Resources Categories: Intimacy and Connection

A holistic sexuality education curriculum for older adults. Comprehensive and progressive, this program addresses sexuality with sensitivity and respect for older adults’ wisdom and life experience. Unitarian Universalist Association, 2019.

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

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

Explores reclaiming sexuality after loss, sharing stories and practical advice for navigating intimacy and self-care during grief. Mango, 2021.

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

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

This book empowers readers to embrace their sexuality at any age, fostering self-care, open conversations, and overcoming obstacles to enjoy a fulfilling sex life. Independently published, 2023.

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 ...

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.

How does enmeshment with a parent lead to sexual brokenness? And how can we heal from it? In this episode, Dr. Ken Adams will inspire you to break free from inappropriate loyalty so you can regain your passion and purpose in life. Dr. Ken Adams is a world-renowned therapist and expert on enmeshment, covert incest, shame, abuse, and sex addiction. Lea ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...