
Sex, desire and menopause...
Last night I was reading the chapter on intimacy and sex in "The Wisdom of Menopause". The author, Christiane Northrup, was talking about attitudes to sex, and the inequalities between research into the experiences of men and women. Sadly, I was not surprised to learn that there had been an enormous amount of research into men's experience of intimacy in later years and almost none into women's experience. However, the bit that struck me most, was the discussion of our experi