Ageless Erotica

by Joan Price

Ageless Erotica is a steamy anthology of erotic stories and memoir essays written for a mature audience by writers over the age of 50. Edited by senior sex expert and advocate Joan Price , this collection is full of erotica seniors can relate to, embracing the agelessness of sexuality while still encompassing the changes that accompany aging. Some selections are tender and loving, while others are edgy and kinky. But whether characters are going solo, having spicy sex with partners they love and have loved for decades, or engaging in casual encounters, every story included in these pages aims to arouse and to rejoice in the sensual side of aging. A groundbreaking collection of erotica for seniors, Ageless Erotica is a stimulating celebration of the many pleasures of "well-seasoned” sex.

Genres: Erotica, Short Stories

336 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2013

About the author

I am a senior sex author, speaker, and advocate for ageless sexuality. My books include:

* Sex after Grief: Navigating Your Sexuality after Losing Your Beloved (coming Summer 2019);
* The Ultimate Guide to Sex After 50: How to Maintain – or Regain! – a Spicy, Satisfying Sex Life;
* Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex – winner of Outstanding Self-Help Book 2012 from American Society of Journalists and Authors and 2012 Book Award from American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists;
* Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty;
* Ageless Erotica: a steamy erotica anthology by authors age 50+
* The Anytime, Anywhere Exercise Book: 300+ Quick and Easy Exercises You Can Do Whenever You Want!

Please visit my website at http://www.joanprice.com and my zesty blog about sex and aging at http://www.NakedAtOurAge.com/. For news, views, and events related to senior sex and relationships, subscribe at http://eepurl.com/cx2Nab.

Reviews

[Tim Null · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved these stories about old people in love. But don't tell anyone. It'll be our little secret.

[Rachel Kramer Bussel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ageless Erotica is truly ageless; I'm 38 and this is one of the most soulful erotica collections I've read (and I've read a lot!). It succeeds because, even when humorous, such as Nancy Weber's "Something Borrowed, Something Blue," these stories have a ring of truthfulness about both the highs and lows of aging. From divorce to concessions to the physical downsides of aging, these characters find new ways to appreciate their sexuality and their bodies, as well as their lovers'. Here's a wonderful sentence from Weber that illustrates this: "And suddenly I was on my knees, and my tongue was all over her blueness, and my lips were playing wild music on it, and beneath my layers of tailored gray, my _____ was pulsing in tempo." (You can guess what the word I skipped is.) I especially appreciated the way long-term relationships are treated here, with care and the admission that they can change and grow over time. A hot, sexy and memorable read that is indeed for all ages who want to appreciate some quality erotica.

[Adriana Kraft · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you’re under thirty or even in your forties, you might never pick up this book, but you should. Ageless Erotica, edited by Joan Price, is a steamy collection of erotica by and about men and women over fifty. The book flies in the face of the notion that our sex lives have to diminish as we age, or that if we stay sexually active, we shouldn’t talk or write about it. The stories offer hope for those under fifty and will bring smiles of recognition, laughter, arousal, and delight to readers old enough to identify.

I was impressed by the wide range of stories, characters, plots, themes and creative sex acts across the collection. There’s solo sex, same and opposite gender sex, fantasy sex, married sex, pick-up sex, sex with a paid professional, a touch of kink – a little something for everyone, demonstrating that just as sex doesn’t have to stop as we age, neither does creativity and imagination. We’re told the authors range in age from fifty to eighty, and I take encouragement from that!

I did have some favorites. In “Invitation to Lunch,” Donna George Storey offers a touching erotic lunch break with a married couple, spiced with a dash of fantasy exhibitionism. “Sex with him is like truly fine old wine, each year adding more complexity and mystery.”

The theme of carrying a secret pleasure turned up in both “Other People’s Stuff,” by Susan St. Aubin, and ”Jaguar Dreams,” by Evvy Lynn. If you’ve ever wondered why old people are smiling to themselves, “Jaguar Dreams” will forever change your answer.

I also loved the open, tender married relationship in D.L. King’s “Mr. Smith, Ms. Jones will see you now.” Mr. Smith’s wife is never on the page, but always in his thoughts through each iteration of kink delivered by Ms. Jones, whose first appointment was gifted to him by the wife unable to enjoy the kink she knows he needs. This story captures so beautifully the rewards an open relationship can deliver to the primary couple, under the best of circumstances.

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having lived through a generation when most of the vocabulary of sex was for plain brown wrappers and book stores apparently operated by and for rodents and insects, ours is a brave new world indeed. Graphic, salacious depictions of many multiples of partners, gay vampire, humans with werewolves and even dinosaurs are never more than a few keyboard clicks away. Some day I will look to see how a truly creative mind can generate erotica between shape shifters and furries. Hmm Shape shifters, truly one size fits all. What seem to be the last bastion of markets for erotica are for those of us past any legitimate description as middle age. At 50 one can bluff that that is the middle of 100, a realistic life span; by 60 not so much so.

Which brings me to Ageless Erotica, Edited by Joan Price. I am finding that anything related to erotic if at least edited by a woman automatically gets elevated from just dirty old man porn. That said, Ms Price a longtime educator and advocate for sex after 60, has assembled 31 short stories of people long assumed to have aged out of their desires, enjoying the fact that they have and can live out their desires.

The good news seems to be that the women have full possession of their sexual selves. These women know what they enjoy and how to get it. These ladies have out lived their body issues and their pretenses of being too innocent for that. Their confidence in themselves and knowledge of the choices make all of them that much more desirable than those so much firmer, fresh from the gym women who worry more about semi-existing bulges or less than huge breasts, than having or sharing pleasure.

For the men it is more of an honest mixed bag. Dependence of that over priced pill is taken for granted. Thou the women also tend to need some applied assistance. The addition of toys is never a matter of embarrassment. Old reliable, mini me is now just old. One of the most interesting short stories (Endless Praise, Endless Love) is also a case for the sex surrogate who provides a safe service to an Alzheimer’s patient. It seems that sometimes the loss of memory leaves the man with many amorous impulses and makes of him an easier mark for more predatory females. Not entirely a sexy image for the sexagenarian, but we are writing to the real circle of life.

From my limited research there is not a wide selection of choices for those of us who find the always perfect bodies, writhing in ecstasy too predictable. Ageless Erotica spans a wider horizon of choices than we may have assumed would still be available. All are well written and all provide hope as well as stimulation for the imagination. However some aging parts may have varied in their dependability, the imagination can get richer with age.

[Roz Warren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Because my review of this book contains explicit language, I am posting a link to it rather than posting the review here.

http://www.humortimes.com/17081/joan-...

[Carolyn Lee Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hot scenes of senior sex!
This hot and sexy collection of erotic fiction and memoir is both a source of arousal and a mesmerizing glimpse of the range of sexual activities that seniors imagine and carry out. From the slow sex of long-term lovers, to a hot encounter with a stranger and her blue dildo in a department store changing room, these stories sizzle and burn. They expand our view of what is sexually possible as we age, and would be an inspiring and stimulating bedside reference for singles and couples of all ages.

[Chantal]

I’m not the right audience for this book. I can’t give it a rating because I read the first story then did not finish the book. I think it’s great that this exists and may pick it up in a decade or two but for now it doesn’t captivate me.