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In Praise of Post-Menopausal Zest

Many women see the end of their fertile years as liberating, like a ‘second youth’ — so why are we sold a different narrative?

Almost everything I learned about sex came from books on my parents’ bedroom bookshelf, among them the 1969 best-seller “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask).”