Intimacy With Impotence: The Couple's Guide To Better Sex After Prostate Disease

by Ralph Alterowitz, Barbara Alterowitz

Erectile dysfunction is a frequent consequence of prostate cancer and other prostate disease treatments. Though unwelcome and embarrassing, it doesn't have to end a couple's sex life. Both informative and practical, Intimacy with Impotence gives couples cause for hope. It discusses impotence in lay terms, provides information on the commercial therapies and medications both available and being researched now, and gives practical advice about lovemaking-from getting in the mood to commonsense suggestions to erection-less satisfaction. Written with complete honesty and compassion by a prostate cancer survivor and his wife, this is the essential resource for couples trying to reestablish intimacy and sex in the face of impotence.

240 pages, Paperback

First published May 27, 2004

About the author

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Ralph Alterowitz with his wife Barbara, experts in intimacy, provide an entertaining, informative and positive way for couples to revive their love life. In his 20 years on the road to extensive work in intimacy, Mr. Alterowitz has been a corporate executive, entrepreneur, educator, author and lecturer in health care and business.

Since being treated for prostate cancer in 1995, he has become one of the nation’s leading voices in calling for more support and services for prostate cancer patients and their families. He is the founding vice-chair of the National Prostate Cancer Coalition (NPCC) and with affiliated with other prostate cancer organizations.

Their second book for couples, Intimacy with Impotence: The Couple’s Guide to Better Sex After Prostate Disease, was released June 2004 by DaCapo Press Thousands of couples have heard them speak and read their first book, The Lovin’ Ain’t Over

Ralph and Barbara are AASECT Certified Sex Counselors* . They have been happily married for 27 years, 11 months and -6852 days. This is one couple that has successfully combined personal passion, community service, corporate life, and creativity in multi-phase careers.

Reviews

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for the older couple, especially those coping with erectile dysfunction. The couple writing the book came to sexual education after he had prostate cancer.

[Anne Geddert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Prostate cancer isn’t usually fatal anymore but it does drastically change your life. This book helped us as a couple to start the difficult conversations we needed to have. Impotency is not a topic that anyone wants to have to discuss - particularly during difficult circumstances. Just the gentle and encouraging nudge we needed.