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Last updated: 7/2009
hed, Soulful Sexuality, now and as an older woman by dumping the medical mindset of Menopause and re-discovering your sensual AND sexual freedoms.
For years, menopause had been seen as medical, the signs were illness symptoms and part of growing old, condemning women to life without sex in granny dresses and rocking chairs.
Now, it¡¯s time to break down the myths, and learn the facts about active sexuality and aging gracefully. Discover greater confidence in yourself, as a sensual healthy woman of any age¡ now.
My experience of reading ?Sex, Age & Menopause? was of being elevated high on a wave of HG Ruby?s excitement and enthusiasm for her subject. The book is like an orgasm in itself, peppered with a delicious smorgasbord of poetry, information, inspiration, admonishments and beautifully constructed prose. I particularly enjoyed the forthright style of engaging the reader in a personal dialogue, sometimes teasing, and sometimes critical, but most times engaging and thought provoking.
Rochelle Grossman
Dear Friend,
Maybe you¡¯re experiencing Menopause, or maybe it¡¯s still a few years away. Whatever time of life you are living right now, no doubt you¡¯ve been lead to believe that a women¡¯s Change of Life, from as early as age 35, is fraught with symptoms.
Not just the hot flushes, absence of monthly cycles and dry vagina, but weight gain, restlessness, irritability and for many, sexual boredom. At the mention of the word ¡®menopause¡¯, no doubt you feel something akin to fear, and a crumbling confidence about womanhood and aging.
If your mother or grandmother, aunts or older sisters have experienced Menopause, or are living through this time of transition now, then you¡¯ve probably learned that every woman you know has these very same ¡®symptoms¡¯. So, yes you are completely forgiven for thinking that menopause is a medical condition of deterioration in a woman¡¯s physical, mental and sexual status!
Reinventing Your Menopause:
Separating Myth and Medical from Fact and Fiction
You may well experience the ending of monthly ¡®periods¡¯ along with the much-medicalized hot flushes and other hormonal fluctuations. (Some women don¡¯t have many signs at all, and chances are you could be one of them.) Like many of us, however, you may be wondering how much of this whole Menopause scene is about actual physical change¡ and what other influences have become tangled up in the ¡®diagnosis¡¯.
Your experience of Menopause could be affected by the information you received from the important women in your family and what you feel and think about it. The way you think can strongly influence your body¡¯s physical health.
Your mother, her mother, and the education they received - sexually, socially and psychologically - was controlled by the male-dominated medical practitioners of their time. It was all they had to pass on to you, peppered with their own personal anecdotes.
(Did you know that Menopause was associated with malingering, and with feigning illness to escape duties, by Philip Wylie, an author in the 1940¡¯s? Read more about this and other surprising facts, on page 24¡)
Hot flushes, weeping, bone density loss, weight gain, hysteria and hormonal fluctuations were all lumped together under the same convenient diagnosis. Even desires for normal sexual expression were considered part of the deterioration, and were treated as a symptom.
Discovering the myths created by the medical men in history, and the facts about healthy physical function on all levels could change your perception of Sex, Ageing, and Menopause, now and for the rest of your days.
Find out the shocking treatment by 19th century male doctors for their older female ¡®patients¡¯ diagnosed with hysteria¡ the same practice which would get today¡¯s doctor disbarred and have women in droves claiming criminal malpractice, (and find out how you could treat yourself with surprising enjoyment! Page 39)
Learn why confusing menopause with old age is bad for your health and destined to ruin the rest of your life. Page 14...
Discover the Eastern wisdoms on sex and sexuality and how their lessons could help you to experience deeper sexual fulfillment at any age. Page 44 ¡
Understand how the medical world of early times treated menopause based on belief systems about evil and witchery, and why you are still subject to this today. Page 17...
Read how the history of women¡¯s treatment from the 16th century through to modern times at the hands of misogynists (women-haters) dictates the social constraints affecting your everyday life now. Page 19¡
Reaching your Golden Years can be all that you make it:
A time of distress, anxiety and old-age illness, with menopause a time you dread and memories of sex linked only to falling pregnant.
Or a wondrous time of change, of freedom to discover a spiritual connection to womanhood, and time to make love with healthy appreciation without fear of making babies.
From Sexless Old Grandma to
Sexually Comfortable Grande Dame
Every way you treat your self, and everything society has conditioned you to believe about you as a woman will show in your mature years. The way you wear your hair, your clothing choices, your posture - how you stand, what you stand for - and how you speak, even what you speak about demonstrates what you¡¯ve come to believe over time.
You could easily identify with either of the above Grand images. Your habits, your way of thinking and of seeing yourself, your body and your health¡
Imagine how different your life would be, depending upon which image you choose, to express being a woman!!
The exciting news is that no matter what you believe now, you could be about to begin a whole new journey just by investing in your own education. That education, for women, about women is now available to you, produced by a woman - me - who understands:
How fearful the experience of menopause can seem when your doctor treats every sign of change as a medical ailment and conditions you to think you are declining into old age.
How frightening the stage of menopause may be to you if you are a modern older single woman who has not yet had children, not yet found your life partner and fear becoming an asexual and frumpy ¡°old maid¡±, destined to ¡®dry out¡¯ on the shelf.
How you feel guilty and ashamed of having sexual womanly feelings as an older woman, at a time when society condemns older women to grandma status with apparently no sexual agenda at all.
The anger and frustration you feel about living in a society where sex sells and it is most often the exposure of near-naked young women that marketers use to promote and advertise.
All of these issues and more are covered in an entertaining yet very affronting manifesto about women, today and over history. Each chapter deals with issues you face today, and those issues that affected your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother - generational experiences that would have been passed on to you, that affect you now, whether you like it or fear it.
Order now - ¡°Sex, Age & Menopause - a baby boomers manifesto.¡±
A book that makes me think differently about my own body and excited about future (and present) possibilities, sexual and beyond¡ points to an emerging longer middle age, which could be lived differently¡ challenges the binary between sexuality and spirituality and says that if we do our work, we can experience many benefits of sex, as a pathway to transcendence way into old age and beyond.
Adina Roth
Getting Educated About Sexuality and Menopause
Changes Your Ageing Experience
It doesn¡¯t mean learning the signs and symptoms your doctor wants you to think are all menopausal. Educating yourself means learning why society has, over hundreds of years and even longer, primed you to believe the very worst about your body, your health and your womanhood.
Learning all this and more about your sexuality, the social constraints that control your sexual expression, and even your experience of Menopause and the Change of Life couldn¡¯t be easier for you.
Within one complete manifesto, ¡°Sex, Age and Menopause¡±, are some extraordinary revelations and keen observations about the anatomy, sociology, sorcery, spirituality and scripture of Womankind.
It is possible that your experiences of sexuality, ageing and menopause are influenced directly by the choices you make - conscious or unconscious - about who you are, and the way you care for your health over time.
It is also possible that your experience of menopause and sexuality directly reflect what you believe - about your feminine self, your body, your womanhood, and your right to sexual expression.
There is no need to pack up your sexuality (with a wistful glance over your shoulder to better days) just because you are on the ¡°wrong¡± side of menopause. In fact, to do so is to deny who you are ¨C to the detriment of your own spirit.
That is the message of ¡°Sex, Age & Menopause¡±, a fascinating, buoyant, sometimes angry, always celebratory examination of what it should mean to be an older woman in the early 21st century.
Why did women once honoured become hags, fit in some centuries only for burning at the stake? How did our bodies ¨C and especially our sexuality ¨C get turned over to doctors who had scant understanding of how they actually worked?
Why did we end up with the choice of being smiling grannies or dried-up old crones? Why on earth do we accept that choice today?
There is no need to, as Hanna G Ruby invites you on a journey from Hecate to hysterectomy and way, way beyond¡ starting now and stretching into a more delightful future.
Rina Minervini
All the beliefs you have and the journeys you have taken as woman so far may all be wrapped up in fiction and myth. Your entire life could be bound and constrained by misconceptions and medical manipulation.
It¡¯s Time to Break Free
And Discover a New Road to Womanhood
Along the Pathway Through Menopause and Beyond
Take control of your world, and discover a soulful sexuality, graceful ageing and a meaningful Menopause that will boost your confidence in yourself, and change the way you think about being a woman, to something so much more enriching and embracing.
Order¡°Sex, Age & Menopause - a baby boomers manifesto.¡± today and begin to re-program your Menopausal AND sexual experience!
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Order now - ¡°Sex, Age & Menopause - a baby boomers manifesto.¡±
Let¡¯s make this journey together, through womanhood into menopause and beyond. The revelations and discoveries you¡¯ll uncover in every page of the Manifesto will enlighten you and lighten your spirit. Order your copy now. It¡¯s only US$14.95 and at such good value, you need to get in straight away, before the price goes up to US$34.95 - a bargain, when you consider how much your life could change for the better once you read ¡°Sex, Age & Menopause - a baby boomers manifesto.¡±
You may be years away from menopause - that¡¯s great! It means you have time to explore and change any negative influences that may be impacting on your expectation of your menopause.
If you¡¯re already experiencing this magical change of life and it¡¯s not feeling so magical, then you need to read this, to clear the slate and unlock your true womanly potential.
Get in now and discover Soulful Sexuality - your rightful experience.
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