results
from fifteen thousand questionnaires and hundreds of written questions from the women who
attended the seminars and programs in which I have participated over the past four years.
These questionnaires all included questions about changes in sexual desire and
about pain with intercourse caused by thinning and drying of vaginal tissue.
It also includes responses from fifteen hundred new questionnaires that dealt specifically
with questions about midlife sex, love, and intimacy gathered from women who attended the
programs held during 1992, 1993, and 1994.
To broaden my base of respondents, a number of menopause support-group leaders around the
country kindly agreed to distribute the survey to their members.
Sue:
In your book 150 Most-Asked
Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy, you address how sex need not
fall by the wayside as we age. As our population ages and more and more of us are living
longer how do we keep our sexual selves going?
See the answer:
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150 Most-Asked Questions About Midlife Sex, Love, and Intimacy:
What Women and Their Partners Really Want to Know
by Ruth S. Jacobowitz
The author, Ruth Jacobowitz speaks: I wrote this book to help
women and men understand and work within the changes the occur biologically and
psychologically at midlife. The 150 Most-Asked Questions are the top questions asked by
the more than 5000 people surveyed for the book by questionnaire and the many many persons
interviewed. The answers to those questions come from experts in the seven fields that
work with our sexual selves: endocrinology, urology, human sexuality, geriatrics,
psychiatry, gynecology, and psychology. My goal with this book is to educate couples about
how we age and empower them to get the help they need in order to achieve a first-rate
second half of adult life.
Meet the author:
Ruth S. Jacobowitz
"The Estrogen Answer Book"
Interview & FREE excerpt
hosted by Sue Spataro, RN, BSN
 She was vice president of Cleveland's Mt. Sinai Medical Center for
20 years and a medical journalist, as well as the author of many books covering menopause,
estrogen therapy, osteoporosis and a practical guide to midlife sex, love and intimacy.
See the cyber-interview where Ruth shares some of her views on women's health with host
Sue Spataro
The Estrogen
Answer Book:
150 Most-Asked Questions About Hormone Replacement Therapy
by Ruth S. Jacobowitz
The Estrogen Answer Book grew out of author Ruth Jacobowitz's own
experience with taking the hormone to tackle hot flashes, as well as out of the question
she heard most from women as she lectured around the country: "Should I take
estrogen?" The book describes the potential benefits as well as risks of hormone
replacement therapy. And it gives the nitty-gritty of the different formulations of
estrogen out there, from pills to patches, vaginal creams to estrogen rings.
Meet the author
Susan Rako, MD
author of "The Hormone of Desire"
Interview
& Book excerpt
hosted by Sue Spataro, RN, BSN
 Dr. Rako discusses her thoughts on testosterone deficiency in women.
The Hormone of Desire is a very complete and thoughtful book. She separates the long held
myths about testosterone and women from the powerful reality. Women's sexuality is
beginning to get the attention it deserves and Dr. Rako's book is a long awaited and much
anticipated resource.
I'm Not in the Mood : What Every Woman Should Know About
Improving Her Libido
by Judith Reichman, MD
Review by: Sue Spataro
How many times have you turned to your hot in the pants hubby and said "Not
tonight honey, I'm not in the mood" ? |
