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SEX & INTIMACYFor a lot of women, this is the section of the website nobody quite talks about. The libido that has gone. The touch that has become too much. The long relationship where the conversation about all of it has gone cold. The same body, with a partner who is also a woman, also in it. Or the single life at fifty that comes with a body that has its own opinions now.
You can read these pages in any order, or none. Whoever you are sleeping next to, or not sleeping next to, you are welcome here.
By anyone. Not even the grandchildren. Not your closest friend. Not your partner. The body that has, for a while, become a no-go zone for affection, and what to do with that.
The libido that has quietly vanished. Why this isn’t a personality change. What oestrogen and testosterone actually have to do with it. And what can help.
The long relationship, the mismatch, the blame loop. The difference between what they mean by intimacy and what you assume they mean. The conversation neither of you knows how to have.
Two women, two midlives, and the conversation no leaflet has written for you. When you’re both in it. When only one of you is. When the assumption of automatic understanding quietly breaks.
Plain English. Vaginal dryness. Pain during sex. Pelvic floor. Vaginal oestrogen. Lubricants that aren’t terrible. How to have the GP conversation without flinching.
For the women going through all of this without a partner. Dating again, not dating, the body’s strangeness either way. A different shape entirely, and just as worth talking about.
SAM is here any time, day or night. No agenda, no judgement.
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