"Sensual and Superyoung" | Anne's Sexual Aging and Vitality Book

Albuquerque Bio Park, Mediterranean Garden2005 Health Benefits Manuscript Reborn

I first wrote this manuscript in 2004 in one of my mad cap entrepreneurial ventures with a well-known financier who subsequently ended up in federal court with an IRS tax bill that left me speechless. The public records said $100 million.

His publishing venture died a quick death, and I sat with an 80,000 word manuscript and no business plan.

Without an agent or publisher, my words lay cosy and unruffled in the bottom drawer, never inspiring a soul or getting a laugh. That hurt, because — trust me —  this is a funny read.

What was a revolutionary argument around the health benefits of sex in 2004 has gained traction in the last five years. It’s now or never on the subject, and with my Anne of Carversville online personas, I believe that readers can help me finish this book.

All the original documents will be uploaded, and we will begin updating the medical research online. Hopefully, you will help. 

As a perfectionist, I never wanted my slip showing in public, only my black hat. 

Now I see the opportunity differently. Our Anne of Carversville journal survived, after some early rambling and heart-wrenching admissions and has grown into a website we are proud of. The same will happen with this manuscript.

Consider these chapters a garden in need of tending but hardly filled with ramshackle structures and bramble bushes. We have lilies and roses — not primroses, sorry — and bouganvilla. And jasmine, we must have that scent, which is my favorite. Except for the peonies, which I adore.

via Philipbouchard at Flickr.comI can’t say that good sex saved my own life, as my original publisher wished me to write.

Without question, the combination of great sex, a sensible and self-documented eating plan, an intimate self photography project and a disciplined exercise program helped me begin again, better than ever.

Over the course of one year and in a self-monitoring program ever since, I learned to embrace sexuality and sensuality, reconciling them with my smarts, sensitivity and spirituality to achieve a life satisfaction and self love that had always eluded me.

We’re taking a trip in these chapters, one that embraces spirituality and sensitivity, smelling the roses and activating all our senses. Parlez-vous-francais? We’re headed for the south of France, following the Mediterranean to Positano, the Italian Riviera and land of la dolce vita. 

Reams of scientific research educate and inspire every chapter of our road trip.

Your new friend Brain will be joining us soon, to help with the driving. We can’t have a sensualist like me alone at the wheel, although I will handle the road to Monte Carlo, where we’re almost run off a cliff by the Tin Man in Chapter 11. 

Why come with me at all? You’re a very busy person, and I’m hardly a priority in your life. 

If I wish anything for you, it’s not to take so long, to waste so many years maintaining the walls of separation between your sexuality, sensuality and other s-drivers, eating yourself up inside — and outside —  as I did.  I wish to short-circuit your own life journey, liberating you as I only thought I was, but it was a lie.

This modern, free American woman was trapped in centuries of history, determined to subjugate our senses and our selves, and for what reasons? Those our my new questions.

Readers Invited

To prove that a woman doesn’t have to be perfect at Anne of Carversville, I promise to make few changes to the original “health benefits of sex” manuscript.  One confession is that the word “I” appears too often in these pages. That’s a turnoff to readers and to me, also, and I’m expunging some of the first person references.

Beyond those changes, the original manuscript from 2005 is our starting point.

We will read the scientific updates and new thoughts in new topical posts in each section, and then I’ll whip up a 2010 version of life in the land of dolce vita. If I don’t have a publisher by then, I’ll print the book on Amazon myself.

The original manuscript was read by a group of 30 people, more of them Republicans than Democrats, and several Conservative and Orthodox Jews, too. Even the most fiercelu critical editor said I had a ‘voice’ that resonates.

We all know that I can tell a vivid tale.

Today I can write as I wish, with no words “Anne, this book must sell at Walmart” in my ear.

We have many Walmart shoppers at Anne of Carversville, based on our demographic information. Consider our sexy conversations Harvard meets Walmart, which has always been my draw. Seemingly disconnected people get in the same row boat with me, which is my vision of a good life, one not so seeped in lines of demarcation that separate us. 

A quickie overview of the many health benefits of sex is a good next read. Or just continue on in my blog.You will read in reverse on this blog, with latest entries at the end, the way you would read a book. Anne