Resources Categories: Intimacy and Connection

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Explores how race, gender, and class shaped sexual behavior over the past 200 years. University of Chicago Press, 2012.

In the history of sexual anatomy, the clitoris has long been dismissed, demeaned and misunderstood. Here is a view of the clitoris you’ve probably never seen. https://www.scientificamerican.com/video/the-clitoris-a-reveal-two-millennia-in-the-making/

A former pastor and seminary president shares inspiring stories of couples finding love in their sixties, offering a hopeful perspective. Nurturing Faith, 2023.

Promotes a healthy, pleasure-based approach to sexuality for aging couples, challenging myths and emphasizing intimacy over performance and stereotypes. Routledge, 2022.

Offers strategies for renewing sexual desire and intimacy in relationships. Routledge, 2020.

Offers accessible guidance on managing erectile dysfunction through natural remedies, diet, and lifestyle changes. Independently published, 2015.

A practical, approachable guide with tips on enjoying intimacy at any age. Cleis Press, 2014.

Babies are Born Aware and Expecting a Relationship Between babies and their parents, social and emotional intelligence and connection will grow through physical contact (such as skin-to-skin contact) and though speech and language. The Trajectory for Good Development Involves Many Factors The capacity to love is a reciprocal trust building bet ...

This book examines consensual nonmonogamy among elders, addressing relationship dynamics, joys, challenges, and aging complexities like caregiving, health issues, and retirement. Rowman & Littlefield, 2022.

A fun and comprehensive sex guide with explicit, practical advice. There are illustrated chapters on almost every aspect of lovemaking, and its style - a kind of Rough Guide to Sex - will appeal and communicate to almost everybody. Goofy Foot Press, 2015.

The easiest way to improve your relationship is to pay attention to your partner during life’s small, everyday moments. This video shows you how. As relationship researcher Logan Ury explains, you can choose to TURN TOWARDS your partner in these moments and accept their bids to connect, or TURN AWAY and ignore their bids. Every time you choose to tur ...

Answers many questions people over 60 might have about living a fulfilling sensual life. Seal Press, 2011.

Lubricants increase pleasure. Your genital skin is very sensitive. It cradles the nerve endings that allow you to experience touch and other sensations. And although skin is strong, it can be harmed by vigorous rubbing. Sexual intimacy usually includes friction, and often the body doesn’t have enough wetness or protection to last for an entire intimate ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q64hTNEj6KQ If you've ever watched porn, and if you've ever had sex, you know that the two are very different. But what are the differences, specifically? Whet your appetite and watch the video!

Offers a meditative approach to sex, promoting deep connection and sustainability into old age. Destiny Books, 2011.

“Relationships between Characteristics of Autism Spectrum Disorder and BDSM Behaviors.” Boucher, Naomi Rachel. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/handle/20.500.14291/201533.

Libido is your unique, personal, sexual psychic force. Because we are only semiconscious of this force, our conscious minds are not completely in control of the psychic force . Although we are always in control of how we act in response to libido, it is the less-than-conscious aspect that accounts for why it feels pushy, or external. People use the word ...