{"product_id":"senior-sex-the-elephant-in-ivan-gulas-9798295636912","title":"Senior Sex, The Elephant In The Room: The Elephant In The Room","description":"\u003cp\u003eCouples lying awake at 2 a.m., each pretending to be asleep. Widows untouched for years because no one told them it was permitted. Doctors who will discuss anything but this. A culture that pretends sexuality has an expiration date - when bodies, hearts, and the longing for connection all say otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eSenior Sex: The Elephant in the Room\u003c\/em\u003e, clinical psychologist Ivan Gulas confronts the conversation that medicine, marriage, and modern culture have all refused to have. Drawing decades of clinical practice - and on his own life as a man in his late seventies, married for fifty-seven years - Gulas writes with the directness of someone who has run out of patience for the silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help guide. It offers no techniques and no prescriptions. What it offers is rarer: a vocabulary for the questions older adults have been carrying alone for years, and a clinical framework - the Comfort Model and Stress Model of monogamy - that helps couples stop blaming each other for what is actually a structural collision between long marriages and aging bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross twenty-six chapters, Gulas takes up topics most books on aging refuse to address: the biology no one wants to acknowledge, the asymmetry of desire when one partner can no longer participate, the aftermath of prostate surgery and pelvic pain, the loneliness of widowhood, the ethics of seeking sexual fulfillment outside a marriage when one partner is permanently incapacitated, and the conversations adult children would prefer not to have about their aging parents' inner lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the empathy of a clinician and the honesty of a participant, \u003cem\u003eSenior Sex\u003c\/em\u003e is for the couple who have run out of words for what they have lost; for the widow who is healthy and vital and starving for touch; for the husband whose body has betrayed him; for the wife who still wants what her partner can no longer give. It is also for the doctors, therapists, nurses, social workers, and clergy who serve older adults and have no idea where to begin the conversation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ivan Gulas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295636912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Salisbury \u0026amp; York\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Ivan Gulas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874667999487,"sku":"9798295636912","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/senior-sex-the-elephant-in-ivan-gulas-9798295636912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}